I think the site has gotten to big for us to go back to even the level of civility we had before the political forum was closed. If you assume the same percentage of people who can't keep things civil or refrain from really inappropriate comments, we'd now have maybe 50% more fire starters, which would be way too much to police. It's too bad the politics forum never took off, because it was a great idea. Its failure is why I worried Lambeau Leap wouldn't work, because it seems people just aren't going to go to two different sites. The politics site seemed to be maybe 20% of those of us who like to talk politics, and only a few of us seemed to go there every day. The only idea I had to make the site more visible is to sticky the link to the politics forum and allow people to post that they've started a discussion over there, but not allow the discussion to take place in that thread. I'm really going to miss graduate school, since it has given me a civil and fairly-intelligent "politics forum" in real life. All I'll have when I leave is listening to Mike Gallagher on the drive to work and making wise-mouth comments back to my radio. At least the popularity of bluetooth headsets has made it more acceptable to appear that you're talking to yourself in your car.