New Forum: Science Fiction Media!

ZapperZ

Just the way we like it!

Zz.

PeterJ

I don't think you mean that. Or I hope not.

Andre

Is there any rationale why scifi is a subforum of the lounge, whereas PW&A, photo stuff and games, etc, etc are subforums of General Discussion?

Greg Bernhardt

One is within the realm of science, the others arguably aren't. Also we don't want to disrupt the feel and organization of the community when we took out S&D.

Ryan_m_b

Rhetoric really does intrigue me. If you think discussing and teaching mainstream science (and for that matter certain forums in the lounge) is dull and cosy (as though cosy was a negative) then why are you here? S&D was an attractor for crackpottery and that's simply not what we do here. There are plenty of other places that allow it.

Ivan Seeking

I love the new forum.

S&D was always a difficult forum. I ran it for eight years and the staff ran it for almost another year and a half. It was always a struggle to raise the level off discussion to something worthy of the PF. I think for a number of years the forum was mostly respectable, productive, and often interesting, but the amount of work required for a volunteer staff is just too much. It is a magnet for problems. In the end I couldn't take it any more and neither could the staff. As much as I hate to see it go, I can completely understand the decision to call it quits. With that, I thought this was the perfect last post for S&D.

Fredrik

My post count increased when I made a post there. Is it supposed to?

Greg Bernhardt

Fixed, thanks

dlgoff

What a nice change. Give micromass a medal.

tahayassen

Erm... I'm guilty of getting every single post that I posted in that forum infracted by a mod. :S

Greg Bernhardt

We've expanded the forum to include the "Fantasy" genre

Evo

YAY!!! I was just about to restart Raymond Feist's "Magician" and "Riftwar" series.