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Old 10-02-2022, 06:57 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by SailinAway View Post
That's not at all what I was suggesting. However, here's another suggestion: Two new subforums. One called "Debates" and one called "Exchange." Calling a forum "Debates" would allow people who don't like hostile debates to avoid it entirely. It would isolate political discussions to one corner. By "Exchange" I mean exchanges of goods and services not involving money. There are subforums here that do involve exchanges of money, so how about one that does not involve money? There are some unused subforums that could be eliminated to make way for these new ones.
It won't work SailinAway, the debate part allowing political stuff, you can't keep the political part isolated to one corner. I've seen it done many times, too many people can't isolate that stuff, it always spills over and someone is always upset.

At the end of the day, it's not up to me whether it gets tried or not. But I hope it doesn't get tried, because my prediction is it will be a disaster.
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