DVD Polizei

But it's so much easier to post in several religious threads.

I simply cut and paste from a previous religious thread.

kd5

I can see how moving religious topics to the Politics forum might appeal to alot of people, me included (I make it a point to stay away from both topics, there can be no winner in either and a great deal of angst in both), but it seems to me that giving Religion top billing in the move might be construed as a slap in the face to the Politics people.

CRM114

It's just a phase. Soon the fundamentalists will grow weary.

Agreed. I don't like how Religion comes first in the title. Regarding your point about the topics, the very fact that the topics are angst ridden makes them the most important topics to discuss. I doubt I'll ever be turned onto religion but I do know many conservatives have changed my views (or formed my views) on certain topics. By avoiding these topics, we avoid growing.

Pharoh

Some thoughts speaking just for myself.


I will again reference Vin's first post, where keeping Other's identity as a less serious destination was important. Removing the increasing amount of serious and contentious religious threads seemed like an easy decision, albeit with some drawbacks.

Since the Politics forum has long been a place for serious and contentious threads, and since politics and religion often, if not usually, intersect, it seemed the only choice for combining forum. Plus, it provides the ability to apply the same unique rules to religious threads as political threads.

As for my earlier comments on ignoring threads, it was made mostly seriously but with the two previous, more important and relevant, ideas in mind. Further, the activity level in the Politics forum has been incredibly lacking as of late, so not reading Religious threads there and/or finding the threads should be an imposition to the very few actively posting there. I wish more would post there, and post more non-religious topics, but that simply isn't the reality at this moment.

I would also like to reiterate and echo what some others have said, that religious threads are the "it" thing at the moment, but likely won't always be that way. The old "ebb and flow". And as Vin stated, before those threads are banished to their own siberia, let us see how this goes for awhile. We can always make changes later if it is necessary.

Pharoh

Oh, I also agree about the title.

Mammal

I suppose I'll check the forum every few weeks to see if the religious junk has been moved, Does anybody know of an alternative place do discuss politics and world events without the god stuff?

VinVega

The Yahoo forums provide some stimulating conversation..."Screw NoBama!" and other such scintillating points.

brayzie

I'm out. I really liked that forum but I think it's a bad move to add all that religiosity to it. I'll PM you a decent substitute political forum.

Anyways thanks for the great political discussions sracer, JasonF, CMR114, DeputyDave, Brack, KVRDave, Jason, Thor Simpson, JFoobar, Mabuse, DrMabuse, Supermallet, Nemein, creekdipper, and everyone else there...

CaptainMarvel

Or not. If you let the weeds kill all the flowers to see how it goes, the flowers don't come back once you finally get around to pulling the weeds.

As others have said, it's terrible now and driving people off. I hate this change, and I find myself visiting less and less to that subforum and the site in general.

Spiderbite

I personally enjoy reading the religion threads but I do think it was a mistake to throw them in the politics section.

Make a Religion sub forum and that would likely please everyone.

story

I think that while colloquially "religion and politics" seem to go hand in hand, I don't think that's necessarily the case at DVDTalk. I think a religion sub-forum that's separate from politics is a good move.

CRM114

I wouldn't mind a religion sub forum as then I would probably never be tempted to engage in them.

But I really don't understand the abhorrence where it causes people to leave. If people would post in the political threads, they'd percolate to the top. It's just a slow time in politics right now.

brayzie

It seems to be a general lowering of standards in that forum. It's kind of like when journalists and news outlets focus on sex scandals because "sex sells" but political scandals involving corruption and criminality, things of real importance, aren't covered nearly as well. The news organizations rationalize it by shrugging their shoulders and saying, "well, that's what the public wants, we're just giving them what they want."

There's not too much "activity" in the Politics forum so why not add Religion to it to get some more traffic? Same type of thinking. And I thought there were supposed to be no generalizations in that forum but I saw "hatetheists" repeated throughout that thread.

It's sad that to have any chance at being president of the United States you have to profess to be a "person of faith." Religion plays too big a part in politics and little things like this just perpetuate the idea that they should go hand in hand.

benedict

Your take on the matter appears to be somewhat at odds with the original announcement.

With regard to the use of "hatetheists", as always, I would recommend judicious use of the button to report what you believe to be offenders in order to help the mods clean up the forum.

Per the SOP people only get so much leeway for proven repeat offending which means that anyone shown to be stinking up the place most likely will be sent on a holiday sooner rather than later if their misbehaviour is flagged.

My only caveat is that people using RTPtaM should take care that they are not simply homing in on someone that they dislike. If you explain your take on the offence it makes for easier and maybe faster discussions amongst the relevant mods.

Pharoh

I would also add that unlike with news outlets, the "readers/viewers" here have far more control as to what discussions are initiated. In fact, almost complete control, provided the discussions are in the proper place and follow the appropriate guidelines. Just because something is allowed does not mean it has to exist.

As for the "hatetheist" issue, remember that thread was started in the Other forum, and as such was not subject to those same rules. We can't move a thread to where different rules exist and then retroactively punish posters.

Music

Is it really that hard to make it it's own sub-forum? :sigh:

benedict

Good point. At least until the thread was moved it is entirely reasonable to expect that the rules applying at the time of posting would be those used to judge any particular post.

brayzie

I tried to stay away from the forum but I can't. I'll give it a shot. It's still the best place I know of for political discussion and it's moderated pretty well. Thanks for keeping it that way.