Intr0vert wrote:The forum is filled with sexists. Just look at the amount of threads dedicated to rape and discussions about whether the victim made a false allegation, if it actually qualified as rape or sexual assault to begin with and whether the woman in question deserved because of her dress or behavior. The misogyny here is rampant. To top that off, the site is full of extremists......far left, far right and Islamic radicals who on any given day can be found discussing the list of persons they would like to torture, kill or be killed in far away lands. Women aren't really into this kind of blood lust and extremists will turn off many wishing to join. Hence why this forum is dead and has a very low number of active posters.
I think there is a lot of truth if this is taken as a critique of Political internet forums, rather than as a critique of PoFo. PoFo is very small when you consider that it has virtually no competition.
This is not the fault of Siberian Fox it is the inevitable dynamics of political internet forums. I'm sure lots and lots of men are put off not just women. On the particular issue of rape, no doubt rape threads provide an opening for misogyny, however there is a particular problem with rape in that most of the time it can not proved to the normal standards required of a criminal prosecution. In the wider world there's plenty of men hating feminists, but unsurprisingly they don't operate on this forum. Extremism on a political forum is inevitable even if its extremist defenders of the status Quo.
I have to say though for all its faults this forum certainly beats main stream political discourse, eg the BBC where 95% of the discussion is not about policy, and 90% of what is about policy is just politicians repeating their tiresome scripts.
Varax wrote:Yes, this forum is so dead which is why it's been active for over 10 years and has close to 3 million posts.
3 Million is a tiny number of posts for a world wide forum when you consider that FRS alone has 20,000 posts.