Do we want a non-religious debate forum?

[Abraxas]

I have been considering for a few days whether to spend the 2000 (before it goes up!) on a new forum for "Non-religious Debate". It would have the same rules as any of the other debate forums, just that it would be specifically for topics that have little to no connection to religion, such as politics, sports, hobbies, etc. Before I shell out, I was wondering if anyone would use the forum to see if it was going to be valuable or just clutter for the community. Any thoughts?

[LiamOS]

If I'm not mistaken, this forum is in fact meant only for religious debate.

That said, however, one certainly would be rather interesting.

[Lux]

I'd use that subforum if it was added. However, Otseng specifically asks that we don't start threads that have nothing to do with religion (in the Welcome page), so you'd probably have to ask him if that'd be ok.

[Abraxas]

If I'm not mistaken, this forum is in fact meant only for religious debate.

That said, however, one certainly would be rather interesting.

That is certainly the primary focus, yes, though there are other forums like general chat or even digital photography that fall outside of religious content. If osteng or McCulloch says they don't want any place for topics outside of religion to be debated, I'll leave it at that, but if the community wants a place to debate whether Captain Kirk could take Darth Vader, I'll spend the tokens on it.

[otseng]

If I'm not mistaken, this forum is in fact meant only for religious debate.

That said, however, one certainly would be rather interesting.

That is certainly the primary focus, yes, though there are other forums like general chat or even digital photography that fall outside of religious content. If osteng or McCulloch says they don't want any place for topics outside of religion to be debated, I'll leave it at that, but if the community wants a place to debate whether Captain Kirk could take Darth Vader, I'll spend the tokens on it.

I would not be opposed to it and be willing to give it a try.

[McCulloch]

I would not be opposed to it and be willing to give it a try.

Sure why not. The forums we have that are not for religion, general chat etc. are not specifically debate forums. It might be interesting to have a debate forum for non-religious topics.

I have possibly two suggestions. Firstly, if it is being hosted on debatingchristianity.com that the same rules of debate apply. Secondly, perhaps the general area of might be too non-specific. Could Science, Arts, Politics, History or "Who's Cuisine Reigns Supreme? " be more specific?

[Lux]

I would not be opposed to it and be willing to give it a try.

Sure why not. The forums we have that are not for religion, general chat etc. are not specifically debate forums. It might be interesting to have a debate forum for non-religious topics.

I have possibly two suggestions. Firstly, if it is being hosted on debatingchristianity.com that the same rules of debate apply. Secondly, perhaps the general area of might be too non-specific. Could Science, Arts, Politics, History or "Who's Cuisine Reigns Supreme? " be more specific?

If it's a debate forum, who would be the moderator(s)? All the other user-requested subforums are moderated by the requester (except for the Islam subforum), but those are discussion subforums.

[Kuan]

I think a sports section would be a great addition. Id help pitch in for it too.

[Abraxas]

I'd rather not specialize it if I can avoid it, I was thinking of something that would give people the ability to debate whatever topic they wished to within reason unless we get a lot of people to shell out for a lot of subforums to cover everything (or McCulloch could buy out all possible character combinations for forum names.

As for moderators, I presumed the normal moderating staff would cover it, and do so with the same rules as befit any other debate forum here.

[Kuan]

Thats a good idea too, but in the long term, woudnt it get kind of messy and confusing?