(May 4, 2018 at 3:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(May 4, 2018 at 3:00 pm)Joods Wrote: You didn't answer my question.
What I'm understanding that you want is a change to the rules. A subforum isn't necessary for that. Plus - asking for a change in the rules may or may not be walking a fine line. It's subjective to what one finds offensive or not. There are plenty of threads going on right now that aren't involving the use of name calling or cussing someone out. If there's a specific pattern in the kinds of threads or topics that this is occurring in, then what you are essentially proposing is a subforum for specific topics to be discussed in. We already have those.
In addition - what one find detrimental to a productive discussion is, again, subjective. Those points have already been addressed by others.
My bottom line and my point remains: You want to either police what others can or cannot say or you want a special section for you and your theists to discuss subjects that would severely limit participation by others. There's a rule on that. So you're essentially asking to change that rule.
I dont want a rule change to the forum because I understand the value of free speech and such. It would just be reasonable and beneficial, imho, to add a single reserved section for those (atheists and theists both) who wanted honest discussion without the various types of detractions and such. Basically like a reverse rlyeh. And no, as I said, I would not want anyone excluded. This would be open to anyone who wanted to participate, and I would love to have discussions there with atheists. As i said That's kind of the whole reason I proposed the subforum, is to have productive discussions with those who have different opinions as myself.
Anyway, I doubt it's gonna happen so I wouldn't be too worried about it
But what you are proposing, " a reverse R'lyeh", is redundant. The purpose of R'lyeh is "to provide a more relaxed atmosphere than the rest of the forum". A place where more heated discussion can take place. If you are proposing an opposite to that, you are literally asking that the language used, is limited or restricted. So yes, you are asking to police what people can or cannot say. You just want that to happen in a special section. My opinion of that is that it's completely and utterly redundant.
We can easily accomplish "honest" discussion in the forums we already have now. If it gets a little heated then perhaps we need to look at the reason why that is. I don't see any threads in, say for example, the gaming section of the forums getting "heated". You know what sections are heated? The religious sections. The philosophy sections. The politics and news sections. Any sections that have a strong differing of opinions is where you are going to find strong opinions running rampant.
Those are the topics that are going to come up in this new proposed section. What's going to stop them from getting any more heated than they get now?
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