>>Considering that I no longer program for a living, but only for my own amusement, the section where I spent most of my time lurking was the chatter forum. I've been a paying member for many years, but now I really don't see the value (for me) of renewing next time around.
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>While I was, ahem, contributing to the mess myself, I find that I'm not missing it, or at least not too much. But then if it was reinstated there would have to be some list of never-do-this and it would have to include politics. Or at least american politics (which is what broke the camel's neck) - but then it would be the missing elephant in the room. Is there any other politics that's independent from it?
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>So, it's not only impossible to draw a line, but it's also impossible, even if such a line was drawn, to have more personnel watching the line than there's for the maintenance of the whole rest of the site, as Michel explained. IOW it's not that the bar serves bad drinks, it's the guests that get unruly when drinking.

Like you, although I am interested in politics, I can live without it on UT. But it would be nice to have Sports, Movies, Books, Food, Women :), Linguistics (especially French :) as Chatter forums. Otherwise, I am beginning to read Yahoo news when I am bored :)