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Originally Posted by Jack_

What about moving all off-topic discussions of Corbyn (or other issues that derail threads) into specific big threads that have already been created for that purpose? A bit like that thread TS was posting in the other week that he suggested was recreated, if a discussion about x turns into a discussion like 'yeah x is x but CORBYN IS Y', then rather than the posts being removed which seems to be frustrating people, they're moved to a Jeremy Corbyn thread (I think one was created recently, and certainly arista had the original when he first became leader and updated it for about 18 months), where the members involved can then discuss his relation to the original topic to their hearts content, while everyone else continues the original discussion back in the main thread.

I don't feel this would satisfy people either, but it is an interesting suggestion and may be better than deleting posts. An issue here would be, many of the posts won't actually be a discussion though. Like, if all the offtopic things were moved there the thread would read

Corbyn is a bad man

People who support Corbyn are idiots

But Corbyn is just as bad

You support Corbyn so shut up

Actual well thought out post mentioning Corbyns name but being mainly on original topic..I felt would be fair to put in here but honestly, such a post would not be moved in the first place

A few offtopic posts is fine. Hell even whole threads taken offtopic are fine if the discussion naturally goes that way. But when you have a 'but corbyn' post a few minutes into a thread about something else, and then the same thing happening to the next created thread and so on..well its..I don't know the word to actualy put here.

But TLDR; I think that would annoy people much more. And would not stop them feeling 'censored'.