Announcement: New Rules for the PF Philosophy forum beginning January 1, 2011

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New rules for the Philosophy Forum will take effect on January 1, 2011, aimed at fostering more academically rigorous discussions. Participants must reference published philosophers or researchers when starting new topics, and questions without references must be framed as requests for resource recommendations. The forum will also allow inquiries about standard definitions and terminology. Existing threads will be locked to ensure compliance with the new guidelines, which were developed in response to concerns about the forum's quality. The changes are intended to enhance the forum's academic integrity and maintain high discussion standards.
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Evo said:
You are not reading rule #2. It says This means that you can ask for links to books, websites, etc... on the philosophical topic, that's all, no discussion of the topic. It's extremely clear.

It evens give an example

I have added a clarification that these are the three OPTIONS for how a thread can be started, incase that wasn't obvious. Hopefully that helps.
That's clearer!

Not everyone understood that we have the option to apply rule 2 instead of rule 1; thanks for improving the text on that point.

However, I presented my post as a request for resources and just added a few general comments and background information. So I suppose that if a thread is started to request for resources then no comments are allowed at all, and if proper resources are found then a new thread must be started based on that resource, for discussion of that resource. Right?

So, what is still missing is the clarification that no comments are allowed at all - "that's strictly all" isn't clarified in the rule and is only obvious if it is already understood what is intended.
 

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