Was politics & religion section killed by design or just incompetence?

A long time ago, digital point had a very active politics & religion section which attracted a lot of users and was also quite active but then the moderators got involved with their infractions and killed that sections. It was a quite sad situation when some moderators could not separate between their role in moderating the forum and trying to censor different people. Before you could see 5 new post under 1 minute while now you are lucky to see 5 posts during the whole day. Since most forums strive after users and activity in their forum, I was wondering if there was a decision to kill that section or was this just the result of incompetence?

 

Its just because no one wants to waste their time there...

Its a webmaster forum and NOT something related to religions.

 

I asked and the general thinking is that people got tried of moderators getting too involved and censoring the discussions, that is the reason I am wondering if it was by design or incompetence.

 

I always thought that the function of moderators and infractions is to make a forum better and not to kill it. It seems some of your moderators are like the surgeon who claimed that the surgery was done perfectly and the only problem was that the patient died.

 

Don´t you think there is something wrong with the rules or more likely the execution of the rules when it causes the users to leave? What is the point of forum that nobody posts in it? Even from the business point of view, is it a good business model to alienate the users and make them leave?

 

The small P&R forum probably after absence and buy&sell sections has the highest number of posts which means users are interested. As I understand this forum makes money by advertising, so probably higher number of user and more frequent users should translate to higher advertising revenue. If an ice cream shop has different type of ice cream but the highest selling kind is strawberry and lemon, do you thing the shop owner should remove the lemon choice because he thinks lemon doesn´t taste good and people who like lemon taste are stupid? Humans are not one dimension creatures and I am sure not even the most dedicated professionals can think about google adsense or seo optimization 24/7.

 

That part of the forum is not dead. It's simply devoid of the people who could not contribute anything of value.

I know you think it's dead or dying since you were banned again, but the reality is, it's quiet, calm and filled with a lot less useless clutter.

If you could behave you're certainly welcome to be a part of that discussion.

 

Obviously you don´t mia, he has never said anything of value in his life, LOL.

 

Why is it a personal attack? If I post Bush was a lousy president with below average IQ, is that also a personal attack or stating my opinion?

 

So as a general rule you can not mention how stupid someone is no matter what kind of nonsense they post, got it. How about to show the stupidity of someone posts just by quoting their posts together without actually saying it? I once quoted someone posts from different time in just one post without adding anything so people can have laugh and it was removed and I got an infraction. Is this correct that showing someone stupidity without even saying it is also against the rules?

 

It's true that when I've been banned was because of posts in this section, also that's where you can easily get negative points from other people, so I've learned my lesson and only sometimes go there when I feel like it.
But those two topics are clearly the ones not to be discussed in family reunions or at workplace, that's not just a coincidence..

It's good that DP has this section, but I can't say it is interesting, just fun. And yes it would be nice to be allowed to insult and make personal attacks, but it doesn't go well with Adsense rules, so I understand that it's not a free for all section of the forum, or it would need to be without adsense on it, and so better remove it altogether.. It's a dilema for the admin.. Well easily resolved since adsense money is better than a wasting web resources just for I don't know what exactly..

 

I think you've kinda answered all your own questions.

 

According to me the P&R section of DigitalPoint is the most useless part.
It's filled with people making personal attacks and acting like childs when you disagree with them.
If it dies off then so be it, there are hundreds of other forums that are more geared thowards those
discussions, so maybe you should just switch forum?

Everyone on DP should follow the rules, whether it's in the P&R section or in the SEO section.
And complaining about infractions wont get you far.