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Admin Director Posts: 13046 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
In another thread I floated the idea of beginning a new discussion board for the discussion of politics (see Message 178). I'm going to do this, but I need the following:
Perdition has already volunteered to "own" the website, but I still need domain and website name suggestions. Suggestions about other things like color schemes, forums, categories of forums, etc., would probably be welcome, too.
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Perdition Member (Idle past 3268 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: |
It would seem to me that the domain name would come from the website name, if only to make it easy to remember how to get there.
Since this is your software, and it's kind of an offshoot of this website, do you have any stipulations on the name? Do you want to keep it as a debate (X vs Y) site, or more of a discussion site? Or are these questions that you're leaving open to whoever ends up running it?
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CosmicChimp Member Posts: 311 From: Muenchen Bayern Deutschland Joined: |
I'm just gonna throw out names for the domain or board as I come up with 'em.
Politicus Maximus
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Political Fusillade
Fusillade Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com What's up with the arrows... your message turned into this when I hit reply:
quote: You should see the PEEK mode
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Admin Director Posts: 13046 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
Perdition writes: Since this is your software, and it's kind of an offshoot of this website, do you have any stipulations on the name? Do you want to keep it as a debate (X vs Y) site, or more of a discussion site? I leave it to whoever runs it to make those decisions. I would only reserve software decisions to myself. For example, if I release a new update of dBoard then I would update the board's software, and the person running the board would only have a choice of the most convenient time. But I do have opinions. About debate versus discussion, it seems it could go either way. There's the conservative/liberal dichotomy that parallels creation/evolution, but in general there seems a greater variety of possible positions and views in politics.
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Admin Director Posts: 13046 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
Thanks for noticing those problems - I'll fix it tonight.
--Percy Edited by Admin, : Change author.
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Admin Director Posts: 13046 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
politicusmaximus.com is already taken (it's a blog), .net is available.
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Perdition Member (Idle past 3268 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: |
But I do have opinions. About debate versus discussion, it seems it could go either way. There's the conservative/liberal dichotomy that parallels creation/evolution, but in general there seems a greater variety of possible positions and views in politics. Quite true. One big difference in politics is that people can reside in many different camps depending on the topic as presented, whereas with Creation and Evolution, there are many flavors to creation and a couple for evolution, but people tend to be on one side or the other. I guess it would sort of end up being more of a discussion...much like the faith forums here. As for the name of the website, for some reason I kind of like PvP, The Prince versus The Pauper.
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Perdition Member (Idle past 3268 days) Posts: 1593 From: Wisconsin Joined: |
Another thought that occured to me: you could kind of keep the EvC "brand" and just call it "EVC Politics", or something similar. We could even have a little competition to see if some of the more creative posters could come up with what the EVC stands for as far as politics is concerned.
Edited by Perdition, : No reason given.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1285 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Road to Perdition?
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack Obama We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9202 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4 |
No suggestions on a name yet. I need to think more on it. But I would like to offer to assist you on getting everything up and running and whatever else is needed. I have a bit of free time with winter coming.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9202 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4 |
Damn, that's good. Real good.
The .com is already taken(the movie), but doesn't look like the .net is being used.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
The Pnyx Forum
Monticello House Within The Pomerium
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Jazzns Member (Idle past 3941 days) Posts: 2657 From: A Better America Joined: |
Did I miss something or did someone address why this is a problem for EvC such that it needs a seperate board?
Can you even escape politics in the EvC debate considering that the 'C' part of it is almost totally a political movement? I think forking on politics is a bad idea. EvC might be how we got here but this is a community that is much broader than that. It is what makes EvC such a nice place to visit on the internet. If someone wants a pure politics forum there are other places for that on the internet. I come here for the mix of science, skepticism, politics, and religion. It is those ingredients that makes this place great. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson
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Admin Director Posts: 13046 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.7 |
Thanks for offering to pitch in. There are two levels of control over a discussion board:
If some of this doesn't make sense, don't worry, it's actually easy and I'm available to answer any questions. I'm going with "http://www.politicusmaximus.net" unless I hear a better name by tonight, or unless someone wants more time to think up names. One more thing. While it wasn't part of my original motivation, I realize now that I stand to learn a lot as you set up the discussion board. A couple ways I could make things easier for customers (that's you) have already occurred to me. So don't hesitate to ask questions or make requests and suggestions.
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