polite discussion from the 1980s... you likely won't find much of that here. Some... but not a ton.
That's what I'm looking for, indeed. It doesn't look too promising so far. But thank you for your honesty.
The good side of this forum, is that you never have to worry about the moderators messing with you. I've been on other forums, where simply having an opinion moderators didn't like, resulted in your posts being deleted or censored, or even temp bans.
And that's why I'm still here. I've determined it is better to have a nearly free-for-all forum, where I can say what I want, and just place people who never have anything but bitterness and hate, on my ignore list.
I was on another forum years ago, and there was a lot less spam and trolling... but when I respond, it takes me 20 minutes to an hour to write one response, especially if the issue is complex. On those other forums, they would say I was "Micro-agressing", and delete the post. Well crap, I'm not doing that. The smallest, even entirely unintentional mistake, and 20 minutes of writing, and researching an answer is deleted? That sucks man.
I don't know where in this country, you can still have open free-speech debate, that remains civil. Pretty sad. But for me, I'll stay here, where at least I can say what I want.