Quote Originally Posted by Fishie View Post
People are either going to disagree with you in a respectful manner or just downright rip you a new one. And there are people on here that have complete arrogance and think their opinion is more valid then yours.

I'm pretty sure you've seen it before in I.D. discussions. Someone tries to flame-bait someone, they take it and pretty soon it completely derails the purpose of the thread.
Ah yes the old ripping a new one(notated in red), man how I hate that in an intelectual. But then again there is also ignorace in that which is not bliss. Funny fact, when I was a newer memeber and actually partisipated in this section I was in a thread about childeren can't remember what it was about, but I was just trying to get people's opinion on some issues, even threw in a disclaimer stating that my questions where not my opinion, and got jumped out by 3 different memebers, one in turn told me of all people that I should try having a kid before posting in that section because I had no idea what I was talking about and then continued with what I have notated in blue. I remember that person was young too, like 14-15ish.

Originally posted by Doc Rocco

So how to solve the problem? We need to encourage posts in I.D. obviously. Local and world issues are always good topics for I.D. so long as people's posts are coherent and of a fitting standard. I think people are afraid that their topics might not be worthy of I.D. sometimes. So long as the topics involves higher order thinking skills (Discuss, describe, explain, analyse) I believe it can work here in I.D.. I really should try and make topics in here but I'm often afraid the topic will get shot down. I'll try harder from now on.
That is a problem in its self, trying to get peoples attention twards this area is actually a lot harder then it seems, given you guys reobatained my attention and a few others. But it will take some time to actually rebuild this area into glory, but then again it only takes a few "bad" posts to run it back into the ground. Please note the quotations around the word bad, I am not directly quoting anyone, just putting emphasis on the word.

All in all if the I.D. section is to be fully revived it will have to be a group effort from pretty much all of us and any others that we pick up along the way.