PoliticalForum

There are serious problems with misinformation and conspiracy theories on PF. I would reasonably safe half of the threads are conspiracy theories at best, and down right propaganda at worse. This is of course, in violation of their own rules. The mods are capricious and don't seem to care. The worse comes from their "rules on slurs against groups of people". I have been the subject of multiple attacks because of who I am, and the mods do nothing about it. It's a joke, and if you go there you are putting yourself at risk of drowning in a cesspool of disease and vermin.

A great example of what is destroying the country: They are a loudspeaker for the insane and irrational, The rules are arbitrary. Most of the members are either mentally ill or incredibly stupid, or children. The place is chocked full of crackpots and conspiracy theories. There are some intelligent and reasonable people but most leave soon. I burned up a lot of time assuming good faith on their part, But eventually it became clear that there are no rules. The moderation is impulse based and random,

This place is loaded with people who are mentally ill. The average age must be 70 or more. Dementia runs rampant. The moderation is a joke. If the moderator doesn't agree with what you post and you haven't violated any rules, they just follow you around deleting your posts. It's ridiculous!

If you even question the mods you will receive an infraction which they carefully add up.
If your views are conservative and the liberals complain you will receive an infraction.
If you suggest that the police need to increase resistance against the rioters, you will receive an infraction for incitement to violence.
There is no free speech here.
It's like trying to have a serious dialogue in North Korea.
If the mods knew where you lived and had the power, I'm sure they'd be at your door to send you to a re-education camp.
And I'm barely exaggerating.

They will infraction you to death if you're conservative. What Rightwingers are given infractions for, they allow the Left to do it all day long and twice on Sunday. The forum Admin selects only Leftist moderators. Easy to tell.
She seems to take pride in socking it to non Leftists.

Saying "Republicans are idiots" is calling all republicans idiots. Saying all Republicans idiots like it or not, is 'free political speech', moderation has gone over the top.

From their posting rules: The rules regarding personal attacks extend not only to individual posters, but to groups as well. For example, calling all Republicans idiots is the same as calling every Republican on the board an idiot, and will not be tolerated.

Additionally pointless heckling trolls are allowed to troll with impunity to destroy the continuity of some threads yet not others, regardless of constantly reporting them to moderation, while I've witnessed legitimate debates being completely removed for reasons that border an infinite stretch of the imagination.

They have a dispute section that is there to give the impression your rebuttals are being handled fairly, regardless solid counterarguments get summarily ignored when their censorship tactics are proven to be in error.

I have posted at politicalforum.com for over a decade. I have been given a permanent ban after multiple strange events with the moderation team this year (2022). They have given me infractions where at first they claimed what I wrote was a "personal attack", but when asked to identify who was attacked and they cannot, they changed the infraction to "flame baiting". I would be fine if I was that type of member, but I have never been. I am all about content rich on topic posting, unlike much of their membership that want to make it about other members they disagree with. I've recently connected with other Conservative ex-members on another site that had similar bad experiences. I would not recommend the site to anyone looking for a fact filled, content rich debate on a topic. It's trash. The staff is sub par and frankly not intelligent... that's being nice.

They went as far as making my Profile Page locked. They have deleted my Profile Picture / Avatar. They have deleted my signature line. None of those elements had anything against the rules. I was an effective Conservative and I don't think that will be tolerated on the site going forward. It will become a wasteland, unless they make real changes with the staff.

I was on the forum for many years and was a very rare member being I'm not white. It used to be a very good political forum, even one of the best. But it changed to becoming as extreme white supremacist website and extremely pro-violence and advocacy of violence.

I was the last non-white member allowed on the forum and maybe only allowed for how long I had been there or because my not being white had not been mentioned for some time. Originally it was not a white supremacist forum. Now 100% of the staff is white, the owner is white and everyone on the forum is white. All non-whites have been purged from what I saw.

I was summarily banned after reporting a message that openly called for mass murder shooting of people who attend political protests. In response to reporting a message openly calling for mass murder, I was instantly banned with the only reason given was "rules violations." It did not specify whether I was banned for not being white or for opposing mass murder. Probably both.

The forum no longer follows the TOS whatsoever. No appeals of infractions or banning is allowed. The forum rules prohibiting advocating violence are completely ignored, as are most other rules. Basically, the forum should be called "White Male Terrorists R Us."

Stay away from Political Forum. Being on it could put you on a domestic terrorist watch list and on the no-fly list. You could find the FBI knocking on your door. Don't think you an hide behind an ID. On the surface it may seem just another political forum, but it's not. It is now a gathering place for white racists and trolls to gather, dangerously so.

