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Off Topic or Political Science?

01/01/2009 4:40 PM

I feel that the discussions of possible ways for us to do what needs to be done according to facts on CR4 would benefit more if there was a Political Science option along with the off topic option to categorize thread posts. I highly respect, and in a way love the administrators of this site, which I feel has great potential. Imagine if Obama, or Bush was to drop in? Would they be interested in the discussion about what to do with their Blackberry? As a community CR4 is unique and I feel a few tweaks will make it do as we want. One suggestion of mine is that off topic feeds to Poly Sci for hash outs on the basis of science and human nature, which can be in conflict. I will not withdraw from reading or commenting as far as what I know regardless, but do suggest that as an experiment, marking a comment as politically influenced, be another option to "off topic" in the forum. Mob rule in combination to Republic would be the reaction of the administrators to a vote by members. I will humbly submit to whatever the outcome of my suggestion is. Still, I hope the discussion will continue.

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Re: Off Topic or Political Science?

01/01/2009 4:46 PM

Sorry, we're not going to have a politics section. It's outside the mission of this site. Additionally, people cannot discuss these issues rationally - we know this from experience. We have booted more folks from this site for losing their composure during political discussions than all other reasons combined.

There are plenty of places on the web where one can discuss politics for politics sake (same with religion) but few where folks can have (mostly) civil discussions about engineering, science and technology.

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