Opinion of the Dropouts: MT Treasurer

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I don't know if I would go far enough to call him an HP since he has at least had some redeemable pieces of astute analysis that often went against Atlas' conventional wisdom, but I can't say that I'm torn up about him being gone for the time being. His meme posts grew thin rather quickly and had a negative effect on the Congressional/Statewide boards on the whole (to the point where I felt like I couldn't post there). It's also clear that he has a malicious view of the Democrats/left (that colors much of his "analysis"), as well as some clearly misguided views about the way left-leaning voters function.

With that said, I think he is only part of a larger problem on the Congressional and Statewide Boards that it is an environment that rewards meme posts at the expense of more high-effort content. There needs to be something to improve the quality standards of those and discourage others from engaging in tiresome shitposting. I frequently see comments about how other boards (like International Politics and R&P) are of a higher quality because of their userbases/efforts by moderators to keep them of a certain standard while heaping scorn on the Congressional/Statewide boards (Xahar's hyperbolic comment above being an example). It's ridiculous that we can't impose higher standards for the Congressional/Statewide boards when those are elections that so many users care deeply about and want to have longer, quality discussions.