(May 6, 2018 at 11:10 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(May 6, 2018 at 9:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I disagree. People don't like like a joke if they don't use the Debate forum. This is just a slightly more relaxed Debate forum, it's for people to have serious discussions in a "civil" manner, without people coming in and either being jerks or taking the thread off-topic.
Also, I fail to see how creating a new forum limits your freedom. The rest of the forum stays the same as it was.
Take A69 and the Adult Lounge sections for example: posting posts with explicit, adult content outside these sections will lead to a ban, so the existence of them did force a constraint on every member to behave outside these sections.
I assumed the same with the serious section but in reverse: some will not be serious except in the serious section, and posts outside it will not be taken seriously by some.
I hope I made sense
The two aren't really comparable. A69 and the Adult Lounge gave members the ability to post stuff that they couldn't before.
The proposed new forum just has some extra restrictions on what can be posted, a bit like the Introductions forum (where you aren't allowed to use insulting language). The rest of the forum remains the same as before. To my knowledge, the restriction on insulting / rude language in the Introductions forum didn't have any effect on people using insulting / rude language elsewhere.
