Should Subsim Open a Political Topics Forum?

[GoldenRivet]

Should subsim open a political topics forum so that the General Topics forum can be more dedicated to general topics and not political threads?

[Task Force]

Yes, I say we need to keep politics away from the normal stuff.

[Thomen]

Nope.. sooner or later almost any controversial topic will be infused with politics.
No one is holding a gun to anyones head and forces him or her to peek inside and respond.

Furthermore it would crowd the Radioroom even more.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Thomen

Nope.. sooner or later almost any controversial topic will be infused with politics.
No one is holding a gun to anyones head and forces him or her to peek inside and respond.

Furthermore it would crowd the Radioroom even more.

Agreed.

[kranz]

I will vote Yes if you vote for porn section

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by kranz

I will vote Yes if you vote for porn section

Well.. now there is an idea..

Originally Posted by kranz

I will vote Yes if you vote for porn section

I vote for at least a SubSim Babe Thread.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Yes, I say we need to keep politics away from the normal stuff.

That was the intention for General Topics...

Just be glad Neal lets us discuss politics at all.

This aint the first poll on this topic

[Fincuan]

I vote for a "Chain emails only" forum, or at minimun a thread. That would keep the **** out of sight and the more sensible political discussion still accessible.

[Carotio]

In the mod section, one is encouraged to use something like [REL] in the topic title, when releasing a mod.
We could encourage the users to use [POL] in the title. That way, all users would know that this is a political discussion thread, and he/she can either choose to read it or avoid it.

So how about that? [POL] for topic titles instead of a new sub forum?

[Skybird]

Already tried, 2 or 3 years ago. I marked some threads like that, but almost nobody cared to copy the idea.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Carotio

In the mod section, one is encouraged to use something like [REL] in the topic title, when releasing a mod.
We could encourage the users to use [POL] in the title. That way, all users would know that this is a political discussion thread, and he/she can either choose to read it or avoid it.

So how about that? [POL] for topic titles instead of a new sub forum?

It's a good idea, but I don't think it's necessary. It's pretty easy to know you're entering a political thread when looking at most titles. And, if you get duped in, you're never more than a press of the "Back Button" away.

[Skybird]

No. "General topics" is already reserved for things not related to any of the other sim-related forums of this site. We could as well ask for a joke-sub-forum. A history sub-forum. And a sub-forum for curious cat's treads and the like (which I find to be the most idiotic of all threads running here). But I keep it simple. Instead of demanding a cat-subforum - I simply don't read those threads, and others as well if I am not interested in them by their headline.

If you specialise forums like that, what need is left to have a general topics forum then? GT already is for stuff not fitting into the site-/sim-/game-related forums.

As Xabba already said, people must think twice before posting, and make sure that the place gets not crowded with one and the same kind of threads. The recent wave of ideologic third person's chain-email threads were nothing else but spamming, and simply acchieved what they wanted: despite being closed, they brought their message over, closed or not. Such things should not be tolerated, but deleted. that is no censorship, but protection and enforcing of well-known board policies forbidding spamming.

[Melonfish]

there are far to many political types on here, lets not pour petrol on em eh?

[ETR3(SS)]

I vote no. And why bring up a poll about something in which you have said you are done posting in?

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