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Originally Posted by Lallous  Dear members,
For our members who became inactive, what is it that you lack to start participating again? Are you disabused from Lebanese politics, this forum, both? Please share your insights.
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Since last spring, my activity on the forum decreased to a degree where thisthe only thread I can remember having more than 1 post is the US election thread (where I updated). I also was surprised that moderators are using their members/ names now so I guess you can call me inactive. A lot of the reasons for that inactivity are personal: traveling to Lebanon, moving, career, other interests... But even before that I rarely contributed to the political forum and stuck with the CF.
The problem with the political forum is simple. You can take any thread, read the title or the opening post, close your eyes, think for 10/20 seconds and predict 90% of what will be said in that thread. What's worse is that you can predict who will say what. Even worst is that you can guess who will thank who. Obviously part of the problem is fatigue/spending too much time here before (and you can't influence that). The other part is that, for all the bragging about the 16000 members, the discussion here is between a closed circle of people who keep running the same arguments. Most of these people have created a very narrow line of thinking and support and act as a team in cheer-leading their own and marginalizing and chiding and bullying the other. There is obviously great interest in preserving these members because of a) their level of activity and b) the fact that they keep this an "FPM" forum* but for this to remain a "forum" in the first place i.e. a place to discuss ideas they can't be allowed total domination. That was supposed to be solved by therules. The problem is that they spent too much time to learn to do whatever they want without circumventing the rules (as said before by Tai and Jl). The very few members who don't agree with FPM and keep coming back do it because of a dedication bordering on addiction.
*I would argue from an extremely subjective point of view that there's too much HA forum in the FPM forum. But that's just my opinion.