Dear Audiogon,

The way most advertising works on the internet is that you will will be served ads relating to interests you have shown through the websites you have visited in the past.  Therefore you will see political ads if you have visited sites which have something to do with politics.   This is not Audiogon who sell this advertising, virtually no websites sell their own advertising inventory. 

Political posts, if they don’t take over the thread, are left alone quite often. Same with cloths, cars etc..., however once these off topic ramblings completely take over a thread they certainly can and has been removed.

Exactly Grannyring
I can think of a couple of current popular threads that contain off topic elements including the ones mentioned but as of yet they have not been booted and I think as long as they get steered back on topic and it does not get to charged it does not hurt matters too much.

Of course there will always be those who think as this is an audio forum then absolutely NOTHING bar audio should ever be discussed!

Kinda boring not to have some other worldly injections at times imho.