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It is not going to be possible to stop people from starting political threads or diverting existing threads in political directions. (And yes, DDB, I'm afraid that I do see you as more part of the problem than the solution.) One thing you could do is take a "Nicoll Pledge" such as was seen in rasfw once upon a time -- no more than n political posts a day, with n fairly small.