Like most other people I use the internet mainly for work. Also for researching holidays and restaurants. I think you will find that people find many similar and other ways to use the internet that do not involve ‘opinions.’ The differences between people’s motivations for being here are...
I think you fail to understand the users of the forum. Most people do not spend their time in echo chambers directed by algorithms, regardless of what you firmly believe, because most of us do not form our views from Internet forums, Twitter or whatever else.
That is also true. I still think politics brings out the very worst in a number of posters and turns people away from the forum in general. There are so many other nasty corners of the internet for certain posters to inhabit if they wish. They often forget or are unaware that many posters on NSC...
None of the above. There are lots of topics discussed on NSC by decent people with one main shared interest. Unfortunately the forum is let down by its political content. Banish that alone to a sub forum and I reckon the nastier posters would go elsewhere.