What's the difference between a post in the political section and a post in the lounge?
Or a post giving bad advice in the tech section?
Or making up something to post in the kill section?
Or a post bitching about Keith Meese for the eight billionth time?
When "Nice kill!" counts as much as a well thought out post on injector sizing I think you are being a tad inconsistent in saying a post in the political section fails to pass some quality test.
And for those of you complaining about PV... the political section was created many years ago to keep that stuff out of the lounge. At the time everybody was very happy about that. Now we have people calling for it to be trash canned because they don't like it. WTF? Just don't go there.
I personally think the kill section is beyond stupid. (A lot of boards don't even have one so as not to encourage street racing.) But if some people like it, fine, I don't have to go there.
As for drawing a crowd... that's kind of a stretch... but corvetteforum has a huge political section (which actually moves too fast for anyone with a job to keep up with) and they seem to do OK.