The question of political / conspiracy theory content

Is it possible to embed tweets into our posts?

*whistles innocently*

[Laird]

Well, it's slightly over a week since the poll started, so let's declare the results. "Yes" wins at 19 votes out of 33, roughly 58%, a definitive majority:

Should conspiracy theory / political discussion be allowed on this forum?

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Yes 19 57.58% No 3 9.09% Only those closely related to the core Psience Quest topics 11 33.33%

Now, let's poll on the question as to where political/CT discussions may be held on the forum. Here are some potential poll options. These suggestions are from memory: I haven't gone through the thread as I said I would, so I hope that if I have missed any option that anybody thinks should be included, that person speaks up:

Proposed poll: where within the Psience Quest forums may political/CT discussions be held?

• Within the "Other Stuff" forum by creating a new thread for each political/CT topic.
  
• Within two individual threads in the "Other Stuff" forum: one for politics and one for CTs.
  
• Within two sub-forums within the "Other Stuff" forum (with the sub-forums being publicly visible).
  
• As above but with the sub-forums being visible to logged-in members only.
  
• As above but with the sub-forums being visible only to members of a particular usergroup. Individual members will be able to join and leave this/these usergroup(s) themselves (assuming this is possible, which I think it is; if not possible, they will have to ask an admin to add/remove them).
  

Thoughts?

Dante

"Had you considered that the PM was because someone had noticed that you felt overwhelmed, so they PM'd you to make you feel less like you were being ganged up on? "

If that is the case, then I owe you a heck of an apology.  I took a cursory glance at the PM and assumed it was just another attempt at making me buy into somebody elses opinion that I cannot buy into given what I have seen and so I deleted it as soon as I found out how.  It was the weight of everything together with a small amount of mockery on the forum that made me feel like a victim.  If you still have a copy of the PM, could you please PM it to me here so that I can read it properly.  Now I feel like a complete idiot!

For the record, although Dante said I don't have to worry about apologizing, I feel that as I publicly maligned his PM, he deserves a public apology.  Dante was actually trying to be helpful.  I think we have cleared things up now. 

[Laird]

Now, let's poll on the question as to where political/CT discussions may be held on the forum.

Also, to try to speed this process up, let's call the next poll after five days rather than seven - very little changed in the final two days of polling for this poll. As always, raise objections if you have any.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[Ninshub]

Also, to try to speed this process up, let's call the next poll after five days rather than seven - very little changed in the final two days of polling for this poll. As always, raise objections if you have any.

10 days or 2 weeks instead of 5 days, I'd say. In time for the forum's occasionals to have a say.

[Laird]

10 days or 2 weeks instead of 5 days, I'd say. In time for the forum's occasionals to have a say.

OK. I guess there's no rush.

[Laird]

Now, let's poll on the question as to where political/CT discussions may be held on the forum. Here are some potential poll options.

Since nobody has raised any objection or even comment after more than 24 hours (aside from Ian's comments re timeframe), I have initiated the poll. Please raise any/all objections right here!

Does anyone have any strong feeling about any of the options? Any reason one choice may be better than any of the others. It seems like all the choices segregate that stuff somewhere under Other. That seems good.