About a year and a half ago we used to have quite a bit of fuss with religious and political threads. There was a fairly big push by Kryo which assumedly was at Stardock’s bequest to try and tone down these threads and the overall grief that they cause. There were requests to take such threads to Joe User and although nothing much really seemed to happen, gradually over time it seemed things quieted down.

Now suddenly, and apparently in conjunction with the restructuring of the forums, we seem to be inundated with this stuff all over again. Kryo mentioned that he wasn't even sure which site these topics are coming from.

People usually say that if you don't like it then just don't participate but that's not really a fair suggestion. These things sprout a life of their own and like a train wreck it can often be difficult to look away. I honestly and truly find most of these topics as offensive as pornography and simply wish to not have to be subjected to these threads.

This has been suggested many times before and for much the same reason as I'm repeating this suggestion now. All that would be necessary is for the Off Topic forum to be something that someone would have to explicitly select to view. When viewing https://forums.galciv2.com simply exclude the Off Topic forum from the Recent Posts lists unless that forum is selected.

I and many others like me come here to talk, and listen to others talk, about GC2. I don't mind if things like the Sins forums were mixed in with GC2, at least there is some relationship; however these religious and political threads are ridiculous. I certainly don't come here to listen to someone else's religious beliefs or to talk about what opinions or lack thereof I may hold on the subject. I couldn't care less about what someone thinks about intelligent design or any of that crap. I suggest that anyone that brings up such a subject is simply doing their best to cause grief. I'm disappointed that someone like TGE would even start such a thread, the only purpose of which is the basest level of trolling.

There is nothing good that can come from such threads only bad. So for the sake of what's left of these forums please just let's not have that stuff here.