Way back when, I got made a moderator after I volunteered to Phil to moderate a separate politics forum. This was back in '04, before that election, and I thought things were nasty then.
It's just gotten worse in the last four years; I'm not sure how this country has evolved into this state of permanent election, but it has, and it's killed much of what is fun about the SO.
Half of the front page is politics, dominated by a loud handful of posters.
So, what say you, SO? Is it time to move these conversations into their own sandbox?