My experience was not a lie. It was what I experienced around 25 years ago, sometime between 1996 when I got my first computer, 2 years of posting poetry and reading political threads, and having to find a different board when NYTimes newspaper forums closed down due to angry political back and forth stuff (which I didn't enjoy reading, by the way.) Time Magazine had equally good forums, minus the genius poets I admired at NYT Forums, and after a while, Time threw in the towel too, because they had a magazine to operate, and their employees grew tired of trying to make peace between stubborn politicoes on their website. I don't remember all the details, except Time explained it as a real problem for cleaning up their boards with people who wrote articles for their magazine were likely not able to stop the way mean people were beating up on each other over politics, and their magazine readers who subscribed to their periodicals likely voiced their dis-enchantment.