I never seen a single religion or political thread last longer than 10 minutes on this forum without turning into pure hate and baiting. This community isn't mature enough to handle these kinds of discussion. Did you see that age poll? Around 40% of us are young teenagers, which the next highest group being mid-teenagers. People of that age don't really know shit about religion or politics and what's really going on in the world. If there was an age limit to posting in such threads, maybe then the older more mature member of the forum could discuss topics like this without it turning into a hate-fest. (or at least delay it from happening for a lot longer). These threads were banned on the old forum for a reason, and I quite happy about that. Now it seems like political and religion threads take up half the front page at any given moment and there are dozens of pure bait threads every day that continue to get made since is no consequence of doing so. The mods were much more strict back in the day, but some things they needed to be strict on. The rules are too loose now, and the sheer about of pure garage and hate that comes out of this forum on a daily basis is just sicking. There is a medium between before and now that should allow for less strictness than B.Old, but allows threads that just breeding grounds of idiocy to be shutdown.