Well, PDF allows for general topics as well whereas BR and D.F.I are generally reliable, as you put it, on military technical matters. This is because the membership is already assumed to be mostly right-wing Indian.
Mostly military veterans*. Then, there are some doctors, engineers in PSUs or aspiring of becoming so. Their topic knowledge and nationalistic bias is obvious and any of those "right wing trolls" is able to put down experts of PDF here. Urban Indians with higher education are usually more likely to be nationalistic than rural folks living in Gandhi's pacifist Utopia (the reason why BJP wins in cities mostly and fluctuates in remote areas). Case of India's "right wing" is a bit different from elsewhere in world where usually left is educated and right is not. Indian right wing is more organised and diverse than a right wing usually is.
India Today Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) scanned through the educational and occupational profiles of the respondents and compared them with the post-poll survey of 2019 Lok Sabha election.
www.indiatoday.in
As far as general topics are concerned, fielding Indian "right wings" against Pakistanis and creating a false balance is too unfair. Pakistan is a theocracy, simply a "right wing country" itself by definition.
India is a liberal federation with so many ideologies communism, socialism, capitalism, nationalism, globalism etc. amalgated in one national union with completely different identity and goals. India's "right wing" are more "liberal" are Pakistani "left" itself if you try enlist all the laws, bills and political positions from them. A Pakistani discussion will be a reflection of what Muslim thinks while Indian debates and discussion are an amalgamation of what you will look in any other free country.
Whereas on PDF, because of diversity of opinion, one has to start again and again explaining the basis of a certain topic.
Any diversity of opinion is useless without quality just as opinion of a street boy is useless against an intellectual. We people around world have their confirmation biases on nationality. Seriously, if diverse opinions hasn't stopped mud sliding against each other by citizens of various countries and not brought them on a technical sound discussion table, it was useless. The very purpose of keeping so many country watch forums on PDF was traffic at first place.
If I was born a Pakistani, I too would obviously find reasons to justify India's partition, blame Hindus for some massacre, try to mock them and give examples of China, US or EU if Pak doesn't stand, their everything is foreign paintjob and vice versa an Indian nationalist would feel moral superiority saying "this was our land", Pak is theocracy India isn't, Pak hasn't this and that things (ignoring the fact that Pakistan is too small to have diverse industry like India). Obviously posting some poverty pictures of each other to reflect each other as a dystopia and so forth depending upon my nationality and nature.
D.F.I. and PDF have their own perspectives. Pakistan is an Islamic state with smaller size and low end industries, identity issues with India and hyphenates itself with those in middle east, talking about "region". India is a relatively larger and stable state with upper hand in these issues, has other kind of issues. Ego becomes naturally large (just as it would have become after being born in an even privileged state like US or China) and range of topics to discuss usually goes upto East Asia, Europe, Americas as Bangladesh and Pak aren't proportionally as interesting topic in India than India is in them.
Tribalism is human nature, religious, nationalist, political etc.. Everyone thinks they are right for their own reasons. Why not ignore each other if can't have peace? Even Indians complaining of biased moderation on PDF are stupid. Why? It's their forum.
I'm only a lurker here and barely participate in thread if I find a good post to reply. Was even banned once for not any violation but because probably my opinion was offensive towards existence of Pakistani state.
