Lately I’ve noticed an increase in political and news‑based posts. While these topics are interesting, they tend to shift the focus away from the core purpose of this forum—technology, engineering, and knowledge sharing.
To keep the community valuable for everyone, can we try to keep discussions aligned with tech‑related topics? This helps maintain quality, encourages meaningful conversations, and ensures new members know what to expect from the platform.
One of the best idea I’ve seen is slow mode which was applied on one of Political posts recently.
Emotions are the driving force in each and every part of society. Although, I would like to see the same being discussed but sadly. People are frustrated to their core. There is politics in tech too, some state sponsored, some region specific. It is all about the perspective.
Take intel’s case for example. US government’s involvement.
AI’s involvement in tech with the backing of different state sponsored companies driving the wheels of change.
The tech forums are progressing a little slower, but yes, the off-topic sections have a bit more steam in the current landscape
One of the primary reasons is that other than price hikes, Ramaggeddon, VRAM issues, “F” AI, etc., there is nothing much of note going on in the tech space
You cant have such discussions on reddit, if have contrary opinions to the mods, you have to lose the access of the platform forever. I am speaking from experience
I am recently part of those discussions here because I believe the community is mature enough, open to hear from others on topics and trust they are real everyday people who just happen to have different opinions.
I just treat it as a small time random banter with strangers on train or bus with no hard feelings for being wrong or right. You can’t get that on reddit.
Then occasional heated discussions do happen and people get into reddit mode. It is unfortunate but it is the reality of online forums.
If I find the thread too heated or getting too personal, I’ll try to just stop adding more fuel.
In the spirit of friendly banter among known acquaintances and keeping it clean, I suggest that political topics can be kept open for logged-in and subscribed members only to avoid attracting those who feel impulsive enough to create an account or login to reply to heated topics.
I used to be a bit aggrieved with these topics showing up in my feed and maybe even engaged in some. Now, I just open and mute what I do not wish to engage in.
I can write a lengthy page on this topic. But the crux of this platform is
It’s not more longer a tech forum. You can visit Plethora of other geek forums. Here is Bookmark - pending
IMO This is a closely knitted membership forum where you can freely discuss any idea within the socially accepted tone irrespective of view without the fear.
One member is openly sharing their personal issues in such a way that I haven’t even had this kind of discussion in my own family.
It’s better to thrive instead of die. I’m sure this platform will die if theme will be limited to technology only.
I do like some reddit subs with good moderation eg: r/contagiousLaughter or r/catastrophicFailure . But most of the mainstream subs are run over with bots and low-effort bait (rage or horny or empathy etc.) with zero context (or outright wrong context).
Insta / Facebook seem to always push horny content or useless content like gossip/controversies. It’s hard to find good communities there.
This forum is much saner and I know that I am talking to real people.
For content specifically, I have been waiting for tiktok to come back. I never got on it back in the days, and now that I want to, it’s banned I get the playstore ban, but I wish the web version worked at the very least.
I get the playstore ban, but I wish the web version worked at the very least.