Intellectual Discussion, and what to do about it

[LocoColt04]

@S:

In my other thread, I propose the idea of renaming "Intellectual Discussion" to something a little more appropriate and less condescending.

The idea behind ID is to have a forum where thorough posts about serious subjects are made, and let's be honest - there is still a place for that to exist without it having to get thrown into General Chat and have some tag in the thread title to specify that it's a serious discussion.

I suggested "Topical Debates" as a potential replacement, but the "debate" word may not truly satisfy the nature of every thread in the forum. It's something else we can work on, but I agree with the idea that it could use a little refresher to pull the "holier-than-thou" out of the title. That's something which can be discussed in the other thread, though.

[SOLDIER #819]

@S:

In my other thread, I propose the idea of renaming "Intellectual Discussion" to something a little more appropriate and less condescending.

The idea behind ID is to have a forum where thorough posts about serious subjects are made, and let's be honest - there is still a place for that to exist without it having to get thrown into General Chat and have some tag in the thread title to specify that it's a serious discussion.

The idea that the members need topics to be sorted into forums, or tagged, so that they will know what's "serious" and what's not, is condescending. Nobody who knows about Obama's Healthcare or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is going to have trouble seeing that the thread is serious. Actually, anyone who doesn't know would STILL know they're serious topics. People who play around in the threads can be dealt with via spam/trolling rules if it gets out of hand. I doubt that'll be an issue though, as most members here are pretty mature. It'd be good to make Alpha a mod of GC to give the others a break, though.

Shoving good topics into a forum barely anyone checks was and is a bad idea. The problem can't be solved with a name change. We all know it's still the same forum, haha. The people who pass over it and just go to GC aren't going to buy that shit. Just put the topic in plain view and let them decide if they're interested in it.