Politicalforum.com increasingly openly calls for the murder, violent assault, other acts of terrorism, stalking, DOXing and harassment of Trump supporters, Republicans and conservatives. This is as severe as openly calling for mass murder shooting Republicans at rallies and protests. Such solicitations and advocacy of acts of domestic terrorism is highly illegal, both criminally and civilly.

We are seeking information about the owner and moderation staff of Debatepolitics.com to pursue appropriate legal action. If you know the identity of the owner or any forum staff member and any assistance would be appreciated.

Without or without a name, any detail information would be of assistance. Examples are age, birthday, geographic location, current or former employment, vehicle stated, any photograph of the person, relatives, friends or event attended, vacation and travel mentioned, any event they attended, physical description or any other personal information to assist in accurate identification. Even minor information can be decisively helpful to discovering accurate identification. For example, if known a person attended a certain event, it may be possible to learn who attended such event or photos of such event to do so. This reduces the search range. Other matters they posted in the past we find may narrow the possible identity to a few or only one. A photograph allows generally inquiring if anyone knows who this person and usage of facial recognition software.

We are not interested in the identity of other members or you. Any identification would be independently confirmed before publicly releasing such identity or taking any legal action.

This is a gravely serious matter and any assistance in identifying those involved would be helpful to stop online advocacy of violent attacks against people merely for exercising their democratic rights. Thank you.

As I said: this forum allows Holocaust Denial, allows Russian propaganda, allows Black and White racism, but not allows irony. My posts were deleted when I applied polite irony to some ridiculous claims.

They hate Muslims and they're so Islamophobic, we should investigate its members for suggesting Palestine is not a state or that LGBT Rights are more important than Human Rights and because Israel are LGBT Friendly means they have a right to murder Palestinians.

Politicalforum.com is a board that strongly supports the extreme right. It is supposed to be a debate board but is simply an orators board for the right. They don't even allow people to challenge the bias of the posters. It is a total waste of time to go there. If you want to get your right views supported, no matter if they are lies and can be proven as lies, become a member. They do expect you to contribute to the board, meaning it is also a board that supports those with money. It is not a board where knowledge, facts, statistics and truth have any meaning.

I gave it a 1 rating but the reality is that my rating of the board is a zero

While I agree that a modicum of civility is required, PF goes over board. When pointing out the logical fallacy of my opponents argument a moderator gave me a warning for insulting them. When I engaged with the moderator and gave them a link to the fallacy that was utilized, the moderator got upset. From there, the moderator would follow all of my posts in a stalking manner and either use their position to either bully me on the boards or hand out arbitrary warnings and possible band. The administration would do nothing about it.

Many people are leaving PF because of this type of behaviour, and this it is evolving to an echo chamber not worth the time.

I started on there and was temporarily banned for what I didn't think was a violation, but maybe I was wrong. Now I am permanently banned, and they offered no reason, other than a violation of rules.
I didn't think I did anything wrong, and was just talking with someone.
Then it just got worse.
The site is antisematic, and probably muslim.
They filter out people for the content of their conversations, not violations.

Their left leaning trolls will cry to the mods constantly if they don't like what you post (Kind of like in real life which is why they're called snowflakes!) I received an infraction for calling leftists 'fools' once. Didn't even direct it towards anyone. But you will notice that if you are right leaning, only left leaning mods will give you infractions or ban you. Stay away from this forum! It is pure Aids! You will waste too much of your time pointlessly arguing with trolls with easily hurt feelings & racist members that blame everything on white people. After being there few years, it's only been the same people that post there every day anyway. And it only gets worse when election season comes around! Block the site & don't waste any of your sacred time! You will only get aggravated & discriminated against!

Half of the Posters are Conspiracist or mentally ill. Many rejects from other boards. Threads in "Latest News"/News sections are very often Conspiracy links, followed 10 pages of responses, mostly from their fellow crazies. Probably only one in every 50 Conspiracy threads that are started, are moved to he Conspiracy section.
But even in Legit threads one has to wade through crap neck deep in insanity.
One Must assume the Hate/Loony Speech is APPROVED by the Owner, who may very well be one of them.

They claim no personal attacks are allowed, but I was Trolled and Personally Attacted after every post. Eventually the Moderators tracked a presued me everyday to add up points to keep me from replying to the attacks, after the Mods would do nothing. If you want an example of whats allowed at this Forum; simply go to the Threads created on January 11th 2018, when the Trump called countries A-Holes. Look at the ALL Members who were allowed to post anything they wanted with ZERO Moderation.

