Religion sticky topic in OT...?

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#1 chessmaster1989
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Well, I, and many people, are getting sick of the various religion threads that are just repeats of "Are you a Christian/Muslim? Why/why not?" type threads popping up over and over in OT.

So, why not just create a sticky for that kind of discussion?

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#2 warbmxjohn
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I agree because they all boil down to the same posters and the same content every single time, no matter who starts them or what the intent of the discussion is. I think this is one of those things that will likely not change.

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#3 Teenaged
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No I disagree. The thread would get chaotic as all religious discussions will be carried out there. Most people wont be able to follow cause the pace will be fast and the digging up of "what post I wanted to comment on" would be ...well, an unrealistic task.

It will be messy and chaotic. That's my opinion.

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#4 mfp16
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this would be great, I'm so sick and tired of being preached to in every other topic. Please, a sticky topic would be fantastic.
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#5 spazzx625
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Religion is far too broad a topic to confine to a stickied thread, unfortunately.
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#6 mfp16
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Religion is far too broad a topic to confine to a stickied thread, unfortunately.spazzx625
so the solution is to have OT be filled with 50% religion topics? Half of which are people trying to convert people?
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#7 spazzx625
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"]Religion is far too broad a topic to confine to a stickied thread, unfortunately.mfp16
so the solution is to have OT be filled with 50% religion topics? Half of which are people trying to convert people?

50%? I don't think so. And we are working on updating the religious guidelines now.
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#8 MAILER_DAEMON
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"]Religion is far too broad a topic to confine to a stickied thread, unfortunately.mfp16
so the solution is to have OT be filled with 50% religion topics? Half of which are people trying to convert people?

Actually, that's only one of the major problems with religion topics in OT. There's going to be some pretty big changes soon.

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#9 optiow
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I agree, everyone can put their stuff in there. ~because I see the same old threads at least once a day:x
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#10 fastesttruck
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a "Hide Topic" thing would work great here so that we only have to see the topic once, enter it, click to hide it and then never deal with it again. Tho if for some reason you want to see it again all that would be needed would be to view the list of hidden topics you have. Much like how the Watched Topic list can show you all of them at once.
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#11 markop2003
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It would be a good sticky but should be replaced each week with a different base post to change the topic ie "Evolution vs ID" or "If god is all powerfuland caring why is there still suffering" ect
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#12 LUEshiWithRICE
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So, here's a radical idea--what about a religion board?

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#13 markop2003
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So, here's a radical idea--what about a religion board?

LUEshiWithRICE
Well there is already a union on religion and philosophy, just making it an official board would be easy enough
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#14 spazzx625
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[QUOTE="LUEshiWithRICE"]

So, here's a radical idea--what about a religion board?

markop2003
Well there is already a union on religion and philosophy, just making it an official board would be easy enough

Making it, yeah...Enforcing it, no way. This is a video game forum, there is no need for an entire board dedicated to the topic.
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#15 Bourbons3
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I don't think it would be a good idea. It would soon get out of control if you had one single thread for religion in general. It would be even worse than it is now, when its spread across a few threads at any one time.
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#16 markop2003
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[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="LUEshiWithRICE"]

So, here's a radical idea--what about a religion board?

spazzx625
Well there is already a union on religion and philosophy, just making it an official board would be easy enough

Making it, yeah...Enforcing it, no way. This is a video game forum, there is no need for an entire board dedicated to the topic.

simple solution, leave it up to the current union mods to manage, maybe you could have it like a private union in that you can kick people from posting in the board
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#17 caddy
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[QUOTE="markop2003"] simple solution, leave it up to the current union mods to manage, maybe you could have it like a private union in that you can kick people from posting in the board

But union mods don't have to know the ToU, and they don't have the ability to moderate anything.
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#18 spazzx625
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[QUOTE="markop2003"] simple solution, leave it up to the current union mods to manage, maybe you could have it like a private union in that you can kick people from posting in the board

There already are unions dedicated to the topic...So basically you are just suggesting that people post in the unions.
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#19 mfp16
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"][QUOTE="markop2003"] simple solution, leave it up to the current union mods to manage, maybe you could have it like a private union in that you can kick people from posting in the board

There already are unions dedicated to the topic...So basically you are just suggesting that people post in the unions.

Frankly, thats the best solution to the problem that I can think of.... even though it wasn't really a suggestion :)
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#20 markop2003
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[QUOTE="spazzx625"][QUOTE="markop2003"] simple solution, leave it up to the current union mods to manage, maybe you could have it like a private union in that you can kick people from posting in the board

There already are unions dedicated to the topic...So basically you are just suggesting that people post in the unions.

Yes but have it put as an official board on the main GS forums page
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#21 JustPlainLucas
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People should have the right to post about religion whenever they want in OT. I think people are making it out to be a bigger problem than it actually is. Are they really that hard to ignore? Are you incapable of NOT clicking those threads? If you know how they're going to end up, don't even bother posting in them. Forcing people to post in a different board if they wanted to talk about religion would be considered discriminatory in my eyes.