On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 12:05:10 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:

Sure there has been some level of political threads here for many
years. But it's gotten a magnitude worse in the past year or so,
with the arrival of posters who post almost exclusively about that.
Prior it was regulars who contributed, where once in awhile some
politics was discussed.


Amen. It's just post after post after post about politics and
some screwy off topic garbage that 2 or 3 posters just love to
share. Why they think anyone in alt.home.repair wants to read
this junk hour after hour is beyond me.