Should the following Threads be moved to the Shrapnel General Section

tesco samoa · #1 March 25th, 2003, 12:08 AM

Should the following threads be moved to shrapnel general

[OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation.

[OT] Captured Troops

Debate on North Korea.

Should all future topics related to war be moved to Shrapnel General

The reason why I post this is because only a few people are taking part in these dicussions and perhaps they should be in the general section

tbontob · #2 March 25th, 2003, 12:26 AM

Personally, I really do not see a problem.

Maybe a quarter of the threads have little or no relationship to the game.

Yet they persevere. And some have quite a following.

Technically, they should all be removed. Yet, they seem to serve a social purpose in that the participants get to know each other.

primitive · #3 March 25th, 2003, 01:04 AM

Moving the threads to the general forum will just kill them off.

Banning all threads about things that really matter from the SEIV forum is nothing less than censorship.

We all have free will and can skip those threads we don't want to read.

Gryphin · #4 March 25th, 2003, 01:07 AM

I don't follow any of the threads. It does not bother me that they are there.

David E. Gervais · #5 March 25th, 2003, 01:32 AM

I don't see the need to move the threads, the best way to discourage threads like that is not to participate. If the threads are generating interest and getting lost of Posts, then the threads obviously serve a pourpos.

Consider this a pennies worth of thought!

Cheers!

Suicide Junkie · #6 March 25th, 2003, 01:50 AM

Theoretically, yes.

Practically, it would be easier to just post a link to the threads here, and you wouldn't need to bump it ever 2 hours to keep it on the front page.

geoschmo · #7 March 25th, 2003, 02:28 AM

Not to mention the practicality of getting threads moved. Since Richard left Shrapnel I suppose Tim Brooks would be the man to do it, but he's a rather busy guy.

Geoschmo

Andr�s · #8 March 25th, 2003, 02:30 AM

Don't move them.
I never check the shrapnel general forums, so moving OT threads would be the same that erasing them for me and many people.

PvK · #9 March 25th, 2003, 02:32 AM

Personally, they don't really bother me. Apparently many Users are enjoying them, so unless many others are bothered, I'd tend to say leave them be.

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Originally posted by primitive:
Moving the threads to the general forum will just kill them off.

Banning all threads about things that really matter from the SEIV forum is nothing less than censorship.

We all have free will and can skip those threads we don't want to read.

Moving the threads wouldn't be censoring them, but it would be trying to force people to change their forum habits, which as you say would have the effect that most people wouldn't see them. On the other hand, for the minority that doesn't follow the Space Empires forum, it'd actually increase the visible activity.

Perhaps a counter-suggestion would be to move the older off-topic threads to the general forum, to make the old topics here more relevant, and to give more content to the general forum.

Then again, the actual Posts in this forum tend to get SE-related Posts even in off-topic subjects, so they might be a little out of place in the General forum.

(Hmm, I must be avoiding getting my work done, if I'm writing this here!)

It's probably not really worth anyone's time to bother with them, and might bug people more than it would do any good, to move them.

PvK

Fyron · #10 March 25th, 2003, 03:02 AM

Moving them would be bad. There is no need to redundantly post why, but there is need to give support to move = bad.

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Technically, they should all be removed.

Technically, no, they shouldn't. There is no rule written that says only se4 can be discussed in this forum.

[ March 25, 2003, 01:03: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]