2017-08-15, 03:18 PM
Or maybe set up a Conspiracy Theory Discussions forum inside of Other Stuff if this is possible. My thinking now though is that we allow for conspiracy theory discussions but not pure political discussions, unless we host political discussion in a single thread in Other Stuff called Political Discussions or something of that nature. This would avoid the problem of the Other Stuff forum becoming completely cluttered with multiple political threads.
That was mine. Here's a bit of what I wrote more extensively, which are just my current thoughts. I'm sharing them here.
Whether that is possible or not, my thinking right now is we should allow for conspiracy theory discussion, not pure political discussions (left, right, Reps, Dems, Brexit, SJWs, alt-right, alt-left, capitalism-anarchism-socialism-libertarianism, Trump, Clinton, bla bla bla) - unless we create just a thread inside of Other Stuff called "Political Discussions" or "Politics and/or Current World Events" and people can put all of their political discussions in that single thread. That way when people look inside of Other Stuff it wouldn't be populated with tons of political and current event threads. (Or when people look at "new posts" it wouldn't be populated with tons of political posts, just a recurrent, very active "politics" thread.)
Regarding conspiracy theory threads: let's say they can be posted in the Other Stuff subforum. But one possibility is to ask that if the conspiracy in question is mostly related to politics and world current events and is too closely to a current sociopolitical agenda, put it in a Politics and/or Current World Events thread. Pretty much every single place in the internet right now is a space to discuss such topics, it doesn't need to be here. This would be one way of keeping it very secluded, so as not to turn off a great number of people who would be turned off by the presence of this material, especially if takes up a lot of space.
These are just my thoughts.
That was mine. Here's a bit of what I wrote more extensively, which are just my current thoughts. I'm sharing them here.
Whether that is possible or not, my thinking right now is we should allow for conspiracy theory discussion, not pure political discussions (left, right, Reps, Dems, Brexit, SJWs, alt-right, alt-left, capitalism-anarchism-socialism-libertarianism, Trump, Clinton, bla bla bla) - unless we create just a thread inside of Other Stuff called "Political Discussions" or "Politics and/or Current World Events" and people can put all of their political discussions in that single thread. That way when people look inside of Other Stuff it wouldn't be populated with tons of political and current event threads. (Or when people look at "new posts" it wouldn't be populated with tons of political posts, just a recurrent, very active "politics" thread.)
Regarding conspiracy theory threads: let's say they can be posted in the Other Stuff subforum. But one possibility is to ask that if the conspiracy in question is mostly related to politics and world current events and is too closely to a current sociopolitical agenda, put it in a Politics and/or Current World Events thread. Pretty much every single place in the internet right now is a space to discuss such topics, it doesn't need to be here. This would be one way of keeping it very secluded, so as not to turn off a great number of people who would be turned off by the presence of this material, especially if takes up a lot of space.
These are just my thoughts.