This site doesn't allow people to join. It never sends you a confirmation email, and there is no way to contact anybody to let them know this. I'm guessing it's because they want to discourage anybody from coming in and countering some of the bigotry and misinformation being posted by some of the people on the site. Don't waste your time here. There are better places to post.

Board policy states no personal insults, period. That takes some getting used to, and I got some infractions for it, being I was used to more of a free-for-all thing.

The upside to that? Banning insults removes about half of conservative trolling. They've still got their conspiracy theories, but their raging is greatly reduced if they can't go off on insult tirades.

The downside? They go sort of passive-aggressive on you. Instead of saying "You're a child molester!", which is not permitted, they'll say "Libtards are all child molesters", which gets around the no-insult rule, being it doesn't insult a specific person. So you do the same thing back, all sides dancing around the no-insult rule.

Same as every board, it has more than its share of right-wing conspiracy theorists who want to tell us all about their own special bizarre universe. I think the mods are a bit too hands off there, being they should move most of it to conspiracy theory folders. However, at least you don't get banned here for the crime of destroying nutty right-wing conspiracy theories, which puts this board way, way above USMB. And that's all we liberals really need, to not be censored.

Unfair, nasty treatment, idiotic accusations, warnings, harassment by moderators. When they see that your idea makes perfect sense, but it's anti-mainstream, trolls come out and start just going over and over write upsetting comments, when you complain about it, moderators put a blind eye, simply because my post was against mainstream and the troll is pro-mainstream. When you start responding to a troll on a same way, you start get warnings, bans, etc. So, they use such nasty ways to shut up people, wear you out and stop expressing your thoughts. All this harassment have brought me to an obvious thought that all the moderators and trolls are on a payroll of mainstream barons, who pay them to suppress people who are against the US mainstream ideology.

Their rules are very confusing, foggy and can be easily applied against you. For a strange reason, you can't discus moderators on your posts, for example, you post can be removed simply saying "moderator acted unfairly against me". Sometimes they remove all your post, on which you've spent hours writing. And when they remove it, they don't say what exactly was wrong and don't send your an original. Of course, they do that, when it goes against US mainstream ideology.

Recently I had a problem with posting for no obvious reason. The site suddenly started to require some kind of "confirmation" and like something was sent to my email, although nothing was received. I was still able to write messages to moderators, though. I've sent the messages to 4 of them, politely asking for help.
None of them responded, expect one, which didn't help either. I kept trying it for a week. No help, nothing. Then, as everybody would, I get pissed and said "why are you doing it, it's better to talk and discuss the political issues, instead of fighting wars" and that they've started to do all of this shi*t first. And for just saying that I was permanently banned.

Here is their message, which definitely show that their moderators are nasty, mean, and evil people. They will do everything to piss you off, upset, etc, just because you are against United States MAINSTREAM:

Just look what was their response: "You have been banned for the following reason: Previous history/Threatening 'war' against this site or staff/threatening sock creation/Permabanned on an administrative level "

So, they purposely turned everything upside down. PoliticalForum.com, I won't shut up, I will become even more active. All this behavior simply shows that US mainstream and establishment is EXTREMELY weak, losing their positions and they will fight you by all theses nasty means, instead of battle via honest and fair discussion. This will make my confidence even more stronger.

PS. Then the US society screams why there are mass shootings, why there is an opioid epidemic, why people elected Trump, the above moderator's and troll's behavior clearly explain why...

Apparently this site isn't for everybody, only privileged ones who are given information on how to get into "the club". WHERE you get this information is beyond me.

I tried to sign up and kept getting a message that a confirmation email was sent... one that I NEVER received. I used THREE DIFFERENT EMAIL ADDRESSES, and I never, NEVER received ONE confirmation email!

There is NO WAY to contact the admins, there is no help section or instructions for confirmation emails not working. There is NOBODY and NO WAY to contact anyone for help.

So, it's obvious you have to be "one of them" to get in. And after reading some of their bigoted, biased, toddler tantrums, it's a good thing I never got confirmed onto that juvenile site.

They aren't there for discussion, they are there for throwing toddler tantrums because they haven't gotten their way in politics.

DONT BOTHER!

This is a site full of anti semitic; the mods probably are since they let it run free and remove/attack people who stand up to the anti semitis

Typical "all inclusive" site that tends to lean liberal and has some bully mods. Very PC and highly moderated, with a PC bias. I was a long time member, and my assessment is objective.