Originally Posted by FTv3

For the most part, political talk is relegated to the political section which can easily be unfollowed so none of that shows up on your feed. Moderators, however, are slow to move the rare thread to politics section that creeps in. I suspect, with zero evidence, that they see relatively low traffic in the politics section and allow the rare flyer to ride for more viewership. Eg, “you’re fired thread.” No fun bashing the lefties when no one is watching.

I’m against the blocking feature. I get the allure but you miss out when these people make valid points or provide valuable insights. Take feet swift for example. When it comes to union business and union 101, he knows what he is talking about. Too bad he is more interested in being a maga spin doctor - if he spent half his time and energy explaining union stuff we’d all be better off.

Sideshow has been around the block too and knows his stuff. I wouldn’t block either of these guys if I had the chance, though the endless political drivel always blaming the same people for everything under the sun is long past getting old.

BK might be someone I’d consider, only because he says the same thing over and over, derails threads, rarely has a coherent thought, and baselessly attacks our EB. Every once in a while he makes a good point though. Still, I think we’d be better off without his participation.

AI will offer the solutions we need: settings to mute someone’s political posts, hiding the bickering / pointless back and forth strings between two people, etc. Ie., you don’t block people entirely, just filter the crap out.

Im in the camp that retirees should be free to post. I don’t think anyone, active or retired, should be posting about religion or politics on the B&G. Plenty of places they can do that, no need to bring it into the workplace.