A New Forum "Current Affairs"?

[GenMarshall]

Originaly posted by cgannon64
I say if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Thats what they said in the Demogame and look what happenen, New DG new Rulesets that replaced the one that worked fine (With the Exceptions of the lop holes). And already we are still having Rule Discussions.

 

[Xen]

I agree with cgannon64 for the most part- OT has the right feel to it

 

[Turner]

Like it the way it is. Perhaps a trial run, say create the Current Affairs forum for a month, see how it goes, then revote on it?

 

[Zarn]

I broke the tie by saying yes. What can I say? I just love things organized.

 

[Xen]

Originally posted by Turner_727
Like it the way it is. Perhaps a trial run, say create the Current Affairs forum for a month, see how it goes, then revote on it?

By Jove, thats a capital Idea!, I vote for that one

 

[Mrogreturns]

There are various "serious" topics that crop up in OT that would still be there if a seperate Current Events forum started- so OT need not descend totally into nonsense. How do you decide what goes into the forum and what doesn`t? Would the "lightning kills fools in front of children" thread go there or stay in OT?

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by Mrogreturns
There are various "serious" topics that crop up in OT that would still be there if a seperate Current Events forum started- so OT need not descend totally into nonsense. How do you decide what goes into the forum and what doesn`t? Would the "lightning kills fools in front of children" thread go there or stay in OT?

In OT.

New forum only for stuff like Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian, US elections etc threads. OT can still have the less contentious news threads - won't be a completely fun forum.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Look at it this way, guys. OT is the soul of CFC. And in OT, you have many very rough political threads. In the past, too many good posters had left 'cause of these kinda argumentative threads.

Now, if there's still an OT, and if they got rankled by the politics discussion in 'Current Affairs', at least there's a chance they'll stay 'cause they can still remain at OT and not touched the CA forum.

 

[Mrogreturns]

I think it worth a try- doesn`t seem to be anything to lose by giving it a go

 

[GerrardCapashen]

I think that a split would be a good idea, so that threads stay on the front page of each forum for twice as long. Often, as soon as a thread hits page 2 it immediately dies, unless it's a long debate thread or another thread for which people are specifically looking.

 

[WillJ]

I sorta like the way political discussions are mingled in with the more light-hearted threads. So I voted no, although I wouldn't mind too much if it were seperated.

 

[Grisu]

I think we should give it a try, maybe it would even bring back some of the posters that left because of the heated discussions (or too many silly threads)

 

[Jeratain]

Originally posted by XIII
Look at it this way, guys. OT is the soul of CFC.

Agreed.

Originally posted by XIII
And in OT, you have many very rough political threads. In the past, too many good posters had left 'cause of these kinda argumentative threads.

Actually, many of those posters left due to the moderation - I never had issues with it, but they did. I can safely say that the cause was not the threads themselves, but the disagreement therein. And what is to say that if we seperate the forums so that there is a politics thread the same thing wouldn't happen?

Originally posted by XIII
Now, if there's still an OT, and if they got rankled by the politics discussion in 'Current Affairs', at least there's a chance they'll stay 'cause they can still remain at OT and not touched the CA forum.

Here's a problem I have with this idea: Currently, everyone who frequents the OT sees the political threads and has two options: 1) participate if it catches their interests; or 2) ignore it and read what they want.

If we were to seperate the forums so there was a political forum, then we would be cutting out a great deal of posters from posting in there. Sometimes people come to OT for the lighthearted threads but find a thead that interests them with political discussions in it. They feel the desire to contribute their ideas and opinions to that thread, and that makes those discussions worth more. If we make it so that they are seperate, those same spontaneous posters have less a chance of caring or seeing those threads, so we don't get the same opinions and it makes the discussions more bland.

It's like the history forum. I don't visit that forum at all. Why? Well because I don't want to. History interests me and I enjoy discussing it, but it only depends on the subject. I don't feel like browsing another forum for something that interests me. I like browsing the OT waiting to see something catch my eye. One forum is fine for me and I enjoy it. The mixture is welcome and I don't want to segregate more posters. (Yes I know that technically we're not segregating them, but not everyone will frequent the politics forum like they do the OT - that is my point)

 

[Immortal]

posters too, most of the people who made the jump over to cg/other forum did so because of the posters.

 

[AVN]

I voted yes, but I propose that the forum will be called "Politics".

I remember the great and heavy discussions of the past about subjects as "Capitalism vs Socialism". And I think such serious, theoretical subjects should be discussed in this new forum and not in the new OT, which will be created for the lighter stuff.

 

[napoleon526]

Perhaps we can create a new forum consisting entirely of "Shock and Awe" threads.

 

[John-LP]

Originally posted by XIII
In hot times (911, Iraq War), mods can shut down the whole politics forum w/o affecting the fun easy-going threads. Tentatively proposed...

Why would you have to shut down the forum during "hot times"?

 

[superslug]

I wouldn't name the new forum Current Affairs. Too many infidelity jokes...I can see the thinking behind splitting off the 'news', but how are posters going to know what news stories go there and what 'lesser' ones would go in OT? I think you'd be moving threads all the time.

 

[Octavian X]

If I want a forum to spam, I want that forum to be in one place.

I vote no.

 

[Stapel]

No,

I fail to see the advantage.