Why?
More user control of their own posts fits in with my understanding of that term.
Semi-grunch
Is it even an available feature?
This is not practical, but the biggest reason I donāt post here more is the mega threads that basically lose focus. Like I usually have 10-30 min at a time to kill and want to get up to date on the latest political news, so reddit and twitter are just better for finding focused discussion on what has happened today and not people talking about more long term issues. At the end of the day, we donāt have the user base to have constant discussions of the latest trending topic,so itās not really fixable. For the most part, I think this place is decent for what it is, which is more slow paced discussion with a smaller number of people that you get to āknowā more than on twitter/reddit. Itās just not usually what Iām looking for.
The other issue is posters like anachronistic and Victor who IMO are abusive and mostly content free. I ignore them but they unfortunately still clog up threads. I wish more people would just ignore them, but being community based cuts both ways and others can engage with them if they want. So I donāt have a solution there either.
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Come join us for a Walrus or two. We are a community thatās as much or more about Walrus as politics 
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Megathreads suck. I donāt go near them.
I am learning to dislike them. I used to love them precisely because they required me to check in so often in order to keep up. I was never bored. But now keeping up with them feels like an obligation, and good lord what a timesuck, so I just accept that I will check on them from time to time and end up skipping hundreds and hundreds of posts in order to see where the discussion is currently at.
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Iām 2000 posts behind on the Trump thread and I donāt give a shit!
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If you fall behind just read the 20 most recent posts and youāre good.
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Click the post number at the bottom right and you can select which day you want to skip to.
Tomorrow
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Hello, Iād like to revisit this:
Iād like to try to resolve the question of whether or not Iām allowed to post in this forum.
I doubt Iād ever be a very frequent poster; I wasnāt in the old forum, and Iām not even in P&S. But I do spend a fair amount of time reading threads here, and I enjoyed participating in the Programming thread, Lapkaās thread, and making the occasional political comment.
The reason Iāve changed my mind about resolving this is just that it seems clear from all the other ongoing hostilities that arguing about me isnāt going to destroy this forum. It was probably way too egotistical of me to have ever worried about it.
So, I have no idea how it should be resolved. Smaccās suggestion is fine by me, but itās not up to me. Iām just looking for some moderator to tell me if Iām allowed to post here or not, on whatever basis they want.
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A mod isnāt going to tell you that - thatās not their role here. Have you been paying attention? 
This is fair enough, and in the absence of smaccās post I would have just kept doing what I was doing. But since a moderator has said that there should be some community-driven process to resolve the question, and since I short-circuited that process myself, it doesnāt seem right not to present myself for judgement now, as it were.
I canāt imagine you posting will be the thing that finally kicks us into establishing some sort of ban procedure so as long as youāre fine with petty snipes after every post thereās nothing stopping you.
Posting is a human right. Never ask permission.
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LOL at banning well named, wtf. As long as heās not looking for another Petri dish subforum to grow fash cultures in, I donāt see the issue.
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Agree with geewhysee at least in as much as you shouldnāt ask permission. It definitely shouldnāt be put on Smacc to decide (I doubt very much that heād want to do that). And I strongly support your being allowed to post.
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How do we know this isnāt exactly what heās doing?
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I guess weāll just have to play his little gameā¦ for now.