Should we continue to try to keep political & religious posts in the mega-thread?
Now that we have an OT forum (this one, the Pub), some folks have raised a good question. Should we continue to try to keep the political and religious posts in the mega-thread?
How about two mega-threads, one for political, and one for religious?
Which one means no? 
I can’t see the point of it. Well I suppose someone might say: I have to plough through dozens of political threads just to find the giggles and the flame wars. Oh, let’s be frank. Someone will say that. 
Yes, if it will reduce the possibility of hijackings that turn nasty.
I would like to suggest that we have two sticky megathreads, one “Mostly Political” and one “Mostly Religious,” but take a lenient view if people want to post something on either topic in a separate thread.
That way, many political or religious items will go in the megathreads, helping to keep the board from becoming overrun by many separate religious or political threads, but there will be some separate religious and political threads running too.
(As is my usual policy in such matters, I feel very strongly both ways.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
Heh! Heh! Great line, Jerry. Your idea is excellent, I think. Many of yours’ are though, so no big surprise.
Tom
Well here’s another way. Let’s also have a frivolous and frothy megathread.
Yeah–what he said.
I kept looking for the radio button that offered a third choice–one political and one religious thread. Or make them go to yet another forum–Pub Brawl, maybe.
M
Does this mean that the political/religious sticky thread was supposed to be taken seriously? Oops! 
I only drop in from time to time but there are fewer flame wars there by far than elsewhere. Vigorous disagreements to be sure and occasional cries of ‘foul’. But not the insult trading we often get on other threads.
I hope not.
Seems to me, there’s quite a bit of frothing goes on in that sticky thread as it is.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Since we have an Off-Topic forum now, I’d prefer to see separate threads per subject, meaning there could be hundreds of political threads and hundreds of religious threads. No one in their right mind would ever page back through that mega thread looking for a certain post. You’d use search if you could remember the subject. But, if every subject were threaded seperately, it would be easy to see which page you wanted to get to for a particular post within.
The mega thread should not be nuked or taken out of the data base. The contents need to be maintained for searching. There’s a lot of good stuff there that is still useful.
Personally, I have my feet planted firmly in mid-air.
Dale
YES!
Frankly, I’m a fence straddler myself. With the fence planted firmly . . . 'er, you get the idea.
Will O’Ban
I say no. Now that we’re not taking space away from whistle-related topics, I can’t think of any reason to segregate political and religious threads…unless you’re worried about them turning nasty, in which case perhaps you need a Flame Room to direct people to when they get really unpleasant (lots of forums have those as well).
Redwolf
I doubt if they get TOO nasty. The thread in question has not, for some time.
The plethora of political and religious topics that seem to be discussed though, might make for a first page of all that stuff. Not saying that I’m against that, but some have strong feelings about not seeing anything to do with that type of stuff.
All the Best, Tom
I’m with Lorenzo. One point of the megathread was to reduce the volume of OT’s–not such an issue in the Pub. I avoid the mega due to the hassle of wading through to find something of interest. I’d vastly prefer to zero in on threads which are of particular interest to me.
Maybe, instead, we should have an “Alley” thread. i.e., when any poster(s) become pugnacious in any thread we can ask them if they’d like to take that one into the alley.
edit: what Redwolf is calling the flame room