politics and jambands.ca

[snarfmaster C]

i'm really glad that the china in the olympics topic isn't in the politics forum.

i maintain my objection to separating political discussions from this board. call me simple, but i don't check into all the different subforums.

politics are a part of every day life. videogames, sports, recipes, buy/sell listings are very different, in my mind, and do belong in separate "special interest" boxes. politics, though, affect us all, always, and we can all benefit from reading other peoples' perspectives... something that will only happen if there is good participation in the discussion (facilitated by having the threads in a forum people actually visit).

your thoughts??

[Freak By Night]

I disagree with just about everything in your post.

It doesn't take very much effort to look at sub-forums.

Sports affects me way more than politics does. Videogames, not so much.

[jonyak]

I disagree with everything said by everyone before me and after me.

[Davey Boy 2.0]

jonyak is so smart & handsome

[phorbesie]

i like having the separate forum(s). i check it all the time, and it's good to have all the topics easy to find (at hand there) for when i want to add something.

not that i'd mind having those topics here...

but i do like that some days when i feel like getting into it, i can, while at other times i can just leave it there if i'm not in the mood to get riled up!

[Velvet]

I never check the other forums and I bet I miss a lot. I wish there was only one forum.

[Schwa.]

can we get a slip forum please!?!

[bagochips]

I am pro sub-forums. Haven't we had this discussion a few times already?

[Hal Johnson]

Forum-discussion-forum-for-already-discussed-forums please.

Edited March 20, 2008 by Guest

[phishtaper]

i intentionally put this in the sanctuary because i felt it crossed over different subforums and wanted to make sure the jocks got their say as much as the geeks.

[bouche]

there is a reason that this is called a GENERAL forum.

[Birdy]

I think the video forum is ridiculous.

Youtube videos can be of anything. Videos shouldn't be a subforum. They should be included wherever, whenever.

Sometimes the politics forum is a snoozefest as there's only really about 5 or 6 or 7 main contributors around there... say if 1 or 2 of them go on a hiatus for any given period of time, the place quickly becomes booorrrrrrinnnnng.

I wish more people who were interested in politics clicked in there once in a while. It can be entertaining.

[MarcO]

I totally forget about the subforums (like politics) for weeks at a time.

[dancingbear]

I disagree with everything said by everyone before me and after me.

that is hilarious!

as i booked marked cavern...i do not even think i knew other forums existed...ONE forum please.

[Jakis]

I love the videos forum. When I am bored I can spend hours going through all the videos.

[jonyak]

jonyak is so smart & handsome

oh you got me!!

Edited March 20, 2008 by Guest

[Davey Boy 2.0]

no i didn't

[snarfmaster C]

there is a reason that this is called a GENERAL forum.

i don't understand this point.

and sorry to re-visit an old discussion.

i miss political threads and the kind of interest they stirred up in the *general* forum.

i don't visit the other forums much at all.

[Velvet]

So this forum is just for generals?

By the way, I think it's funny how we tricked Mike into creating a Slip forum and proving to us that creating a forum automatically diminishes interest and hits.

And the argument I've heard made (we're trying to teach people to go to other forums) is as weak as the argument Eugene has made regarding Zaphod's early shows - that they're trying to train the Ottawa public to go to bars early.

Thanks for the training oppourtunities, but I don't want 'em.

[Hux]

I think being able to easily ignore a segregated politics folder is a good thing...but sometimes I just have to wade into the candy shop.

[Schwa.]

Now that's politically incorrect.

[bokonon]

I don't often check the other forums as I have a tab open in my browser for all the sites I use frequently throughout the day, one tab for jambands is enough for me, any more and I wouldn't be able to read the titles of the tabs.

[d_rawk]

I like the politics subforum. It can get a bit incestuous, as Birdy hinted at - and could always use some fresh meat - but lends itself to lengthier discussions than would happen here in the general forum / Sanctuary / whatever (even if everyone is just always saying the same old thing in different threads). It has a different vibe and style.

Politics discussions in the general forum were cool because they had more breadth. Politics discussions in the politics forum are cool because they have more depth.

[boiler]

Jambands.ca is not a model for democracy. How's that for politics fer ya? I liked the thread here laminator, but |I think I's a waste of time.I could give a shit myself. I come here for music shit anyway, not politics. I can go on MSN for news on politics. I do like the bit-torrent sub fourm. That's really handy, off to the side away from all the other crap. I think the slip forum's got to go, seriously. It served it's purpose when every other thread was about the slip. I say, get rid of it, or... add a couple other bands that we can talk about, like the Drive By Truckers, a band we should be talking about. I'm sorry, but it's really stupid to have only the slip with their own forum. Doesn't anybody else have an opportunity to be "pushed" by jambands? That being said, even if there was a seperate DBT forum, nobody'd post in it consistently anyway.

In the end, whatever. This is bouche's site to do with it whatever in the hell he wants. Again, there is no democracy here.

[snarfmaster C]

Jambands.ca is not a model for democracy. How's that for politics fer ya?

well that much is obvious.