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Does anyone else think that General could do to be split up into General/US and General/Rest of the World? Because I have been going in there on and off, and there is one thread for the whole of UK politics, and the one or two times I have tried to start another thread, it either gets merged into the UK politics one or just ignored (maybe because no one cares which is fair enough) or because it gets swamped by all the American stuff. 
Meanwhile American politics covers 20, 30 threads with several topics getting two or three threads least. And when I try to contribute then most of them time I am either told that I don't understand (because I am not American), that the UK doesn't understand (because it isn't free, isn't democratic or just has too much tea) or just ignored (for both of the previous two reasons or another equally facile one). And I know it sounds like I am whining because I am not getting to play with the other kids, and that is not my point I swear - it's just that in the end I am going to stop going to the general forum because - quite honestly - there is very little in there to interest me. 
So - to get back to my first paragraph - I take it there is little or no chance of the Admins considering something like that? To move all the specifically American political topics into a sub-forum and the other political topics into a different sub-forum and then put all the other stuff (squirrels vs llamas for example) into an actual general forum? Because that might be fun and would at least make it more readable and might provoke more discussion about subjects other than Trump, Clinton and other such Americana.
(No offence intended to any Americans here - I am just commenting!)
 

Does anyone else think that General could do to be split up into General/US and General/Rest of the World? Because I have been going in there on and off, and there is one thread for the whole of UK politics, and the one or two times I have tried to start another thread, it either gets merged into the UK politics one or just ignored (maybe because no one cares which is fair enough) or because it gets swamped by all the American stuff. 
Meanwhile American politics covers 20, 30 threads with several topics getting two or three threads least. And when I try to contribute then most of them time I am either told that I don't understand (because I am not American), that the UK doesn't understand (because it isn't free, isn't democratic or just has too much tea) or just ignored (for both of the previous two reasons or another equally facile one). And I know it sounds like I am whining because I am not getting to play with the other kids, and that is not my point I swear - it's just that in the end I am going to stop going to the general forum because - quite honestly - there is very little in there to interest me. 
So - to get back to my first paragraph - I take it there is little or no chance of the Admins considering something like that? To move all the specifically American political topics into a sub-forum and the other political topics into a different sub-forum and then put all the other stuff (squirrels vs llamas for example) into an actual general forum? Because that might be fun and would at least make it more readable and might provoke more discussion about subjects other than Trump, Clinton and other such Americana.
(No offence intended to any Americans here - I am just commenting!)
 

Well - I told my wife about my new initiative, and two things came from it :-
First, I am sleeping on the couch tonight, because telling your wife that you were SO BORED by the opera she took you to that your mind wandered into creating an entirely new governmental initiative is really not a good idea. Turns out she takes it badly. 
And secondly she pointed out that most of this information would be picked up by the Calladan immigration department -- when someone immigrates to Calladan from any other country, they would run a background check that would pretty much follow the MACE protocols and if the person requesting permission to immigrate was a bad enough criminal, then we would not grant it. And even if they were granted permission to immigrate, then ORC would still retain ALL of the information gathered during the immigration process - including all of the criminal records that this person has. 
She also pointed out that it would be more or less safe to assume that most other countries would have similar immigration processes, and so would have similar record gathering processes. 
Which would render this ENTIRE proposal somewhat pointless and useless. 
So - unless anyone can see a flaw in my wife's logic (and is willing to point it out to her - I already have one night on the couch and I am not getting another!) I think that my entire plan to carry this proposal forward is pretty much dead in the water.