TalonMan said:
I don't see how that works - that's like saying, "Every post that has to do with Mario, should be pushed into one thread titled 'Nintendo'"...
Edit: Well, I take that back - Hylian's post made more sense, because he's breaking things down. The first one was just a general "Put everything in one post", which I didn't agree with. |
I'm not saying that every post having to do with Democrats or the left needs to be in one thread, or vice versa for Republicans and the right, I'm just saying we might benefit from having a thread for each major party to contain some of the sprawl of political topics. Like when primary season comes around, rather than have a different thread for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, California, and Super Tuesday results, the main Democratic Party thread could just update with news, and people could comment on it. Rather than a different thread for every one of the soon to be multiple dozen candidates in the Dem primary (or in 2016 it was the Republican primary that had this problem) you could just have the Democratic party thread update with news of the latest announcement/rally/etc. Like the Nintendo thread updates with news. Major news for Nintendo gets its own thread, and major political news would as well. But a lot of stuff could be condensed, which would be easier to maintain.
It would also create a space, not quite a safe space or anything, but a sort of home turf where it's understood that a particular group hangs out and it would be bad form to do obviously provocative things there. Like if you go into the official Playstation Nation thread and start shitting all over Sony, it'll be more likely to be frowned upon as deliberate provoking of Sony fans, than it would if you were to say, create a dedicated thread on the Sony board with criticism of the PS4. Similarly, if there were a Democratic Party thread and a Republican Party thread, then when Trump fans go into the Democratic thread or Bernie fans go into the Republican thread, it'll be easier to call them out for trolling if they go there to provoke people. Threads related to specific news events, like the recent shooting, or to game related politics like "Such and Such Developer Makes a Historically White Character Black!" or "Such and Such Country Outlaws Lootboxes!" would still have their own threads, and still work like they do now. Similarly, there's an official Legend of Zelda thread, and while major news like a game release gets its own topic, but a lot of simple discussion between Zelda fans happens in the official thread, as well as small updates and interviews with little tidbits and the like. In Politics, there are tons of threads talking about the latest outrage from Trump, and while some news around him warrants separate threads, like a Supreme Court nominee or the emergency declaration, his latest rally or tweet or his less consequential policy announcements don't all need their own threads and could go into a larger Trump discussion. Inevitably we'd probably need this for every American president because so much attention is drawn to them. To be clear, the Trump one would not be some partisan space, just the spot where smaller stuff around him goes, and would allow for criticism of him, as we wouldn't want it to just be VGChartz's The_Donald, and we wouldn't want the next president to be immune to criticism either.
As for elections having their own threads, I meant the general elections. So a thread for the midterms, the presidential general, off-year elections, etc. where results could be centralized and the discussions of the consequences could all go. Elections related to a particular party, like the primaries, could go in that party's thread. The rest of the stuff I mention here I'm not completely sold on, but I really think it would be a great benefit for each election to have one thread about them, and for it to be run by somebody without a history of trolling. There have been times I wanted to discuss an election but I saw the thread author and left immediately.
Hope that makes more sense.
