Given the love/hate (or in some cases hate/hate) feelings some people here have towards political and other serious issues, I think we should introduce a system of "tags" for these kinds of posts in the Hard Light section of HLP. That way, people can have some idea of what threads are about before they click them (given the, uh, "creative" thread titles often used
), and decide whether or not they want to read it. You could have:
[POL] - politics
[ECO] - economics
[ENV] - environmental
[REL] - religion
etc. to do this. Simply put the tag in the thread title when you create it. That way, people know if they are going to look at a potentially contentious thread, and steer clear or dive in depending what they want to read.
I suggest this is entirely voluntary - I'll be doing it from now on - but I hope it'll catch on, because the atmosphere has soured slightly of late, with Liberator in particular feeling under pressure because of some of his views, and Kazan getting ever more worked up about things (not that they're the only ones). Of course, it could be worked into the board system (I dunno, perhaps have a few new Message Icons to choose from when creating a new topic?), but that might be tricky (me knows nothing about forum coding).
Anyway, hope you like this idea.
Cheers!
pyro
