any serious type websites dealing with the politics in this country?

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Are there any serious type websites dealing with the politics in this country other than "Irish Politics" which i dont particularly like.
 
dewdrop said:
Are there any serious type websites dealing with the politics in this country other than "Irish Politics" which i dont particularly like.
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Dewdrop

I am not being smart here. But what do you not like about politics.ie? What would you like to see in a "serious type" website?
 
Hi Brendan...perhaps i am old fashioned but i dislike crudity which often appears on Politics. For example there is a reference to Paul Galvin on the Late Late show which i would not use. But then maybe i am out of step with modern Ireland especially in view of the popularity of the Rubberbandits.
 
Hi dewdrop

We have a zero tolerance policy towards bad language on askaboutmoney. I think this is unusual on the web?

You could make the suggestion on politics.ie if that is the only drawback? I am not sure how you would get on, but it's worth a try. I suspect that if you want to get into political debates, you are going to get crudity, incivility, abuse etc. Political debate tends towards that.

it's very easy to set up a discussion forum. How about www.cleanpolitics.ie as a name? You could copy the Askaboutmoney posting guidelines, but I am not sure how many users you would get. It's cheap and it's fun trying.
 
The foul language on politics.ie is a symptom rather than a cause. To use a technical analogy, the signal-to-noise ratio is very low. About 1 in 10 posts contains something useful and relevant, and you have to wade through a whole pile of dross to find it.
 
But isn't that the nature of political discussion? Most of it is dross. Isn't most of Letting Off Steam dross?

If you ask a practical question on askboutmoney about tax relief on education expenses, the signal to noise ratio will be around 9:1.

Could you have a website for political discussion where you could only discuss the ideas and not the politicians? It wouldn't be much of a website.
 
Thanks for all the replies especially reference to Politics on Boards. I think i will confine myself mainly to AAM so that my sensitivities will not be offended!
 
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