Political Forum?

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-17 09:45pm

yeah. Im always interested in politics. that wont end with the iraq war.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-03-17 09:52pm

There's never nothing to talk about in Politics. OT and Morality seem to have it covered, but the thread pushing aspect is not a good thing. This doesn't seem like a slippery slope we're going down as far as I know; it seems extremly unlikely that we'll suddenly have a flood of topics that need entire boards dedicated to them. Similarly I don't think there will be any lack of things to post on the OT and Morality boards if there is suddenly a new home for political threads.

But it should go in the Sewer next to the HoS, because this IS politics we're talking about.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-18 07:43pm

In less than 24 hours, this thread got pushed to the second page. A perfect illustration of how cluttered OT is, I think.

Bump.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-18 09:23pm

I guess we can either talk about politics or Anal sex 1 in the same I guess..

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-18 09:35pm

I've logged onto OT and every single thread on the first page has been marked unread. This is after a few hours or at most half a day offline, not four or five days or something.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-18 09:49pm

The good stuff moves to page to by morning most days.. BTW Red are you a Glenn Beck fan just checking..

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-18 09:58pm

I support the "Kelly" initiative for a new political forum.

Although .... it might have to be specifically stated which topics belong in this new forum (gun control, israel, iraq, etc), as there might be some confusion as to what constitutes a political vs moral discussion. Eg: Some country passes a law forcing creationism in school. That's prime science and morality fodder.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-18 10:13pm

theski wrote:The good stuff moves to page to by morning most days.. BTW Red are you a Glenn Beck fan just checking..

Never heard of him in my entire life.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-18 10:16pm

Red, He is a radio Talk guy out of Phily..

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-19 12:45am

Iggy votes yes.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-19 01:54pm

theski wrote:Red, He is a radio Talk guy out of Phily..

Oh! D'oh! I know who you're talking about now. He's on 1210AM. I think I've caught his show from time to time.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-19 02:04pm

Red, That is him The show is a little less serious than Rush

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-19 02:55pm

We don't need one.
When the war in Iraq is over noone will be talking about politics anymore (well at least not as much as these days).

When we finally get the new board version and sub-forums this won't be an issue anymore, tho.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 03:16pm

Cpt_Frank wrote:We don't need one.
When the war in Iraq is over noone will be talking about politics anymore (well at least not as much as these days).

Everyone EXCEPT Ted, maybe.

When we finally get the new board version and sub-forums this won't be an issue anymore, tho.

Eh?

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-19 03:23pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
When we finally get the new board version and sub-forums this won't be an issue anymore, tho.
Eh?

IIRC the newest version of phpBB will have sub-forums.
But I'm not sure if it's out yet or when/if we're going to update.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 03:37pm

Cpt_Frank wrote: IIRC the newest version of phpBB will have sub-forums.
But I'm not sure if it's out yet or when/if we're going to update.

Oooooooooooh, okay. That makes sense now.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-19 07:27pm

I don't think we really need a dedicated politics forum. It'd just make the index page more cluttered.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-03-19 10:06pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:With all that is happening in our world, it seems OT has been overly crowded with political debates. Perhaps we need to put politics in its own forum so that those of us who do not want to debate politics can find the non-political threads easier?

As others have said, political threads tend to come and go. Another problem with them is the some tend to degenerate into massive and pointless flamewars that don't really resolve anything. So no, this board doesn't really need a political forum.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-19 10:54pm

GrandMasterTerwynn wrote:As others have said, political threads tend to come and go. Another problem with them is the some tend to degenerate into massive and pointless flamewars that don't really resolve anything. So no, this board doesn't really need a political forum.

Some of them will degenerate into massive flamewars no matter what forum they're in. And they might degenerate into flamewars less often if there are mods whose duties consist entirely of preventing political threads from degenerating into flamewars, which would be the job description of the political forum mods.

There's always going to be political threads, even if not quite so many as are materializing right now. I doubt such a forum would be any less busy than Pure Star Trek is. And OT is really cluttered--it would be good for the OT forum, I think, to reduce some of the volume in there.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-20 12:57pm

Ok, now looking at the front page, I think that we should have a political forum, but a temporary War forum.

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