Political Forum?

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-17 01:58pm

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?

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-17 01:59pm

Nah, keep it in Off-Topic.. that way everyone can talk about anything and everything and relate back all to something else in some funny way instead of just strictly politics.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-03-17 02:02pm

Off Topic goes through its ups and downs in regard to the majority of posts, we certainly don;t need a sex forum yet sex related threads pop up all the time in OT. We're just going thropugh an understandably heavy politcal/war phase right now but it will swing back to anal any time now.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-17 02:02pm

Nah, it's just cause of the looming war, once this is over it'll calm down, nothing worth deticating entire forum to.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 02:22pm

I'll say yes. It's frustrating to see an interesting but sorta low-key political debate get pushed off the screen by God knows how many "1000th post!" or "How long is your schlong?" threads. I think Mike's biggest objection would be that the list of forums on the main page is getting too long. I'd sugest breaking them up into two directories: Sci-Fi (for SWvST, PSW, PST, and OSF) and The Real World, for SLAM and the new politics forum. Testing and Announcements would remain under Administrative, and of course the HOS would stay in the Sewer.

If there's enough votes for a politics forum, I could suggest a moderator *cough*.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-17 02:25pm

Unnecessary. Off Topic and Science, Logic, And Morality have politics covered just fine. The recent surge of political postings won't last. At most we need a temporary forum for Iraq.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-03-17 02:25pm

I think so, Just being little more than 2 months around the board I can name at least 40 consistant posters under this topic umbrella.. A political forum would be great.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-17 02:27pm

[jumps up and down in orgasmic delight] Hell yeah! i agree that too many good political argu...erm..debates get pushed down due to 'who would you fuck' threads.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-03-17 02:34pm

Unnecessary. OT and SLaM can handle the political debates just fine (and seeing the way political arquments have been going in the last week HoS is usefull as well).
I don't see any real need for YET another forum for political debates.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 02:51pm

OT has been too cluttered for a while. If a thread doesn't get people posting in it constantly, it dies, which is frustrating because sometimes a good debate will go dormant for a day or so and be gone, where in most of the other forums a thread can stay quiet for a while and become reactivated later when someone comes up with something new to say.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-03-17 03:18pm

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?

Can't say. I am undecided at this point, both sides have good arguments for or against a Political Forum.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-17 04:01pm

It might be a good idea to create a temporary fourm specifically for the discussion of the third Iraq war. I suspect the discussions are going to grow both in terms of size and in terms of flamage as the conquest progresses.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-03-17 04:10pm

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?

Me likey!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-17 07:03pm

Well, the number of political debates will probably decrease later on, so I really don't think it would be necessary in the long run. Besides, it wouldn't be as active, so things would slow down.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-17 07:26pm

A temp forum would seem to stand within reason; a lot of people (like myself) that only check certain times of the day are likely to have to trudge through as many as six political threads a day, on the same topic, sometimes, in order to figure out what else is going on. And that is not to exclude the fact that there are OTHER political threads all over the place that bog down the other OT threads. I, for one, don't look into the political threads much, and would like to try to get to some of the topics that *might* hold some interest to me (this is, in fact, one of the major reasons why I don't post too much in OT anymore).

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-03-17 07:26pm

Actually I think it might not be a bad idea. Certianly some political issues keep coming up again and again. I'd be in favor of it, especially if it meant we could lift a certain moritorium.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-03-17 08:03pm

Well really the OT forum goes through it's phases... Just depends if we really really really need a dedicated political forum.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-17 08:04pm

Crown wrote:Well really the OT forum goes through it's phases... Just depends if we really really really need a dedicated political forum.

Well, with or without the war, there is never a lack of political debate, so I'd say give it a shot.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-03-17 08:10pm

RedImperator wrote:I'd sugest breaking them up into two directories: Sci-Fi (for SWvST, PSW, PST, and OSF) and The Real World, for SLAM and the new politics forum.

Unfortunately the board software can't do that.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-17 08:10pm

My problem is making a ghost town over at off topic and clogging up the front page with forums. . It would be nice but I don't think that it is really necessary.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-17 08:13pm

Enlightenment wrote:
RedImperator wrote:I'd sugest breaking them up into two directories: Sci-Fi (for SWvST, PSW, PST, and OSF) and The Real World, for SLAM and the new politics forum.
Unfortunately the board software can't do that.

That, and every forum would be more clogged than it already is!!

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-03-17 08:15pm

verilon wrote:
Crown wrote:Well really the OT forum goes through it's phases... Just depends if we really really really need a dedicated political forum.
Well, with or without the war, there is never a lack of political debate, so I'd say give it a shot.

Well I am certainly not against it, just I remember that it has it's peaks and troughs is all. Hey wouldn't bother me either way.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-17 08:18pm

Crown wrote:Well I am certainly not against it, just I remember that it has it's peaks and troughs is all. Hey wouldn't bother me either way.

Every forum does.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 08:37pm

ArmorPierce wrote:My problem is making a ghost town over at off topic and clogging up the front page with forums. . It would be nice but I don't think that it is really necessary.

It would hardly make OT a ghost town. OT could draw more traffic than all of the rest of the forums with anal sex threads alone. The cluttering would be a more serious issue, but I think the board could handle it.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-03-17 08:59pm

Nah, it'll calm down in a few weeks.

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