Is there any other board on the internet that uses a Proposed New Topics Forum system?
Has any other board copied this model because they thought it was a good idea?
I am not saying that an absence of boards using this system necessarily means it is a bad idea but at the same time I do not believe that other boards will adopt it.
I think it is too beaucratic and stifles debate. I will take a example from history. Europe regulated religion. Religion is weak there. The United States offered more liberty in regards to religion and it blossomed. I do not see any catastrophic results from bad threads being opened. Worst case scenario if someone opens a bad thread it is closed. I think boards that offer more freedom are going to be more popular and have a wider group of participants. One poster here said that traffic in a science related forum here is way down and blamed it on the new system. I think the costs are higher than any real benefits.