re: Controlling threads on the Political Board

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The posters may even sort of believe in what they're saying, but when they think it's better to just drop sarcasm because it's funny rather than actually stopping to think and make a detailed response, then that's when the board becomes totally trivial and useless.

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Meh, I guess I see your point if you're talking about unsubstantitated one-line brush offs (and/or tl;dr rex;dr type stuff). I thought you meant snarky, dismissive attitudes. Most of the regulars on the board probably have a pretty good feel (positively or negatively) for most other regulars. And it seems that 95% of the debates on the board are re-treads. Probably leads to some of the snark.