Two new sticky threads (discuss here)

[Pangloss]

I've added two new sticky threads to the Politics subforum. The first one is an FAQ and a collection of helpful reference links. This is intended as a user-contribution thread, especially with its third purpose, which is to serve as a reference collection for previous discussions on hot-button issues, like abortion, gun-control, etc. That's going to be a moderated thread, so expect your post to be deleted and its content added to a master reference list.

 

The second thread is intended as a rolling collection of interesting reading links. It is entirely user-driven. I'm sure we all read articles around the Web that for whatever reason don't come up in conversation here, but are still interesting and worth reading, and are therefore worth passing along to our fellow members. The idea is to keep the extraneous conversation in that thread to a bare minimum -- no discussion, just links to the articles. You can include a bit about what the article is about, but don't reply to a previous post's thread or content except to correct a broken link or add another article on the same subject. We want this thread to be easily searchable for potential use in discussions. Make sense?

 

Any questions or comments on either thread please post them here.

[iNow]

How is this supposed to be different than the whole forum we have called "Book Talk" in the Other Topics section, and why is it in Politics? I saw no mention of topic in your post. Thanks for any clarification of the intent and purpose.

[Pangloss]

Well this would focus specifically on articles, not books, and would focus specifically on articles related to politics. It's also meant to be topical -- Sundays in particular are really hot and heavy with political publishings all over the Web. I never have time to sort through them all, and always end up missing things that I later hear about in discussion.

 

This is meant as a kind of manual RSS feed for interesting political and current events stories.

 

By the way, I've got several items ready to go for both threads, but I'm trying to figure out how to switch off the double-post-merge feature so I can put them in a separate post. I may just have to wait 24 hours. I'm looking into it.

 

Also moderation is not turned on in the FAQ thread (I'm not sure yet if it can be switched on at the thread level; I'm looking into it), but it's cool to post away in either thread and I'll move or remove posts as needed.

 

Probably after I post a couple of examples it'll become more clear what I'm shooting for. I may not be explaining it very well.

Edited July 5, 2008 by Pangloss
multiple post merged

[DJBruce]

It posted in both forums and had a few questions. I did you want a brief description for the links and where those links I posted in the Frequentally Asked Questions section along the lines of what you had in mind.