Quote Originally Posted by DragonHeart View Post
Basically, allow GC-style conversation into ID topics, right? That's kind of what I was getting at as well. As it is now, ID discussions are very, well, stiff. This is probably a poor analogy, but I get the same feeling entering ID as I do walking into a really rich person's house. Even if I was invited, I just can't feel comfortable because I feel like I need to show my absolute best. Then it's just too formal and awkward and it sucks.

I do believe relaxing the atmosphere would help quite a bit. There's no reason why one thread can't have both casual discussion and lengthy back and forth debate. Let people post at their comfort level, don't try to make a posting style into a rule.

As far as actual ID topics, we've always had politics and sciences and religion in there, but I've always thought it would be a good place for news/current events as well. Most of those go in GC right now, that I've seen anyways.

~DragonHeart~
Who says that there can't be a GC-style tones to posts in ID? I never have said that it was not allowed and as far as I know neither did Chez in her tenure.

It would be the members that have set the standard of what the ideal threads and posting habits are in the ID forum.

I think discussing news in the ID forum is perfectly acceptable, actually I encourage it.

Meh, now I am to lazy to multi quote everyone that I want to address.

Alpha- did you see the edit to my previous post?

Nathan - Tiffany is correct in saying that undertones could be interpreted / misconstrued by the writer or the reader. To actually moderate those style misinterpretations / construed statements is way to difficult. If someone reports it as offensive then the offender had better to expect to hear from me in one form or another for further clarifications.

Blatant rule violations will be warned accordingly.

Soldier - I agree that sourcing is a necessity for an intellectual discussion but most people on here prefer to take the easy way out. Also the one paragraph limitation was to keep a standard in place for a post, if someone is knowingly posting ID shouldn't a certain amount of intelectt an thought be put into a post?

In reality one paragraph is not asking a whole lot of TFF members to post and it helps to force people into explaining their thoughts on an issue a little further.

Merlin - I agree with you on the topic of statistics, they are biased and most of the time very inaccurate.

Gweeh I am cutting the rest of my post short, I am sure I am going to have to respond to enough questions from this post alone with out adding more to it for now.

Sorry if some of this is unclear, been meaning to get back to this thread for a few days now. Today I have been sick as hell and my mind is not functioning properly when it comes to what think and what I trying to say.