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Hello, all. I have received numerous E-mails pointing out that there is no forum on this BBS where non-SW/ST "vs" debates are allowed. People are asking me to either change this forum's description so that "vs" debates are included, or create a new forum for non-SW/ST "vs" debates. Does anyone have an opinion on this?
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I believe more organization would help more than hurt. It might be nice to have sub forums if possible too. If not I still don't think a critical mass of topics has been reached yet.
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Generally speaking I think seperating "vs" debates from general discussion can help relieve tendencies to flame as it concentrates all the hostility in a smaller space where it can be better moderated.
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I concur with Wilkens
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Nah, no need to debate anything but SW vs ST here. If they want to do otherwise, send them to Spacebattles... :D
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I think these people want INTELGANT debate not the raving of 13 year olds and people pretending to be Scientists

Toss it in here we don't need another forum

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Re: Forum subject change?

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Darth Wong wrote:Hello, all. I have received numerous E-mails pointing out that there is no forum on this BBS where non-SW/ST "vs" debates are allowed. People are asking me to either change this forum's description so that "vs" debates are included, or create a new forum for non-SW/ST "vs" debates. Does anyone have an opinion on this?
I think that it should be fine here, or failing that the Off-topic forum. Lets face it, the discussion of other sci-fi tends to lead to a VS for nothing more than comparisons sake at the very least. It really depends on the spirit you cteated this forum in, if it was for discussion of other sci-fi and its tech, then you should create a seperate Vs forum to run alongside it to keep it organised, if however it's here purely as a catch all then go for keeping it all in here Vs, discussion, tech etc.
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Post by Darth Wong »

Thanks for the replies, everybody. I think it's true that it'll be quite difficult to keep discussions of various sci-fi serues completely isolated from "vs" discussions, unless each sci-fi series gets its own forum (like the "Pure Star Wars" forum), which is a bit impractical. So my solution for now is to simply change the forum description so that it does not prohibit "vs" threads.

Thanks again for your input.
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Post by Grand Admiral Thrawn »

I'm wondering is it okay to post like B5 vs ST here? Or only non SW/ST?
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Post by Admiral Valdemar »

In anycase, this whole board is very good and well thought out anyway. I appreciate what we have here as it is but I hope expansion and improvement also occurs.

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I'm a bit confused on to what we are allowed to post, could I post a b5 vs starwars thread in here??
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