The day the ID died

[Alpha]

Let's see...maybe a "Happening Today" or "In the News" type of feature? Every day anyone who finds something interesting going on in the world can link to it with a comment or two. Big topics that foster lots of discussion can be split into new ID threads.

...a semi-informal thread where you can post about a current event on whim. For instance, someone could just link a news page, and give a couple of words/sentences/paragraphs on their thoughts about it. Each new 'event' need not even come with an expectation of anyone replying -- it's just a space to air quick thoughts. If discussions develop, they can migrate to their own thread, or stay brief and contained within this thread.

[This suggestion] reaches right across many of the concerns raised in this very thread about the adversarial nature of discussions; it seems like it would carry no expectation of 'being an expert'; and so on and so forth.

If we had a few less formal, more general topics ID may not be so intimidating. Besides, there's a lot of topics out there that are interesting but aren't really strong enough to base a thread on.

I think this is fantastic, and I wonder if you would be willing to write up an OP for it, DH?

Just putting it out there, because we've really only seen Meier and Rocky put their 2 cents in so far... are there any more comments on this suggestion? I even used bold and red to draw attention to it! And I saved you the inconvenience of having to scroll back up! If there's nothing else added, I think you should go ahead, DH, if you want. Up to Meier if it's to be stickied, of course.

Haven't got the time to look in depth at those sites at the moment, but from the number you got there (particularly the breadth), that sounds like a pretty good suggestion also.