That would do it.

there has only been 13 threads started in General Discussion. Amazing to me that

Skinner explained it: I have trashed GD: Primaries.

did I give that number.

I'll check it out and see what the number is for GT

May be due to your ignore list or a slow connection? Sometimes it peters out on drawing the screen and I have to hit reload. I think those may be heavy traffic times.

I trashed GDP and the Hillary and Bernie train wrecks.

Other than the obsessives posting in those groups, I'd guess most people have better things to do than talk politics this time of year.

(So, what am I doing here, you ask...)

at least now there's a way to hide the worst of them.

Breaking News being different. Thanks for Skinner's answer. It probably applies to lots of us.