How would you feel about a new Free For All forum?

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I imagine it as a child of this one. Completely free speech more or less. This forum here would continue as a moderated political forum with civil discussion only.

And have a separate Free Speech or Free For All forum that is clearly marked un-moderated, excepting in extreme cases....violence, pornography, criminal activities, that sort of thing.

This idea was a combination of my original thought and the italicized above that was PMed to me. I will give him credit if he wants it. So you could have that forum for political issues that you want to be nasty with. I would just say the only thing I don't want to see are things that would be legally bad. Like no threatening other posters, no calling them out to make them go in there. Your participation in there would be completely your choice. I think it would be a cesspool if it is used, but some people clearly need to get this stuff out of their system on a daily basis that they don't feel they can be civil for very long in here as I have requested multiple times.

It is a thought. I don't want to be so stifling that people leave because of it, but at the same time, there are real desires among many others to keep the PF civil.
 
I imagine it as a child of this one. Completely free speech more or less. This forum here would continue as a moderated political forum with civil discussion only.

And have a separate Free Speech or Free For All forum that is clearly marked un-moderated, excepting in extreme cases....violence, pornography, criminal activities, that sort of thing.

This idea was a combination of my original thought and the italicized above that was PMed to me. I will give him credit if he wants it. So you could have that forum for political issues that you want to be nasty with. I would just say the only thing I don't want to see are things that would be legally bad. Like no threatening other posters, no calling them out to make them go in there. Your participation in there would be completely your choice. I think it would be a cesspool if it is used, but some people clearly need to get this stuff out of their system on a daily basis that they don't feel they can be civil for very long in here as I have requested multiple times.

It is a thought. I don't want to be so stifling that people leave because of it, but at the same time, there are real desires among many others to keep the PF civil.
Yes. Free speech seems like it's being removed at an alarmingly fast pace lately...especially from fedbook, tweeter, snapfap, instagams, youbewb and the rest.
 
i think it would be great. that way any of that behavior in the other forums would be a bright line ticket to banning, assclowning, allowing posting in just that forum, restricting posting in certain threads, etc. i actually think it would help a lot with moderating. but...i don't know exactly what all is involved with being a mod so i could be naive.
 
I imagine it as a child of this one. Completely free speech more or less. This forum here would continue as a moderated political forum with civil discussion only.

And have a separate Free Speech or Free For All forum that is clearly marked un-moderated, excepting in extreme cases....violence, pornography, criminal activities, that sort of thing.

This idea was a combination of my original thought and the italicized above that was PMed to me. I will give him credit if he wants it. So you could have that forum for political issues that you want to be nasty with. I would just say the only thing I don't want to see are things that would be legally bad. Like no threatening other posters, no calling them out to make them go in there. Your participation in there would be completely your choice. I think it would be a cesspool if it is used, but some people clearly need to get this stuff out of their system on a daily basis that they don't feel they can be civil for very long in here as I have requested multiple times.

It is a thought. I don't want to be so stifling that people leave because of it, but at the same time, there are real desires among many others to keep the PF civil.
I don't particularly like the idea and most likely would eschew participation. But if it would help to clean up the Planet as a whole, I would say why not. If its unintended consequences are problematic, pulling the plug should be simple enough.

Once again, thanks for all you do.

Cheers, BostonTim
 
I don't particularly like the idea and most likely would eschew participation. But if it would help to clean up the Planet as a whole, I would say why not. If its unintended consequences are problematic, pulling the plug should be simple enough.

Once again, thanks for all you do.

Cheers, BostonTim
I ditto BT. I probably wouldn't participate since I don't enjoy engaging in verbal riots on purpose. It's all I can do to attempt to explain rational thought to a few here, over and over again. So, no thanks from me; others can certainly have at it though.
 
Not really sure what I think about it yet other than to say if it gets the attacking vitriol out of here so we can keep this forum I'm for it.
 
the thing is, if it did those people doing so could be given a timeout or banned without anyone feeling ganged up on. black and white rule. it leaves that forum, you have "x" consequence. period.
 

Maybe but shit from th PR forum rarely spillis over into the regular forum.
 

Oh believe me I see it all. But you are yer own worst enemy.
 
Hey UT. What do you think is the difference between here and BSU? I mean its unmoderated but we all just mostly get along.

Is just the personalities, what would you thnk?
 
In general I am a proponent of free speech and any efforts to protect or expand it. It seems minimal effort to create, and as others have indicated if it becomes a problem seems easy enough to pull the plug, so I'm definitely for it. That being said I can't envision I personally would use it, for a variety of reasons. So if it were not made, I wouldn't exactly be broken up about it.
 
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