Oh dear. I think people from the US are now feeling like we've all been having secret UK only discussions about how annoying they are and how we hate hearing about US affairs. This is NOT the case! Of course most of the world has followed at least some of the recent election, since it affects most other countries in some way. People from outside the US have been commenting on those threads and discussing them, clearly we're not all rolling our eyes and gnashing our teeth.
*Most* people seem to want clearer titling so that we don't click on threads about yummy veg*n products that we can't get, or nice deals that we can't get. That is certainly my issue. *I* would also like a little bit of context with US debate threads, for example if a person is mentioned that isn't high profile then perhaps just a line explaining who they are: "Joe Bloggs (a popular US baseball player for those who don't know) has just said in an interview that athletes should never be vegan" or something like that. If I was writing about a UK story, I would give a little bit of context. Obviously when talking about Obama that would not be necessary.
I think the anon posting has made it worse, it gives the impression people have been resentful for some time and only feel able to say something anonymously. I think it would help if people would post openly, perhaps here,
and re-assure the US members of the board that we aren't annoyed at hearing about the US or reading their posts, we just want to be more able to participate in threads and not to keep seeing gorgeous things like Teese and Daiya that we can't have
Maybe people DO feel annoyed at the US in general, I certainly don't speak for everyone, but I feel that as the person who originally bought it up (publically and I hope, not snarkily) I should be the first to apologise if I've made anyone feel uncomfortable and not able to post on the board. That was never my intention.
Plus, one of my best friends is American!!11