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Posted by JohnSmith on Oct-07-2002 23:49:

Political Forum

I have noticed that the Chill Out room has a lot of posts latelly about politics. maybe it would be a good idea to have a forum, just for this.

On the other hand, chill out room is a good place to have it, since lots of people will read it.

I'm not sure, what do you guys think?

I for one, have found this to be one of the BEST places to discuss politics on the web for two reasons, one that people are generally intelligent and peaceful (because they like trance, and we all know how smart that is!) and also because there are people from all over the world here.


Posted by Haunted on Oct-08-2002 00:30:

yea that would be a great idea


Posted by inatrance on Oct-08-2002 01:51:

I <3 politics :P


I would be there quite often


Posted by trancaholic on Oct-08-2002 07:43:

I've been thinking along the same lines. I think that it would be a good idea, and especially if the two other big subjects philosphy and religion could be discussed there as well.

I think it is a good idea since it will free these discussions from the stupid one-liners from people who really doesn't care about the subject, and, since there probably won't be as many new threads there as in the chill-out forum, we could do with e.g. one Saddam-thread as it wouldn't be pushed off the page, forcing somebody with another angle to start a new one.


Posted by ABTsportsline on Oct-08-2002 19:25:

i agree with trancaholic....
wouldn't be a bad idea to have it. there are too many posts of no value on the few prized political threads we have making them rather unbearable at times.

I like JohnSmith's idea, but i disagree with his saying that the people here are 'generally intelligent'..... may be the case, but considering the average age of the TA user is 16, and all they know about politics and whats going on in the world is from what they hear from their teacher or parents. Add to that nubile immaturity, and you have some of the quality of debates on here.

There are several of us who tend to be more open or have a better understand of whats going on, and we'd appreciate something along those lines. I don't care for those one-liners from TA's who pop in just to cause trouble... these are problems that i can almost guarantee would be eliminated if these threads were posted in a different forum.

-ABT-


Posted by Lira on Oct-08-2002 19:54:

As a student of Foreign Affair, could I be against it?

Yeah, let's have a polictical forum, the chill out room is already fool of these threads

Hey, ABT, all right, some of the users are "16, and all they know about politics and whats going on in the world is from what they hear from their teacher or parents", but some of us are really into it, and it's nice for us to share these points of view. There's no solution for this, is there?


Posted by ABTsportsline on Oct-09-2002 03:06:

so maaz, are you agreeing with me or disagreeing?

side note: where in brazil are you from? My wife is from around those parts.

-ABT-

*edit: scratch that, didn't notice "Brasilia" under the Location section under your avatar.*


Posted by inatrance on Oct-09-2002 03:28:

I think that 16 year olds would be dettered from visiting the political forum.. just because of the title of the room... unless they had something honest and thoughful to say....

unlike chillout where anyone and everyone just goes looks, replies



when it is in its own forum... someone would actually want to go talk about the subject
//edit heh woops, i agree with Robbie




<3 politics!


Posted by Pointy on Oct-09-2002 07:20:

Good idea, but it would have to be _heavily_ moderated if you wanted to keep it civilised. A Political Forum has the ability to start many many flame wars!


Posted by ABTsportsline on Oct-09-2002 15:24:

quote:
Originally posted by PointyDC
Good idea, but it would have to be _heavily_ moderated if you wanted to keep it civilised. A Political Forum has the ability to start many many flame wars!


LoL, no shit!

look what it does in the REAL world!

-ABT-


Posted by Lira on Oct-11-2002 14:04:

Just let all the mods from all the forums moderate it then... so many flame wars, so little time

quote:
Originally posted by ABTsportsline
so maaz, are you agreeing with me or disagreeing?

side note: where in brazil are you from? My wife is from around those parts.

-ABT-

*edit: scratch that, didn't notice "Brasilia" under the Location section under your avatar.*


I agree, but I think that though it's not good to have that kiddie-problem, there's no way to avoid it. The others will need to show enough maturity to deal with it. And, maybe, there's a genious kid or something, we never know

PS: Hey, where in Brazil is your wife from?


Posted by ABTsportsline on Oct-12-2002 03:39:

Santos.


Posted by Lira on Oct-12-2002 04:09:

quote:
Originally posted by ABTsportsline
Santos.


