Ok, last time, it's not a place for a ****ing contest. It's to post information about political situations affecting conflict. Since my focus is contemporary conflict I have found it is almost impossible to separate one from the other.
Seriously, I don't think "news" and "rant" can be separated on an open forum. I can't count the number of threads on other forums I've seen locked because, despite frequent informative posts from folks on the ground in Ukraine, certain forumites couldn't control their urge to re-argue every ****ing contest of the last 200 years(*)
No one's locking anything. If people want a pi
ssing contest, it happens.
If people want some sort of secret guild that even I won't look at, that too is fine - and they can
discuss it (and moderate it) as desired.