bfslick50 posted... From the end of the last topic...
Literally everything you said is wrong.
No one's first board is the Politics board. I was on this site close to 10 years before I knew there was a Politics board. Realpolitick was even more obscure. The presence of Realpolitick is not prominent enough to scare away new users.
If political discussions were scaring away new users then you should not want political discussions on any prominent board, which definitely includes Current Events.
Your biggest error is treating newer younger users as a monolith. There are more teenagers organizing anti-gun violence marches and other political movements than there were in my generation. It's certainly not the majority, but there has always been some young people that talk politics, and this generation has a bit more than normal. There's a shit ton of boards allowing them to find their own interests. Those that like politics can find their way there and those that don't could go elsewhere. Of course, they're all going elsewhere. Chasing away a sizeable portion of the existing user base isn't going to be the key to make young people suddenly want to come here.
Current Events absolutely should not be a politics board.
Throw this essay in the trash.