Cool, my mother's family is from Santos too

Er... I guess we should get back to the main topic, eh?


Posted by trancaholic on Oct-12-2002 07:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Maaz
Er... I guess we should get back to the main topic, eh?


Yes let's do that. How about it Swamper? Do we need to get some fixed amount of members to sign up here?


Posted by inatrance on Oct-12-2002 14:32:

quote:
Originally posted by trancaholic
Yes let's do that. How about it Swamper? Do we need to get some fixed amount of members to sign up here?


ha yes I can be official rallier if you want :P


I think maaz rallied once as well :P


Posted by Lira on Oct-13-2002 00:46:

quote:
Originally posted by inatrance
ha yes I can be official rallier if you want :P


I think maaz rallied once as well :P


Yeah, for the Ibero-American forum All we need to do is get at least 15 names, and so far we have:

1) Maaz
2) Inatrance
3) JohnSmith
4) Haunted
5) trancaholic
6) pontydc

hhmmm.... search the latest political threads, pm those who were most involved in it and ask them to come here

Anyway, I've got too many things to do right now... inatrance, it's up to you to keep rallying


Posted by ABTsportsline on Oct-13-2002 05:08:

i said i thought it was a good idea!

hrhrhrhr!


Posted by Lira on Oct-13-2002 05:12:

quote:
Originally posted by ABTsportsline
i said i thought it was a good idea!

hrhrhrhr!


That's why I had written "(?)" after your name Anyway, I've already fixed it


Posted by inatrance on Oct-13-2002 05:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Maaz
That's why I had written "(?)" after your name Anyway, I've already fixed it



all you people, I started a new thread :P in COR

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...&threadid=69273


Posted by DJ Sarah H on Oct-13-2002 13:50:

quote:
Originally posted by PointyDC
Good idea, but it would have to be _heavily_ moderated if you wanted to keep it civilised. A Political Forum has the ability to start many many flame wars!



we will need an international peace keeping force for that forum . . .


Posted by JohnSmith on Oct-13-2002 17:57:

LOL @ neo.

yeah, there would have to be mods.. and.. they would be looked at as censors no matter what they did.

and MAAZ:

Yeah, for the Ibero-American forum All we need to do is get at least 15 names, and so far we have:

1) Maaz
2) Inatrance
3) JohnSmith ??
4) Haunted
5) trancaholic
6) pontydc

I never said i was for it, i just brought up the topic.

after reading everyones opinion though, i think it's worth a try, so you can keep my name there i guess.

i also think sothis' idea of a "Girls" thread is a good one. I'm sure you'd have no trouble getting 15 people to support that one. I for one am getting tired of the slut threads, i'd like it if they were moved somewhere else.


Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Oct-13-2002 20:15:

its a great idea.. but like i said in my other post.. with the maturity of some of the members on this forum (myself included at times ) the amount of stupid argueing that will come from that forum will be immense. Just think of the post deletion rates!!!


Posted by .montecarlo. on Oct-14-2002 00:31:

count me in


Posted by JM on Oct-15-2002 17:49:

quote:
Originally posted by ABTsportsline

disagree with his saying that the people here are 'generally intelligent'..... may be the case, but considering the average age of the TA user is 16, and all they know about politics and whats going on in the world is from what they hear from their teacher or parents. Add to that nubile immaturity, and you have some of the quality of debates on here.


haha. true. immature fools. well i'm so indifferent about the forum...acutally i kind of am against it, just for the above reason.....i will personally never post in there - there's people with suck skewed point of view from mine that, to me, it's not worth wasting any time debating. i debate politics every day with people around here in person - it is much better than sitting here writing for 1 hour getting one page of thoughts accross....i'd rather write a book on my thoughts and opinions.

nevertheless, i've had some good discussions here with some ppl in the past.

>JM<


Posted by trancedfarmer on Oct-15-2002 22:29:

quote:
Originally posted by inatrance
I think that 16 year olds would be dettered from visiting the political forum.. just because of the title of the room... unless they had something honest and thoughful to say....

unlike chillout where anyone and everyone just goes looks, replies



when it is in its own forum... someone would actually want to go talk about the subject
//edit heh woops, i agree with Robbie




<3 politics!


arent you sixteen inatrance?....



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