2:50 PM
@K-C I'm not sure it's a good idea to ask just one person (and/or to pick that one person merely based on rep points :) I would recommend asking on meta instead to get a balanced broad perspective; though that has a risk of being closed as subjective or too broad
@K-C my personal view is that the good is, the site has enough experts to provide very interesting and useful information on both practical and theoretical aspects of politics/political science; and there are enough people dedicated to the idea that it is more weighed towards informativeness as opposed to opinionatedness.
The bad is, there's TOO much interest/emphasis on politics and debates vs. theoretical political science (when I joined; i was via Libertarian.SE Area 51 proposal that was far more theoretical/philosophical in nature)
Additionally, there's some people who vote purely on political bias (good content gets DVs and crap content undeseeved UVs). It's not overwhelming to the point of making the site unusable or even bad, but still unfortunate. I tend to notice that more from left wing, due to my own biases; but I'm sure it applies on both sides.
Another good is, at large scale; the site (and even its chat room) is incredibly nice and non-confrontatinal compared to what one might expect out of "politics forum" :) There's its share of contentiousness (and i'm as guilty of that as anyone) but it's mostly all quite polite and as much as possible, on substance.
Compared to uncivil (putting it mildly) political "discourse" in other SE chatrooms, this is a breath of fresh air.
