The fact that that post was taken action against and so few others in that thread were only serves to reinforce a culture of bad faith bait-posts designed to just get people to drive-by snipe at each other instead of try to make serious, thought-provoking posts to further a deeper discussion about current events instead. You can post in a thread 40 times doing nothing but selectively quoting other people's posts and going out of your way to avoid directly seriously engaging with anyone but if you make a long, sincere post that might make people re-evaluate themselves in ways they dislike or find uncomfortable, you're way more likely to get in trouble for it, or at least, the punishment is far more likely to be severe than constantly de-railing threads in exactly the same way over and over again.
It sucks and makes me want to stick to the gaming side of Era because as someone interested in politics it is completely repelling to try and engage with politics now that the 2020 election is heating up and only see exactly the same kinds of circular arguments with posters that just dislike each other over and over again. These threads are infested with people motivated by personal dislike of other posters trying to rile them up instead of caring about what any of the topics are.
