Humanities now called Debate.

DeVore

Humanities was set up to be an Arts and Literature board but it wandered into being a general Debating board, which is cool but the name was a minomer.

Nothing has changed except the name and some posts being moved to the Politics board.

CT and Gandie... can you move any overtly political threads over to the Politics board.

Thanks, sorry to drop this on your guys without warning but I was in a "do stuff" mood tonight.

DeV.

Baz_

very efficient indeed.

why did you decide to make new boards, I haven't heard a call for a politics board in months, although I like the idea of a lan board.

DadaKopf

Grrr, I thought humanities was fine, not a misnomer at all. It brought a whole load of disiplines together into one forum which was good. Saved download time between forums!

I'm just a little concerned, DeV, that arguments might arise between posters and mods about having threads moved because they'll be off topic. Not a big problem yet, it's just the nature of having a 'politics' board and a general 'debate' board - humanities, I felt, was perfectly cross-disciplinary: politics, philosophy, culture, economics. It brought a lot of ideas and people together.

'Debate' just seems like a non sequitir, better off thinking up a more leading name if you intend to keep the politics and debate boards separate. I mean, all boards are for debating .

Just my two cents.

Chaos-Engine

I'm with Dadakopf on this one... I mean Politics... That spans Philosopy, Economics and all the pschology behind macrosocial issues...
And the word Debate... A Forum about debate with a seperate forum for Politics... Its laughable... I mean why not rename the "DEBATE" forum to "Rants and Woffels"...
If anything gets too directional in the "Debate" forum (as it should if its a debate) it will get moved by the overly oppressive MODS....

How about leaving it the way it was... Just seperate the rants to "Afterhours"(maybe renamed) and the serious oppionion driven stuff to "Humanities/Debates".... A politics forum as far as i can see can't function as PURE politics and a Debates forum cannot function without politics(which is in everything in life).

amp

Oh teh humanity!

DeVore

Actually, I agree. Back to Humanities, but the Politics board stays.

DeV.

nesf

I agree with a seperate politics board.. too many damn political topics on the humanitites board at times, and some ppl had a habit of making abstract topics into an argument over political agenda's which might contain the veiwpoint expressed in the original topic.