Yesterday, 08:07 AM
(Yesterday, 02:37 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: From what I recall of the period when the meme channel was on the discord, there was still a fairly constant stream of people posting meme stuff to the other channels and either having to be reminded to use the meme channel or catching themselves after they'd done it and then posting something apologizing and stating they'd moved it. Or mods/admins having to move it for them. All of which is to say that even with the meme channel a fair bit of time on the other channels was taken up with trying to herd the cats into using/sticking to the meme channel.
I rather suspect that an 'ideas and blurts' channel would suffer from the same issue and possibly even be worse since it seems likely that the line between an actual thought out statement vs a 'blurt' could be fuzzy and open to interpretation/debate. I'm also not really a fan of excusing people from the standard rules and expectations of polite conversation just because they are online or young or whatever their excuse may be for feeling they should be exempt from such things.
All up I don't support this idea.
Todd
Thanks for the response.
1) These points are definitely true, however I think that the idea-blurting would perhaps still have less spill-over than the meme related behavior. I can't really generate the data on this, but I feel that a one to two week test of the idea might not hurt.
2)IMO the goal is not so much about exempting as it is streamlining a common user behavior. I think if it is about exempting, then there should perhaps be more of a crack down(or maybe just a statement) on the blurts as I think its overall pretty rampant at the moment
That is my two cents anyhow, not feeling too strongly about it.