[BoxOfRain]

>/r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer.

I'm really sad about what happened to /r/ukpolitics. Back when it had 20-30k subscribers it was genuinely full of political anoraks and I'd often feel I'd learned something because you had the full spectrum represented there. They'd argue but people tended to know their shit a lot more, and obviously rubbish arguments were much less common. It's far more successful on paper now, but it's also enormously less interesting for me.

Maybe I'm just not the intended audience any more, I'm the sort of person who'd rather see an anarchist and a Thatcherite get into a verbal knife fight than the beige, very mainstream discussions that go on there now.