In its present form I will not miss Answerbank when it closes as I believe it will. Recently the editors were asking for newcomers to join and also asked for donations. Neither of these two request resulted in what the editors wanted or indeed need. This site is being taken over by trolls and if anybody still doesn't understand what a troll is, here is a dictionary definition.
" A troll is Internet slang for a person who intentionally tries to instigate conflict, hostility, or arguments in an online social community."
This definition describes a number of members of this site who have turned a few categories in general and the news category in particular, into a baiting arena instead of what it once was, a debating area. For Answerbank to continue this will have to change, people will not join a site to be ridiculed and also pay for the privilege, we are not that stupid. These trolls have turned the news section into a puerile shambles with their nonsense of turning every subject posted into a post about Boris Johnson, Brexit or their prophesised demise of the UK.
These people do not want to debate a subject, they only want to prove, mainly to themselves, how clever they think they are. Get rid of them Ed before this, once excellent question and answer site becomes a distant memory.