# Politics Folder?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-folder/463045>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-folder/463045 "2008-09-11T01:21:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-folder/463045/1 "2008-09-11T01:21:45Z")

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Could we please have a political folder/forum? The political threads have a way of being highly contentious and heated, and mucking up the fora.

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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-folder/463045/2 "2008-09-11T01:34:07Z")

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Mods - Add my support for a Politics Forum, and please close this one down, as there are 10^23 existing threads asking about a Politics Fora.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-folder/463045/3 "2008-09-11T14:13:45Z")

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It is the Silly Season, isn’t it?

And it will pass soon, but not soon enough, I’m afraid.