In reply to Gordon Stainforth:
How did you get to demanding censorship? I said "ring fence the political stuff in the forums ... any appetite to put it into its own category?". ??????
I am asking only if there is appetite for a climbing website to focus, primarily, on climbing rather than, occasionally, being hijacked for coarse political debate. I do not think the UKC forums were a pleasant place to spend time in Nov/Dec ... it put me off the site for a while. Maybe I was in the minority?
Imagine new people to climbing (Imagine people that have been climbing for 20 years!). They google "climbing the UK" and rightly google gives them back UKC. I cannot imagine they turned up here thinking "I bet UKC will be a hot bed of political discourse". They probably came to the site hoping to read about climbing. Instead they found forums with a lot (not all) people screaming at one another and calling one another names. Nice!
I am only making the case that, at times, its felt that the balance of the forums slipped too far away from climbing, climbing life style, gear etc ... Maybe there is a case for re-balancing them?
Cheers.