Serious Debates as a subforum?

[Smithy]

After last night i put SN&D on ignore, but I've just realised now i can't see the news articles :facepalm:

Would it be possible to just have subform for the debates, and then have serious news as the main forum, I know the news topics generally turn into debates/discussions but it's never as frustrating as general debates :laugh:

Is it possible please?


(and before people say just don't read it, you didn't have to read this thread and comment so :nono:

[Ashley.]

lol

[Kizzy]

What is this serious dates vendetta you have? :laugh:

[Smithy]

What is this serious dates vendetta you have? :laugh:

It's like when you're driving past a car crash you don't want to look, but you just have too, and then you wish you hadn't and want to stick your head in a blender

[Glenn.]

I think it's a good idea

[T*]

Yes please, I've been screamed at a few times by SD&N frequenters because I've posted news that you can't have a debate about

[Jay.]

i never really take notice of it

but sounds like a good idea tbh

[LukeB]

Here for it

[Pete.]

Yes please

[Cherie]

Yes please, I've been screamed at a few times by SD&N frequenters because I've posted news that you can't have a debate about

Names?

[MTVN]

I don't know I think there's too much overlap between debates and news that it's a bit awkward to separate them. That was the reason that Serious Debates was changed to include news a few years ago instead of having 'news' as a sub forum in general chat

[arista]

Yes its Fine as it is

[Smithy]

Names?
Let's not start dragging certain people up and causing arguments
I don't know I think there's too much overlap between debates and news that it's a bit awkward to separate them. That was the reason that Serious Debates was changed to include news a few years ago instead of having 'news' as a sub forum in general chat

Well it's not really separating them, seeing as it'd be the same forum, just a sub forum, it'd just make more sense than having threads debating porn adultery and "heterophobia" in the same place

[Ashley.]

Let's not start dragging certain people up and causing arguments

Bit hypocritical.

[Smithy]

lol

Bit hypocritical.

Can you take your passive aggressive baiting and move onto another thread tyvm :)

[MTVN]

Well it's not really separating them, seeing as it'd be the same forum, just a sub forum, it'd just make more sense than having threads debating porn adultery and "heterophobia" in the same place

It is separating them for all intents and purposes though, I don't think it would always be clear when a thread should be posted in news and when it should be posted in the debates when a lot of the time news stories are posted so that they do generate debates

[Ashley.]

Can you take your passive aggressive baiting and move onto another thread tyvm :)

Just because Niamh removed the insulting comment you made about another user, doesn't mean it's been wiped from history.

[Cherie]

[QUOTE=Smithy;8160215]Let's not start dragging certain people up and causing arguments


I'm not I don't think it's very fair that sweeping statements can be made without some evidence to back it up.

[Smithy]

It is separating them for all intents and purposes though, I don't think it would always be clear when a thread should be posted in news and when it should be posted in the debates when a lot of the time news stories are posted so that they do generate debates

I think it's quite clear tho, a debate is generally a question posed to everyone whereas news topics are news topics, if that leads to a debate about the topic fair enough that's what they're generally for, but debating porn is obviously not news :laugh:

[Kizzy]

Hey if you can discuss fisting in chat and games we can discuss porn in SD :idc:

[arista]

[QUOTE=Smithy;8160215]Let's not start dragging certain people up and causing arguments


I'm not I don't think it's very fair that sweeping statements can be made without some evidence to back it up.


Yes lets have the Beef

[MTVN]

I think it's quite clear tho, a debate is generally a question posed to everyone whereas news topics are news topics, if that leads to a debate about the topic fair enough that's what they're generally for, but debating porn is obviously not news :laugh:

Not but it's a debate that could be prompted by a news story on say the government tightening porn laws. I get that there are some debates which aren't related to news stories like ones on religion but most of the time I think news and debates are pretty connected. Looking at the first page of SD now things like 'Merkel: hero or villain' is a debate but its prompted by current news, as is Josh's thread on 'what do you think about companies raising prices to pay for the newer minimum wage', the thread on Corbyn not singing the national anthem, the one on the Greek elections, the one on MI5 seeking more powers etc.

[arista]

Hey if you can discuss fisting in chat and games we can discuss porn in SD :idc:


http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/3/7/294481/default/v3/rtr3anwq-1-536x302.jpg


For Sure

[Kizzy]

Not but it's a debate that could be prompted by a news story on say the government tightening porn laws. I get that there are some debates which aren't related to news stories like ones on religion but most of the time I think news and debates are pretty connected. Looking at the first page of SD now things like 'Merkel: hero or villain' is a debate but its prompted by current news, as is Josh's thread on 'what do you think about companies raising prices to pay for the newer minimum wage', the thread on Corbyn not singing the national anthem, the one on the Greek elections, the one on MI5 seeking more powers etc.

Well said, there seems to be some kind of uprising against SD... what's the problem, has the rest of the forum gotten so boring that there has to be initiated some form of drama, would something happening in a subforum you aren't interested in affect you so much? :/
This thread seems to have been created as a response to the deleted thread from yesterday to me, to keep the silliness going.

[Smithy]

If anything kizzy it's to avoid silliness like that again :idc:

[Ashley.]

If anything kizzy it's to avoid silliness like that again :idc:

It's not silliness, it's just people who don't share the same opinion as you.

[arista]

It's not silliness, it's just people who don't share the same opinion as you.


You are Sharp

[Crimson Dynamo]

Smithy

You wouldn't recognise a serious debate if ye met one in yer purrich

[Kizzy]

If anything kizzy it's to avoid silliness like that again :idc:

Well seeing as you've had that sig for a while now it seems you've been stewing on this topic for too long :idc: