Any chance of banning hot topics

[Bones]

First my main push for the separation is the fact that EE often includes arcade and video game related topics. If you were right about this then I would have just left it some time ago.

Fair enough....

Saint and the other mods can take care of themselves. This is not a labor issue. Do you know the system that each mod uses to check things out?

No I do not. I only assume that the postings have to be viewed & read to be moderated.

Can you really not see that more people would go back to the EE forum and you can still have your debates? Where's the harm?

I simply do not know if this would attract a larger audience & no, I see no harm.

You have been critical but have not explained how it will harm your experience on this board.

This will not harm my experience on this board & I only gave my opinion. How you view my opinion is your business, if you see it as being critical that is unfortunate.



As I said earlier, lets move forward.

[Crazy Cooter]

Those that don't want politics mixed with arcades don't have to have it.

You can already do that though, don't read or don't respond to that thread.
Everything else is just that: Everything else.

[GGKoul]

We need a Control Panel discussion thread here before we a Political/Religion thread.

[GGKoul]

My answer in another thread..

No we don't need one... As there will be MORE mud slinging in this Debate board then good.

Plus having a Debate only board will bring Debate first people to the forum then BYOAC first people who happen to like Debating.  As 99% of the people that on are this forum found this site because they were interested in BYOAC first... not debating.

As I for one don't want see more TAPilots on this forum.  As we should be debating the concepts of building Arcade Controls, and not get in to a hard core debate on Religion and Politics were peoples feelings get hurt.  I say, we "ban" these topics instead of building another forum.

I'm Canadian, and I travel to the US all the time for work.  And there is a couple of small talk topics I don't bring up with my American colleagues...  Gun Control, Who you voted for and Reglion.  As there is nothing I can say nor they can say that will change mine or there outlook to the world.

And I don't want my favourite forum to become a place of "bickering" between members that are here to share experiences building Arcade Controls.

[quarterback]

Since both you and CC touched on the same topic, but yours is later in the thread, I'll just quote your post:

No we don't need one... As there will be MORE mud slinging in this Debate board then good.

Plus having a Debate only board will bring Debate first people to the forum then BYOAC first people who happen to like Debating.

[quarterback]

Everything else is just that: Everything else.

[tommy]

I see no need in splitting up the EE , whats so hard about not reading a thread if its not what your looking for in a topic.

[GGKoul]

I see no need in splitting up the EE , whats so hard about not reading a thread if its not what your looking for in a topic.

Thats appears to be too hard for people... 

[APFelon]

Not difficult at all.

Let's say you are a die hard Democrat and you flip on your digital cable and hit "channel menu". And let's say that 80% of the titles of programs bash Democrats, Clinton, Kerry Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrat heirarchy.

OR, let's say that you are a die hard Republican, and all of the titles of the programs bash Reagan, W, etc, etc, etc...

How long would it take you do complain to the cable company or cancel your cable subscription outright, despite the fact that you never watch the programs?

Look, in my initial response (with much verbal flare and dramatization because that's what I do) all I was advocating was precisely what has come to congeal with an opinion poll and debate on this very thread: Split off the EE forum from political hot topics and create a subforum dedicated to it.

And I don't quite understand why such debate has raged around the idea, frankly. In the simplist terms, we get a new forum dedicated to elephants versus donkeys and the endless rantings of creationists and Darwinists, Euro opinions on US foreign policies and a slimy pit where abortion is discussed... and EE is reserved for goofy crap we spot on the Internet or whatever (as it used to be).

AND, for those of us who won't visit the new forum at all (me), we won't have to deal with that nagging voice in the back of our heads when we answer technical questions (IE he is wondering how coin mechs work, but he believes that an alien spaceship is coming to take him away to a promised planet... should I even bother answering this guy when he is clearly out of his mind?)

OR, if someone doesn't agree with me for some view of some sort... do you think HE would bother answering my questions if he knew of the beliefs I held?

Grudges last, hard feelings remain and vendettas for some are eternal.

I say lop that forum in half with something REALLY heavy and let the kids play that roped off area.

Or at LEAST dedicate the EE forum for debates of political and philosophical nature and move all of the fun/fluff to the Misc. subforum. This forum is old enough to consider that a big population may call for stronger modding and topic isolation.

APf

[APFelon]

Oh, and Peale- I don't understand why I would be insulted by his comments, either.

THIS POST IS RIDICULOUS.

He dismissed my ideas outright with a rude statement.

Just because you do not have the ability to control your impulsive reactions does not warrant an overhaul of what is obviously a popular forum in which many individuals frequent and are doing little harm.

Insinuated that Monkey and I have no self control.

The solution is easy and attacking individuals or groups who post in this forum because you don't like the subject matter is appalling and in my opinion immature.

And we are immature.

You have just illustrated the ugly side perfectly with your comments.

Implied that I embody the ugliness on this forum with my comments, which were simply suggestions and opinions.

I would understand your frustration if the remaining forums were crawling with off subject ravings but this is rarely the case so grow up or shut up.

And my opinions didn't fly, so he told me to shut up.

How on EARTH could I have been insulted by that? 

APf

[Crazy Cooter]

Right now, the EE forum has maybe 3 topics that could possibly offend someone.  1 political, 1 religious, and 1 racial.

I don't see that as something that warrants a separate discussion board.  All 3 are appropriately titled so you'd know what the topic is before you clicked the link.  Would you keep your cable company if 99% of the channels were arcade related and the other 1% had a program guide?  I think that would be a more accurate representation of this forum (as a whole).

Who cares if somebody thinks an alien ship is coming for them?  If they want to know how coin mechs work, tell them.  What somebody thinks shouldn't have any influence on how you treat them.

[screaming]

  Wait a second, back up.

  Am I missing something here?  Isn't this an Arcade Controls message board? I don't know about you guys, but if I have a problem or question about anything arcade, electrical or even computers, or even if I'm looking for a new PacMan Jr. thumper, I know this is BBS is the place to be. 

  So, then, tell me again what's so wrong about having everything else go into an Everything Else forum?  ..And then when you're done with that, please tell me again why you need to log on to the Arcade Controls BBS and not talk about arcades in the Everything Else forum?

  Why is it such a big deal?  If you don't like everything else, why don't you just stop going into the Everything Else forum?  That forum has nothing to do with arcades and presumably that's why you're here in the first place... right?

*shrug*

-sab

[screaming]

Oh, and if there does end up being a new debate forum I vote this is the first thread to get moved to it!

-sab

[Shape D.]

I'd just like to know what your looking for in the EE forum that you would need the other stuff out of there.

If you need control panel advice, questions on building a cab, hardware questions you'd look in the main forum.

questions about front ends and any other sorftware would go into the software forum.

questions about your monitor? check out the monitor forum.

need artwork help or advice........artwork forum

any audio related questions, speaker help would go in the audio/mp3 forum.

have a question about a pinball machine?   --> arcade miscelaneous.

whats really left for byoac topics that you need to learn? EE is filled with the knee high layers of drudge because thats where it goes, and theres no need to post any arcade related topics in there cuz' they are covered everywhere else.

[quarterback]

So, then, tell me again what's so wrong about having everything else go into an Everything Else forum?

[screaming]

  So, then, tell me again what's so wrong about having everything else go into an Everything Else forum?

So then, tell me again what's so wrong about having nasty-debate go into a nasty-debate forum?

   I find this post offensive and I would like for it to be moved out of this otherwise useful thread.

  Thanks.

-sab

[GGKoul]