Fuck it,
@Null here's my idea:
Null wants to contain the political sperging autism, but also wants to respect the wishes of the predominantly left-wing oldguard users, neither of which side can really seem to find a co-existence, or even seems willing. You can't/won't ban the people who hate A&H and stir the pot, but you also don't want to ban A&H, or you would have done it already. The threat of another
@SIGSEGV glowpost runs the risk of tanking the site. Here's my solution:
Splinter the sites. Create a new subdomain (call it politispergfarms or retardfarms, or whatever). Spool up an instance of the kiwi Xenforo on it, do an initial mirror of all the kiwifarms data (users, threads, messages), then prune all threads outside of A&H ones. Any existing user can just log into their account on the new site. From there on in, if you want to do politisperging, you sign up for retardfarms. Lolcow autism, sign up for Kiwifarms. Any new member who wants to do both can just make an account on each.
Ban politisperging on Kiwifarms, and pre-emptively make a snippy "Retardfarms mocking thread" where anyone with the autism to sift through the splinter site and post screenshots of threads can spend their time.
Then, any arguments of "A&H nazis corrupting and ruining kiwifarms" and "refugees shitting up the site" will be null and void. Anyone who is autistic enough to still rage about A&H users will be confirmed for being retarded, and the risk of glowposting taking down the entire site will be slightly lessened in the case of a domain seizure (still fucked if they seize the server tho).
Also, then you can turn the ability to sign up on/off on the different sites according to different criteria. Political retardation/geopolitical happening? Shut down registration on RetardFarms, but you can keep the registration open on Kiwifarms. Lolcow happening causing retard influx? Shut down registration on Kiwifarms but RetardFarms signups can remain open.
It's a shit solution, but it's honestly the only way I can see this whole thing working out with the hand being dealt.
A&H and the Oldguard can't co-exist, and the past few years have proven it. If you want to fix the hostility, there are only three real options long-term:
1. punish/ban people for picking fights and being assholes across the board (which would enrage the oldguard and drive them over to the SIGSEGV island of broken toys to shit talk you and KF all day until you reverse their bans and they come crawling back like snailslime).
2. Stop hesitating and ban+delete A&H, banning 'political talk' on the site. Assumedly, BDS, TES, Covidiots, and similar 'lefty' threads outside of A&H proper would be retained since blamming them would be against the Oldguard, which this option is supposed to favor. This option would enrage the A&H users, and you'd have a shitstorm period you'd have to wade through boardwide for a little bit before someone else most likely makes a splinter. This option would also cause you to lose any of the benefit you get from increased traffic/user donations from A&H primary users you'd lose.
3. The site-splinter I mentioned previously.
A site where one group is actively fighting with another will always be a hostile shithole. Choose which side you care about more and commit, or split the baby in two. Everything else will be a half-measure IMO.