The choice to add new subforums isn't always about how trafficked they will be. Part of the issue has to do with moderation.

Really, one of the BIG reasons we haven't rushed ahead with this is the feeling that a politics subforum would be an area requiring EVEN MORE moderation, and that if people had an area to rant about politics, they'd be more apt to really rant.

OK... We've added a TEMP - Election 2004 Sub Forum:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/forumdi...?s=&forumid=47

BE NICE!

Good god, thank you.

Thank you!

Whether anyone remembers or not, I've always been against this, but ultimately it doesn't matter much. However, one of the main reasons I was against this was because of the gray area. Do all news threads go there? Threads like the Russian hostage crisis or the Indonesian election? What about threads on the economy? I am just trying to get some clarification. My inclination is for all news/current events topics to go there, but will follow whatever protocol is set. Thanks.

Jeez... a Star Wars and Electon 2004 subform in the same week? I may never leave this place!

and a poker sub forum.

I'm on a roll.


Also adding 3 new reviewers

peer pressure

as of right now, the forum is for election news and stuff related to it (michael moore thread, etc)

i dont care much for the idea either

but since it will only be 2 months.. i dont really care

btw.. what happens at the end of the two months.. all the threads currently in that subforum disappear with the forum?

Bravo Geoff


...and thanks!

THANK YOU!

they'll get moved to the 'Venusian Forum' just like the War Forum threads did

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Geoff, thank you.

is that the secret forum where that thread you *accidently* posted in feedback, and I replied to the other day disappeared to

haha, stupid twikoff bot is too fast for me. that went to the OTHER secret forum.

the Venusian Forum is what the mods renamed the War Forum before it was put out of its misery. i've been searching around the mod forum looking for the secret door to it but can't find it yet

No offense, but that really isn't much of a clarification. Where do threads go concerning newly released unemployment figures? What about a thread regarding German elections? What about happenings in Afghanistan and Pakistan? All of these things can very easily, and probably should, include references to our President, which in turn may lead to comments concerning the elections. So I will ask again: should all political/current events/geopolitical news threads go in that forum?

it was supposed to be vague


if you know the thread is going to turn into an election related thread, put it in the forum. if it turns into one, the mods will try to move it.

all political threads don't have to go there, but i'm guessing a majority of them will since everything these days revolves around the election.

maybe we can make it like obscenity, i can't define it but i know it when i see it (or however it went).

So all the obscenities are supposed to go into the Election Forum? Fuck, this is confusing.

Since they were started with the intent to reflect upon the election or will turn that direction fairly quickly I would put threads concerning most of the subjects you mentioned in the Election Forum.

It's possible some current event threads might stay far enough away from politics that they should probably stay in Other.

Why only a temporary forum? Don't you think we'll be talking about the 2004 election well into the new year?