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Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:21 am
by Sekha
They are extremely long and it is very difficult to keep track of the various sub-topics that eventually get incorporated in those threads and become buried under dozen of other pages.

Wouldn't it be appropriate to create dedicated sub-forums and avoid merging all the threads?

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:22 pm
by Modus.Ponens
The arguments repeat themselves. It's not necessary to read the entire rebirth debate to know the arguments. It's useful to group them in one central thread since it's a frequent question that, if not dealt as the way it's been dealt with, these particular questions would be a plague on the forum.

The creation of subforums should be avoided unless there is demand. And a subforum should be a category of discussions not a one topic discussion.

My 2 cents

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:53 pm
by DNS
Modus.Ponens wrote:The arguments repeat themselves. It's not necessary to read the entire rebirth debate to know the arguments. It's useful to group them in one central thread since it's a frequent question that, if not dealt as the way it's been dealt with, these particular questions would be a plague on the forum.

The creation of subforums should be avoided unless there is demand. And a subforum should be a category of discussions not a one topic discussion.

My 2 cents
:goodpost:

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:33 pm
by Mawkish1983
Modus.Ponens wrote:The arguments repeat themselves. It's not necessary to read the entire rebirth debate to know the arguments. It's useful to group them in one central thread since it's a frequent question that, if not dealt as the way it's been dealt with, these particular questions would be a plague on the forum.

The creation of subforums should be avoided unless there is demand. And a subforum should be a category of discussions not a one topic discussion.

My 2 cents
Agreed

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:57 pm
by Kim OHara
The endless debate is a problem - not just in Buddhist forums, either:
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(xkcd, http://xkcd.com/1166/)
The "great debate" threads are one way of dealing with it and do have the advantage that they let the rest of us get on with our lives.

:juggling:
Kim

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:07 pm
by SDC
Modus.Ponens wrote:The arguments repeat themselves. It's not necessary to read the entire rebirth debate to know the arguments. It's useful to group them in one central thread since it's a frequent question that, if not dealt as the way it's been dealt with, these particular questions would be a plague on the forum.

The creation of subforums should be avoided unless there is demand. And a subforum should be a category of discussions not a one topic discussion.

My 2 cents
This.

Re: Those "great debate" threads

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:30 pm
by retrofuturist
Greetings,

Yep - MP's pretty much got it.

:goodpost:

Metta,
Retro. :)