Update:
Back on topic, I've spent the past couple of hours dredging every last political thread from the depths of Mainstream News and moving them to the new Politics Forum. I'm sure that most of you would be astounded by the number of such threads, some dating back to 2002.
For a long period of time, we didn't really bother merging a lot of chat or mainstream news threads, so I've done my best to combine many of them into larger threads with more general titles, especially the considerable number of threads which ran to only two or three posts, the first of which was typically a quoted article or extract. I am not blind to the fact that large threads are cumbersome and uninviting, but our priority is to reduce the footprint of politics on the search function and new post list and this will further that purpose.
I've no doubt that some of you will howl that more specific topics require their own dedicated threads, but I've had to be hardheaded about the matter: the decision has been taken to condense (not end) political discussion, and this is one necessary step in the process. I want to stress that not a single post has been deleted in any of these moves and merges--nor will one be.
Accordingly:
- If you cannot find a familiar thread, it will now have been subsumed within another, associated thread. The Politics forum is currently only a couple of pages long and the thread titles have been simplified in order to make content clear. It should, therefore, be straightforward to locate what you want. If you still cannot locate the topic you were discussing, a search of your own content via 'profile' will turn it up in no time.
- We'd be very grateful if you would browse the existing thread titles in the politics forum before starting a fresh thread on a topic; in many cases the topic you wish to discuss will be capable of being added to an existing thread. By doing so you will be saving the moderators additional work--which we would appreciate.
Comments or complaints on this thread or Via PM if necessary.
Thanks for your patience.