Since the title of the forums is Current Events, how about placing a 30 day limit on how long a particular thread remains alive? If no activity occurs in 30 days, the thread gets whacked entirely.
Since the title of the forums is Current Events, how about placing a 30 day limit on how long a particular thread remains alive? If no activity occurs in 30 days, the thread gets whacked entirely.
They usually fall off the chart by themselves.Originally Posted by Jag-lover
I would remove them from the database so it would be impossible to dredge them up again.
They can be archived so people still can read it but cannot post in it.
What will this accomplish IYO, Jag?
(That's a serious, non-confrontational question.)
Cancer sucks.
When is the forum going to be back up?
Hopefully it will cut down on dredging up old issues that are no longer relevant. I could also envision a performance improvement of the servers although I don't know how much. Maybe the mods will examine that when the time comes to re-activate the forum.
I'm not a huge fan of that forum myself, but if you're going to have a forum to discuss political topics, you need to allow for threads to be updated as new info becomes available. For example, let's say a thread on the Trayvon Martin shooting goes quiet after an initial discussion. There's an initial flurry, but then it settles down once the initial kerfluffle is over. A couple of weeks later, Zimmerman is arrested. That seems worthy of discussion in a politics forum, and I think it adds value to have that discussion all in the same thread as the original discussion, since it's the same topic, really, and then you can quote earlier posts to discuss them in the context of the newer info.
Sometimes topics go quiet for a a little while - a few days, a few months - and then pick up when new info comes to light. If we're going to discuss these things, we need to allow for that. Otherwise, there's really no point in even discussing them, but again, that's just my own bias leaking through.
I kinda like that the Wah uv Nahthun Aggression is hotly debated from time to time.
Does that get the boot? It's only 150 years ago and they didn't have the internet.
They can debate it as hotly as they want. We won.I kinda like that the Wah uv Nahthun Aggression is hotly debated from time to time.
Does that get the boot? It's only 150 years ago and they didn't have the internet.
Advice.....
DON"T GO THERE.
"Moralism is often the first strength of a weak mind"
-Norman Mailer-
Better yet, limit each poster to 30 comments and 1 new thread per month. That would go a long way to regulate some of the diatribes, partisan bickering and personal attacks that occur from time to time to time to time.
Lose the mega-downforce and let's separate the men from the boys!
Interesting, but I doubt the forum software supports those kinds of restrictions. I could be wrong, though.
I really don't know what all the hubub is about. You can either read it or not. Respond to it or not. Have any physical threats ever been made? Ever carried out? In my mind there is no way you can ever have a board where politics is discussed and keep it civil. It's the nature of the beast. Nut cases abound on all sides.
The underlying problem for the mods would seem to be determining whether there are so many nutcases participating that the costs of managing the forum exceed the value it gives to the rest of TF.
Nutcases??
Eccentrics.
"Each day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this one day for it, and it alone, is life"
~ Sanskrit poem attributed to Kalidasa, "Salutation to the Dawn"
Brian's Wish
No, Pluto is eccentric. We're nutcases.
The better tern is wingnut. It fits for both sides of the aisle.
I've never heard that term used about the left. I've heard other derogatory terms, but not that one. It seems to always be directed at the right.
I've always heard "Wingnuts" for the right and "Moonbats" for the left.
I've generally heard "wingnut" for the left and "whackjob" for the right.
"Moonbat" is almost always applied to the left, yeah.
Eccentrics are nutcases with money. That leaves most of us out.
Perhaps we can start a fight on this thread!
so Jag are you telling us that you, of all people, wasn't invited to the super secret placebo Current Events forum.
I am shocked. Truly shocked. If there is another more rational poster in CE I would be hard pressed to know who that might be (well maybe RS 2,and at least Gomer tries).
Sifaka
Now there's some smart thinking. man, would that cut down on the gratuitous slamming. Spend it now and you don't have it later. I love it
That's because all wingnuts are threaded clockwise.
Wingnuts line up on the right
Fellow travelers on he left
Thanks!
He said nothing of the sort. He's there having mature conversations with others who have proven they can act with civility toward those with whom they disagree.
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