politics, religion, and beating children

Originally posted by licker:
I don't appreciate it, but I also don't care that much. Still it seemed to me that there was more discussion and less bashing going on in that thread than most others like it (not on these Boards...)

Anyway, its more interesting to me to have those discussions with people I know from this board than going to some random newsgroup or other forum. Oh well, the moderator is always right, except in this case

Well you are of course entitled to that opinion, but this is not a normal forum. For things that go rabidly off topic I personally feel it's best to not keep them at the top for the most vocal to post madly to express their opinion.

The Last thing I'd like anyone new to Dominions 2 is some 60 page thread about personal politics and religion in a rabid fashion.

[Targa]

This forum is aptly named: "Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars". It's a forum about gaming. There are plenty of other forums, newsGroups, Yahoo Groups, etc... where people can go to debate their own personal religious beliefs, political ideals, parenting methods, and just about anything else they can think of. Let's try to keep it that way.

[Gandalf Parker]

As I said, I was having fun with the thread myself (and added a few barbs). But the Last few Posts in that one kindof embarrassed me for new people to see it in a games forum.

If it had been in something like newsGroups I would definetly have jumped in swinging.
Thats one of the things I have newsGroups for

[Zapmeister]

There's no question that religion is everybody's favourite flamewar. A while back, in the newsgroup comp.sys.ibmpc.games.strategic, some guy called Alvin started a thread entitled "Christianity and Gaming", in which he passed some comment about which games are suitable for good Christians.

It soon became by far the most popular thread in the group, and quickly lost any relevance to gaming. People just love to talk about it, anywhere and with anyone.

Personally, I would have preferred to have seen the discussion in this forum retitled to "OT: Religion, politics and beating children" (if that were possible) so that it could stay for the folks that wanted it, but the "OT" would warn off the folks that are only here for Dominions.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Personally, I would have preferred to have seen the discussion in this forum retitled to "OT: Religion, politics and beating children" (if that were possible) so that it could stay for the folks that wanted it, but the "OT" would warn off the folks that are only here for Dominions.

Hmmmmm but I was trying to free up the original thread so it could continue. Maybe if I had copied the entire thread to a different forum, then stripped it down, renamed it, copied it back. Im not sure if that would be possible. And I probably would still have had to delete some of the Last few Messages. Nahh that would have gotten into unfair judging.

I love such debates but I get them in the newsGroups rather than a game forum. It tends to work better since newsGroups dont belong to anyone.

[fahdiz]

Maybe a good solution would be for Shrapnel to have a separate Off Topic forum, where people could discuss those issues at their leisure (and perhaps with greater liberty of speech?), without cluttering up the game-specific forums for the people like me, who are interested in Dominions II information and not so interested in others' views on non-game-related material.

Several other forums on the net have separate Off Topic forums and it seems to work pretty well.

Edit: I wanted to add that I agree with what Targa said 110%.

[ February 14, 2004, 05:52: Message edited by: fahdiz ]

[Endoperez]

Pity, I was looking forward to show my post in that thread to my religion teacher... I see why it was done, though.