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I pray that the members here begin posting world news, and leave the U.S. News to a bare minimum. If I may suggest to the administration, make a U.S. news thread, that may solve the problem.

I used to enjoy reading this thread in the past. This was the ONLY place I would read what is happening to Christians and Christian Values around the world. Now it has become a U.S. political battleground for people who hate/love President Trump.
 
rock022 said:
I pray that the members here begin posting world news, and leave the U.S. News to a bare minimum. If I may suggest to the administration, make a U.S. news thread, that may solve the problem.

I used to enjoy reading this thread in the past. This was the ONLY place I would read what is happening to Christians and Christian Values around the world. Now it has become a U.S. political battleground for people who hate/love President Trump.
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Soon there will be as many threads about this topic as ones about President trump lol.

Just don’t read the threads you don’t want to read.:The title of the thread should help with that. shrug:
 
Hopefully this thread will be moved to Staff Chat where I think it belongs.

In that vein I would like to suggest customizable forum listings. Most people know that you can exclude terms from a Google search by using the minus sign. So a news search about Florida this past weekend would be crowded with Trump-related hits.

However searching “Florida -Trump” will give much more tolerable results, if that is the term you are trying to avoid.

I’m not sure whether such a thing would be possible with the current message board software, but hopefully at some future date members will be able to exclude threads with particular words, without having to read through such titles every time the World News front page is refreshed.
 
You know there is a Catholic News section for religious news you seem to be looking for, right?
 
I think the point about the U.S. not being the world is a valid one. There is a huge world out there, although us American folks seem to think we’re the center of it 🙂 I think it’s a bit problematic to say the equivalent of if you don’t like it don’t look.
 
Clearly, any events that take place outside of the confines of America are irrelevant and are not worthy of being considered “news”. America #1! USA! USA!

But seriously, I think the reason that you see so many U.S. based news articles is because I suspect that a majority of people on this forum are American due to this being an English speaking site and the site being based in the U.S. It is like this on almost any forum online that meets these criteria. People tend to post only about topics that they’re interested in, and most people are going to be chiefly concerned with events in their own country, hence why most of the news here is U.S. related. This, on top of the fact that it is a very contentious time in America right now since the 2016 election.

I agree a U.S.-only forum or a politics forum might be a good idea. There is certainly enough to discuss that it would merit its own forum. Then those who don’t care about such things can avoid it completely. There was a thread posted by the mods awhile ago in this forum about this exact same topic but it was later removed. I think I did see an uptick in news threads from other countries for awhile after that but I don’t think it lasted that long.
 
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Hopefully this thread will be moved to Staff Chat where I think it belongs.

In that vein I would like to suggest customizable forum listings. Most people know that you can exclude terms from a Google search by using the minus sign. So a news search about Florida this past weekend would be crowded with Trump-related hits.

However searching “Florida -Trump” will give much more tolerable results, if that is the term you are trying to avoid.

I’m not sure whether such a thing would be possible with the current message board software, but hopefully at some future date members will be able to exclude threads with particular words, without having to read through such titles every time the World News front page is refreshed.
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Thanks for that info.
 
rock022 said:
I pray that the members here begin posting world news, and leave the U.S. News to a bare minimum. If I may suggest to the administration, make a U.S. news thread, that may solve the problem.

I used to enjoy reading this thread in the past. This was the ONLY place I would read what is happening to Christians and Christian Values around the world. Now it has become a U.S. political battleground for people who hate/love President Trump.
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Yes, but Trump’s attack on doing things to mitigate climate change will be harming the entire world for many generations to come, decimating life on planet earth.

Also, if you know of some world news stories that might be of interest, please do post them. I watch Democracy Now! because it does have some stories on other countries around the world, at least in their news briefs and sometimes in their longer discussions…but these are mainly about Latin America.

I would also like to see our US news media that claim to present “World News” cover more stories outside the US and not only those that involve the US in some ways.

I’m with you on this.
 
rock022 said:
I pray that the members here begin posting world news, and leave the U.S. News to a bare minimum. If I may suggest to the administration, make a U.S. news thread, that may solve the problem.

I used to enjoy reading this thread in the past. This was the ONLY place I would read what is happening to Christians and Christian Values around the world. Now it has become a U.S. political battleground for people who hate/love President Trump.
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You are invited and welcome to post non-U.S. threads here.

In fact, I personally just posted a thread about Piers Morgan in London protesting that the Christians are not attempting to stop or even slow down the Muslim attacks on Christians and Christianity.]

Please join in.
 
rock022 said:
I pray that the members here begin posting world news, and leave the U.S. News to a bare minimum. If I may suggest to the administration, make a U.S. news thread, that may solve the problem.

I used to enjoy reading this thread in the past. This was the ONLY place I would read what is happening to Christians and Christian Values around the world. Now it has become a U.S. political battleground for people who hate/love President Trump.
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CAF users have already been asked to limit US political threads. The problem is people who don’t like Trump post a new thread every time there is a revised story that’ll hopefully be the one to bring him down.
 
SuperLuigi said:
CAF users have already been asked to limit US political threads. The problem is people who don’t like Trump post a new thread every time there is a revised story that’ll hopefully be the one to bring him down.
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I agree.
 
Digitonomy said:
Hopefully this thread will be moved to Staff Chat where I think it belongs.

In that vein I would like to suggest customizable forum listings. Most people know that you can exclude terms from a Google search by using the minus sign. So a news search about Florida this past weekend would be crowded with Trump-related hits.

However searching “Florida -Trump” will give much more tolerable results, if that is the term you are trying to avoid.

I’m not sure whether such a thing would be possible with the current message board software, but hopefully at some future date members will be able to exclude threads with particular words, without having to read through such titles every time the World News front page is refreshed.
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I tried that.

I typed “World News Forum –Trump” and I got

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People will post what they want to post. Segregating the boards (US News, World News) may help, but the majority of discussions goes on the topics about US news, and secondarily, Catholic stories in general.

There isn’t much you can do to change what people are most interested in discussing.

Look at the number of users on the Catholic News board compared to the World News board, and this is on a Catholic website.
 
Considering Trump is probably going to lead us into a world war, Trump threads will be World News. Problem solved.
 
SuperLuigi said:
CAF users have already been asked to limit US political threads. The problem is people who don’t like Trump post a new thread every time there is a revised story that’ll hopefully be the one to bring him down.
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A quick survey of the forum display page shows that your statement strays very far from the truth.
 
Here’s something that sort of goes outside the US - “British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia,” for which I started a new thread (since they closed down the other ones about Russian election interference) - see forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=1048721

But hurry up, they’ll no doubt close that one as well.
 
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