• Somewhere to post opinion pieces
    13 replies, posted
I think it's good to read and discuss opinion pieces, especially political ones. They might articulate some points better and clearer than you can when discussing news or even discuss a new angle you haven't seen before. It would be kinda like the a debate forum but more conducive to discussion imo, and shouldn't die off. I can understand these having no place in News sections, but maybe a Polidicks/SH subforum for opinion pieces would be a good idea?
Oh hey, it's five years ago, when it worked out so well the last time.
This is an intense post! wew But yeah we have a place to post opinion piece videos. Why can't we have a place to post opinion piece written articles? What is it about the written word that gets mouths frothing and shit flying?
I get the point, but I kind of figure that there's more to discuss than the nuances of different ideology. That's not really what I meant and the number of opinion pieces that are actually about that VS other more interesting discussions is pretty minor. Not even necessarily political, that was just the first most obvious idea I thought of. Just 'non news' articles are interesting to read, whatever the subject.
Online forums are not a good place for this. It will end in tears 100% of the time.
I just post them in related news threads if they're relevant. Also iunno, it seems like a subforum dedicated to news pieces would wind up like the videos section where 99% of the political stuff that gets posted is awful garbage that the OP only posted because it conveniently reaffirms his world-view.
Maybe make it a containment thing, written and video opinion pieces go there. Make videos section less political and more fun whilst simulataneously allowing people a place to discuss the advantages of Ayn "rapist? more like protagonist!" Randian style free market capitalism. Allow religious stuff like the invisible hand of the market in there too.
wtf are you talking about?
I don't think it is a great idea. By all means post links to articles as references or whatever but I think dedicated threads or a dedicated forum to opinion pieces is doomed to fail.
whoah
I was thinking recently that Newpunch isn't that bad. But then I realized I have a fuck load of scripts installed to fix it, while old punch was completely fine from the get go. I still find a lot of the changes questionable at best.
We definitely don't need three subforums. Personally I'd be okay with opinion pieces being posted in SH with Polidicks remaining strictly non-opinion reporting. Ideally there would be some wiggle room for "analysis" articles that combine facts and statistics with an opinion driving the article but I don't really think the mods would be interested in micromanaging every single thread that gets posted.
Eh maybe not look at the Tf2 crits thread as an example. they will never end. People do NOT like to admit their faults
imo if opinion pieces should be posted anywhere it should be polidicks. because opinions are like dicks, everyone loves to shove it down people's throats.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.