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1. Lori
   

   Can we have a compulsory .edu requirement to ensure only political scientists or people on academia post here? You could make the emails private so we still have anonymity, but it would eliminate 80% of the trash here.
   The site would be dead in two weeks

   Kirk wants the trolls. They are the only reliable traffic left to provide the meager number of impressions to banner ads. Who do you think posted links to PSR on right wing boards three years ago?

   This is true. Ever since the links made it those garbage sites, PSR has become increasingly useless for actual political science professionals. That said, I really do appreciate the fact that I don't have to go to VDARE anymore to see the pablum they feed to their know-nothing audience. It's all right here!

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2. Roly
   

   This is true. Ever since the links made it those garbage sites, PSR has become increasingly useless for actual political science professionals. That said, I really do appreciate the fact that I don't have to go to VDARE anymore to see the pablum they feed to their know-nothing audience. It's all right here!

   Lori won't tell you this, but she is part of the problem.

   4 months ago # QUOTE 2 YEA 0 NAY!

3. Humbert
   

   A couple years ago—about 10 years into our marriage and amid our trying to fix some desire discrepancy issues—my wife confessed that she cheated on me with a good friend of ours, someone who was in our wedding party and has since made moves on her. This took place about a year before we were engaged, so a long time ago. While we have come a long way, it’s taken me a long time to get over this because of certain details. The biggest of these details is that she told me he performed a particular act for her, one that she enjoyed—an act she won’t let me perform on her. I’m very attracted to my wife; I couldn’t feel like a luckier guy. She is not the most (or least) sexually adventurous person; nor am I. I’m quite happy with our sex life, except that one thing. I’m slightly obsessed with it. She seems to enjoy porn that contains it, and she’s had it and liked it before, but doesn’t want it from me. She claims it’s a hygiene issue, but I feel like that is easy enough to solve. Simply put, I’m not going to do something she says she doesn’t want. At the same time, I really want to shed my insecurity about her getting freaky on the low with our old friend but not me. The male psyche is a little ridiculous, I realize. What should I do?

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4. Sylvaine
   

   Take a closer look at the modding. I post serious questions about challenges in the classroom (albeit weird ones), they get deleted in 10 minutes.

   But the racist trolling (some of which is, admittedly, funny) doesn’t get touched.

   I’m one of the few politologists still poasting here.

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5. Sylvaine
   

   . What should I do?

   Stab them both. Then stab yourself for good measure.

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6. Merritt
   

   Kirk, please close this board down. There are no political scientists here anymore and the majority of posts are from trolls or high school kids who discover this place via Reddit

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7. Maura
   

   Kirk, please close this board down. There are no political scientists here anymore and the majority of posts are from trolls or high school kids who discover this place via Reddit

   Did someone say hump day?

   3 months ago # QUOTE 3 YEA 0 NAY!

8. Jabba
   

   Can we replace the humourless scold of a mod with someone who actually a) has a sense of humour and b) has the academic credentials to actually recognize c jokes?

   3 months ago # QUOTE 5 YEA 2 NAY!

9. Babs
   

   How about modding that deletes the appalling homophobia, xenophobia, racism and sexism while leaving the actual political science and politics discussions?

   Just a thought

   3 months ago # QUOTE 3 YEA 3 NAY!

10. Roly
    

    How about modding that deletes the appalling homophobia, xenophobia, racism and sexism while leaving the actual political science and politics discussions?
    Just a thought

    Can't have a discussion if everything you disagree with is either 'homophobic, xenophobic, racist' or 'sexist.'

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11. Roly
    

    Let's IP ban the nutjob that's been sh_tposting about his personal problems today.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 2 YEA 0 NAY!

12. Geoffroi
    

    Let's IP ban the nutjob that's been sh_tposting about his personal problems today.

    Yeah, you have a good grasp of how the internet works.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 2 YEA 2 NAY!

13. Kramer
    

    PSR is especially nasty today. Mods, why do you abandon PSR? The trolling is out of control.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 1 YEA 3 NAY!

14. Kramer
    

    Kirk and the other mods, when will you clean this website? In the past 24 hours we had: suicide threats, homicide threats, p**n links, bullying of graduate students, bullying of Junior faculty, sexism, h**phobia, alt-right hate speech, sex-obsessed posts, p*ophilia, partition troll, racism, and general nastiness towards other users. If you can't keep your site clean you might as well shut off this website, Kirk.

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15. Orrell
    

    Political science is a sewer, Kramer.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 3 YEA 2 NAY!

16. Jeni
    

    The new mod(s) have made some solid strides to clean up this place. A good direction, though much work remains. Keep it up!

    3 months ago # QUOTE 1 YEA 3 NAY!

17. Roly
    

    The new mod(s) have made some solid strides to clean up this place. A good direction, though much work remains. Keep it up!

    Freedom of speech (such as it was) is dying here, though I notice a certain political element has free reign to call another group whatever they fecking like.

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18. Johnathan
    

    The new mod(s) have made some solid strides to clean up this place. A good direction, though much work remains. Keep it up!

    Freedom of speech (such as it was) is dying here, though I notice a certain political element has free reign to call another group whatever they fecking like.

    Dude, there are site rules. It's not a question of "freedom of speech" (no matter how much that might get conservative blood pumping). You want to post here, it's under those conditions. Posts that violate site rules will (and should) be removed. It's not that hard.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 1 YEA 4 NAY!

19. Gaye
    

    The new moderation is discouraging actual political discussion. I just got blocked for using a term referring to one of the major mainstream ideologies of the past century. Not sure of the end game but these are the final days of PSR.

    3 months ago # QUOTE 3 YEA 2 NAY!

20. Cicero
    

    SITE IS UN USABLE

    3 months ago # QUOTE 1 YEA 0 NAY!

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