Is most drama on forums due to political debate?

[Shawn Gossman]

Do you think most drama on forums today is derived from political debate?

Let's face it, social media is a cesspool when it comes to human aggression and it's 99.999% because of people getting triggered over someone else's political opinion.

Are you finding that is it the same on forums these days?

 

[AWS]

Or religion. Other then that I've haven't see any other topic almost immediately become heated. Unless you visit a forum software site and mention a competing product. Then the fanboys fangs come out.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Or religion. Other then that I've haven't see any other topic almost immediately become heated. Unless you visit a forum software site and mention a competing product. Then the fanboys fangs come out.

I still see a lot of that.

I bet you anything there are a few people who will not join my Off Topic Forum solely because it's vBulletin. LOL. Silly but it's their grief.

 

[AWS]

I bet you anything there are a few people who will not join my Off Topic Forum solely because it's vBulletin. LOL. Silly but it's their grief.

It sure is. LOL

 

[Tracy]

Politics, religion and sexual choices... the three things that can kill a thread in a heartbeat.

 

[Tracy]

Then the fanboys fangs come out.

You don't even have to mention a competing package... just mention where their favorite one developers walks on their crank regularly with their closed mind choices and how they could be improve it.

 

[frm]

I'm still on the fence about adding politics to my general discussion forum.

It's been so divisive lately, and Frankly, I got tired of it over the past 5 years being involved in everything that I (which might be unfair to the community) don't want to see it.

It's also tempting to fact check people, spending so much time to do so, when I know they're not going to believe it because they operate on emotion over facts.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I'm still on the fence about adding politics to my general discussion forum.

It's been so divisive lately, and Frankly, I got tired of it over the past 5 years being involved in everything that I (which might be unfair to the community) don't want to see it.

It's also tempting to fact check people, spending so much time to do so, when I know they're not going to believe it because they operate on emotion over facts.

It's been okay for now on OTF and I even bait for controversial topics LOL but no major drama yet.

I have a hiking group on Facebook with about 46,000 members. I don't allow politics on it at all, LOL.

 

[Shortie]

I firmly believe that politics is one of the top reasons there is drama on forums. Of course, everyone is going to have a different opinion and we should respect that but you do get some that have the attitude of "if you don't agree with me you are wrong" and that is where the drama starts.

 

[gwolf666]

Not only in the forums, in absolutely any place you touch on the political topic, a debate is generated, it doesn't matter if it is with your friends, at the table with your family, on social networks like Facebook, x or Instagram, anywhere, anywhere. politics is touched upon, a huge debate is generated

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I think anything can be political, though.

It doesn't necessarily have to be who is running a country or what voting party you are for.

In reality, anything and all topics have politics to it. Allowing or disallowing political-themed debates is political in nature. The act of allowing it or not allowing it is political.

The debate against XenForo and vBulletin is political. Maybe not in the sense of world leaders have it's political in the sense of which is better and which is not based on user opinion.

That's the way I look at these situations. You may disallow political debate but other subjects are being debated in the exact same fashion, just different debate topics.

Some food for thought

 

[Tracy]

The debate against XenForo and vBulletin is political.

Not really. I would say more philosophical than political.
Sadly that is something that many still confuse. There is a difference between philosophy and political views. The two can be similar in many ways, but they are not the same.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Not really. I would say more philosophical than political.
Sadly that is something that many still confuse. There is a difference between philosophy and political views. The two can be similar in many ways, but they are not the same.

Insert "word" here. It's still the same concept as a political debate. People refuse to join forums because they use a specific software or refuse to support that company because of past practices.

People refuse to vote for that guy or use any business that supports him because of his past practices.

That's what I mean by every debate being political in nature.