I always thought there were heated political discussions in the General Forum. At least for as long as I've been here. I haven't seen much change. I thought that's what the General Forum was for. Well that and all kinds of other topics. None of those kind of conversations happen in the DW, SH3, or other areas. So if you don't like that line of conversation, you don't participate.
As far as I'm concerned, Subsim is the best site around like this. Most other sites have General Forum discussion areas and the same happens there....more often worse. One other good thing about this site is the people who congregate here are an interesting and nice bunch of people with a variety of opinion.
Sad to see you go Mike.