Sounds like more time/effort spent moderating to me. NSX Prime has been very clear that the focus of this site is the NSX and this takes away from that.
In over a week nobody has made a compelling argument for keeping political discussion, or even really expressed a strong desire to keep it.
At the same time, a couple current threads have further convinced me that too many people don't care to respect the "tread lightly" rule.
I am not going to create a separate "gloves off" forum for it, and I'm not going to spend the time and effort to closely police such debates.
Therefore, unless someone convinces me otherwise by this weekend, I am simply going to ban political discussion.
seems to me that civil discussions about a broad variety of topics are one of the high-water qualities of prime over the years... and it seems a shame to kill an entire topic as important to everyone - u.s. citizen or r.o.w. - as politics and the global economy is @ this particular point in time.
rather than penalize the entire community for bad behavior, i suggest issuing a warning to the individual (you may also want to post a note in the thread indicating you'd like a bit more civility) and suspend / terminate if it continues. (for others reading my input, it should be noted that a couple of years ago i was asked by lud to stop my posting / bad behavior on a thread and i responded appropriately - i had gotten too wrapped around the axle for my own good.
a final point: there are a number of members who strongly - but civilly - express their opinions on the economy, politics, etc, that are very different than mine. i must say that i value the discussions that we have in public as well as those via pm/ email / phone and in person; my belief is they feel the same way.
i vote for censuring the poorly behaving member rather than restricting such an important discussion topic.
(as always) good luck with whatever you decide and thanks for continuing to maintain prime.
hal
btw, i also like myguitar's suggestion of sticky/links to political-vomit sites.