Oh, huh, forgot to reveal the hidden agenda. The point is to accelerate and monetize the collapse of the political middle.
I wanted to basically create inter-forum rivalries and foster divisions among forum users, while creating a sense of in-group tribalism among people on the same forum. There'd be perhaps one debate subforum which all the forum partitions can use together, where they would just scream at each other constantly. Sort of like Holla Forums and Holla Forums and /leftpol/ are, but with an even distribution of people controlled by the test and manual sorting.
There'd also be a publicly accessible Q&A subforum where political questions are answered, and it'd be the only search-indexed part of the forum for that good SEO. And there'd be monitization schemes built on the inter-forum rivalries and maybe each forum could pay to promote blogs and podcasts and self published books. Also, I like the idea of being able to pay money to bypass the political test entirely - partially because I think putting money forward would encourage good behavior, but also because I bet enough would do it to make some cash.
It's really a cynical cash-in on the collapse of late-stage capitalist politics.
But, since I am unskilled and also lazy, it won't happen.
