# Who's missing that you really want to see on the Board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010 "2020-07-02T01:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1130
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1130 "2025-09-04T17:35:52Z")
I understand. After the election, I was reducing my news-input (avoiding doom scrolling), and participation in some of the more heated P&E threads. Though that didn’t _quite_ work out as expected. Still, that’s why I created a thread a while back, now quiescent, to talk about it and/or what people are doing otherwise to cope. So I’ll link it if other people want to talk about it and not take the thread too far off topic. > [@Are you posting less? Is it because of the way the world is? Well, let's fix that!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-posting-less-is-it-because-of-the-way-the-world-is-well-lets-fix-that/1018456): > > A few days ago, I was exchanging DMs with another poster (they know who they are, but I won’t @ them without their permission!) and we were talking about how it seems everyone was posting less these days. I felt (and they concurred) that a lot of us were emotionally wrung out over the outrages going on in the USA and our limited ability to do anything about them. I know that outside my responsibilities, I have spent less time in P&E as a result. No, I need to know, but emotional fatigue is a … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010)._