Actually, let me edit this:

Three questions to answer:

1: Why do you come to the politics forum?
2: What would the ideal politics poster come to this forum in order to do?
3: What are the goals of a forum related to political issues?  What is the forum attempting to achieve?  Hell, what does communication about political issues hope to achieve?

I just like trolling Flint.. Is that so wrong?

I'm 23 and have been coming here since I was 15-16. It's a habit, really.

> Petrolstone wrote:

> I come to laugh at all the people who are so full of themselves that they believe people are actually listening to them. I rarely read posts, and if I do it's only the first one. I only open topics with interesting titles or big likely made up words such as "metadebating".<

What this crakca said.

I'm here to chew fat, and kick ass.  And i'm all out of ass to kick.

1: Why do you come to the politics forum?

I come because I am worried about my nation, the ignorance of the world, and I see corruption on such scales as to boggle the mind.

2: What would the ideal politics poster come to this forum in order to do?

The ideal poster would be one seeking education and knowledge and/or giving education and knowledge.

3: What are the goals of a forum related to political issues?  What is the forum attempting to achieve?  Hell what does communication about political issues hope to achieve?

My hope is to reach some people, stop them from being drones. By showing individual aspects are broken, or that the whole is broken for failed ideologies.

4: What do you contribute to the Politics forum through your presence here?

I am life to this forum. I am the only remaining true poster to it, and the only ex-elected political figure who is actively posting, the only true politician on here.

I made this forum from the emptiness of no posts, and sadly I think it dies when I leave.

In this forum, I am the Alpha and the Omega, second only to God and the Trinity above who knows all but never posts (here?).

Flint, you are so full of shit... so so full of shit...

Also to answer Zarf's questions

1: Why do you come to the politics forum?
I started coming many moons ago on the grounds that there would be discussion and debate about real life issues and concepts, however over the years that has changed to laughing at the rediculous ideas people put forward and the closemindedness of many of the participants, many appear to have no real world experiance despite what they say sometimes...

2: What would the ideal politics poster come to this forum in order to do?
Ideally a poster would come to discuss, debate and shape the concept of the world. People would be openminded and subject to comprimise and changes of oppionion with the application of ordered reason and logic, such that a topic being debated/discussed could have a definite end, not a flame war. Even if the end was that two sides acknowledged the validity of the opposite argument, but agreed that they were both equally valid.

3: What are the goals of a forum related to political issues?  What is the forum attempting to achieve?  Hell, what does communication about political issues hope to achieve?
A debate and discussion on an issue to explore the various viewpoints and thoughts on that concept using logic, reason and personal experiance. An end point would be as above, a victor, a comprimise or a respected truce.

4: What do you contribute to the Politics forum through your presence here?
Currently? Not much, though no one here contributes anything, save maybe Zarf. I respect the idea that Zarf is trying to reach and agree, as such I try and contribute positivly in things that Zarf has tried to steer in a good direction...

1: Why do you come to the politics forum?

Learn something about politics.

2: What would the ideal politics poster come to this forum in order to do?

Learn something about politics.

3: What are the goals of a forum related to political issues?

Provide a venue for people to learn something about politics.

What is the [politics] forum attempting to achieve? 

Attract people who want to learn something about politics.

Hell, what does communication about political issues hope to achieve?

In general, communication about political issues aims to either facilitate change  or maintain status quo.

4: What do you contribute to the Politics forum through your presence here?

I contribute ideas.

30 topics a page, 36 pages. Total topics is about 1260. Of that I am responsible for 211 topics. I also contributed to 18 pages worth of political discussions.

Since I left there had been very few posts at all and fewer topics. Since my return... well count for yourself how active it hsas become.

Without me, without JA, without Black_wing this forum does nothing.

Eliminate Black_Wing and my topics and 400ish topics go poof. Of the remaining I fully expect 100 others to be from that one time super supporter of Obama (forgot his name), 150ish to be from Chris and the rest to be from about three dozen others.

There is nothing left when I leave, there was nothing left after I previously left, and this forum does not do anything anymore.

Nope, when he left 1/3 the activity went soon after.

@Flint: You've gone for QUANTITY over quality again, that's their problem

1: Why do you come to the politics forum?
  I come to the politics forum to watch people "discuss". Sometimes I post things I think may start a discussion, but that rarely goes the way I thought it would. Sometimes I think that is because I have a point and people wantn to blunt that point.
Mostly I come to gape at the egos so massive they have their own gravitational pull, at the house of cards balanced on its end, and to giggle as you all go ape[poo] at Decimus AGAIN because you STILL don't get him.

2: What would the ideal politics poster come to this forum in order to do?
  To do things like: To draw attention to the crap job President X is doing and discuss how he could do better, to discuss the reasons behind war Y and what is happening in war Y and the end of war Y, to DISCUSS the wrongs of society, the things that trouble us...
...Ancient Greek stuff.

3: What are the goals of a forum related to political issues?  What is the forum attempting to achieve?  Hell, what does communication about political issues hope to achieve?
  Intelligent Discussion. Agreement. Broadening of horizons. Basically anything other than feeding each other hemlock (pressing issues, VCPR).

4: What do you contribute to the Politics forum through your presence here?
  I am a bastion of blunt..... anyone remember how that went?