Let me take a step back from the confrontational attitude with which I've been replying to Cobra, and try to approach his mindset with a bit more sympathy and understanding.
Ultimately, I get where he and the old RVF guard are coming from. They want a specialist Game forum because, at least at this point in their lives, that is what primarily interests them. And it is true that the tone and content of a specialist forum will diverge a lot from those of a generalist one. So their cautionary message is correct--if I cared about maintaining a specialist Game forum.
As it happens, however, I don't. I know just about all the Game I will ever need, and I am even in the process of publishing what I believe will be the LAST great Game book, so I have no need for a specialist Game forum any more, just like the countless RVF posters who outgrew their Game-heavy days and welcomed the introduction of more diverse discussion into the forum in the form of politics and much else. So even if we disregard my personal interests, and we regard my admin work here as merely trying to serve the needs of CURRENT RVG refugees, I think I am being faithful to them and to their needs by allowing politics, since they have been allowing politics in their own forum too for a long time.
Ultimately, most of the best Game material has already been written. The field is really not that complex. If there was once a need for many specialist Game forums, those days are long gone now. The task of Game specialists now is more a scholar's and librarian's task than anything else: unearthing all the best material, and elevating it above the bad and cataloguing it and making it easily accessible. We will be doing much of this here by diving deep into the RVF archives and pulling out all the best stuff and copy-pasting it over here. We already started this process with the "Best of Roosh" thread, appropriately enough (since he was the reason I made this forum in the first place), and I plan to start Best of Laner, and Best of H1N1 and gework and so on threads in the coming weeks and months. It'll be a fun task, very instructive because it will force us to remember and re-examine all the best material that has ever been written, and for newbies it will be a goldmine that they'll be able to access easily without having to wade into the labyrinth that is RVF (and that might not exist for very long, if Roosh's descent into psychosis continues). I am sure that we'll generate new material too, from time to time, but we've long reached the point of diminishing returns in Game, so don't expect too much, especially after my book has been finished. So you see, there's no reason to be too fanatical about creating a super-focused Game forum anymore. Or even a Travel forum, as far as I am concerned.
Today there exist more aging advanced level players than at ANY time in the history of the species, and these aging players are NOT interested in investing a ton of time in a skillset they've already pretty much mastered. THAT'S why RVF turned political, and NOT because it was somehow "corrupted". What's corrupt is to expect a bunch of 40-year-old master players to be interested in the same things that 20-something newbies are interested in. Life simply doesn't work that way.
Maybe I should have written the above right away, instead of insulting you and your friends as effeminate drones who only think about eating, fucking and shitting, but frankly, that's how many young players look to us old hands, and it's insufferable. I will quote here the ONLY guy from the Swoop forum who got this right, and expressed it very eloquently (and of course was summarily ignored):
https://swooptheworld.com/forum/showthr ... 27#pid8327
Dash wrote:Value is subjective.
I tend to hold the train of thought,
You do you, I do me.
Which means, discuss what you want. Let other discuss what they want.
Don't worry about what others are doing.
Back when I was a member on RVF long time ago, I had no interest in the game forum. Hence I never went there.
I found it filled cheesy PUA jargon and socially awkward dudes who had no clue about social dynamics and women.
If a dude is breaking the rules he can easily be banned or ignored.
I find it kind of feminine, SJW and nazi liberal to restrict speech or complain about what others are doing or talking about.
Just my 2 cents.