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Originally Posted by Tom*

No it's not just that- It would keep people who don't want to see the debates or vice versa happy and also keep the more important news topics at the top of the respective subforum rather than, e.g. a thread about an important train crash being buried under a thread about a 14 year old being told off by their school for having a certain haircut and the parents run to DailyMail- a thread like that could go in Politics and Debates due to it being something clearly to divide opinion.

But that's Cherie's point, it wouldn't be "buried" as there are not that many new threads created in that section.

It doesn't move as quickly as other sections on the forum.