"That would be fine if people did use POL as a prefix"

I still think Political is too narrow a prefix, I'd go for 'News' or 'Topical' as not all current affairs threads are exclusively political.

There will always be areas of lesser interest than others for some 'Catters, but if there *were* to be some BS Prefix additions, IMO they aught to be *broadly theme based* and not limited to particular topics that are disliked by a few.