I was referring to political threads only (this is somewhat subjective, sure), and keeping news /current events in FreeOnes Talk. I personally have nothing against political threads - just discussing the idea.
Try this: create a new section for political threads.
In 30 days, there will be less than a handful of regular contributors, or (more likely) the section will be vacant.
But that's just it! I open saying "I'm sorry for your loss" or something like that ... then they counter with "Thank you for coming".
At this point I'm fresh the fuck outta ideas! :shock: