Extra Subforums Suggestions

Yet it seems to be acceptable to just throw in wild claims unsupported by evidence if you are a proponent.  I would like to see Psiencequest become what the name suggests instead of an anything goes platform for everybody's fancies.

But that's part of the point of some of the subforums - while many don't really take part in some of those subforums, I think the idea behind them was that their purpose would be to allow people to discuss or speculate different ideas regarding reality without having others come in to bring the hammer down and dominate those attempted conversations with criticism. 

I don't think there's anything wrong with having subforums like that. Obviously there is diversity here in terms of where people are at and what they like to post about. Some prefer to take part in the debate between skeptics and proponents, some feel that that isn't worthwhile and that they're past those sort of arguments just based on their beliefs and approach, etc. Of course there can be overlap between those groups. 

I just think that having subforums mostly meant for discussions of what reality might be like, under the primary assumption that psi or some of the phenomena discussed are actually true (as opposed to debating whether that actually is the case or not), is fair. That's why some members are here, just like there are members who prefer the more hot button discussions between proponents and skeptics, and others who like focusing on research papers, studies, articles, etc. I think the variety is nice. It's inevitable that discussions between subforums might bleed into one another sometimes, but I don't think that's a reason to eliminate one region of the forum altogether.