Protesting the deficit commission and a woman throwing a cat in a trash can

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Both worthy topics in their own way. Both interesting and current.

But why are they in the same forum?

Why do we not have top-level forum GENERAL DISCUSSION: POLICY AND POLITICS?

We used to have such a thing, back in what Skinner lamented as the "good old days" of DU.

How hard is it to create such a forum?

Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
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Research Forum
General Discussion
General Discussion: Policy & Politics
General Discussion: Presidency
The DU Lounge

There... see how nice that looks?

[quinnox]

1. If this was done, then

General Discussion should be called something like "General Discussion - non political" so that all the political topics would go into the politics forum.

I agree sometimes it can seem strange to have such a potpourri of topics in this forum, but at the same time, it can be part of its charm too.

[uppityperson]

2. gd:pres used to be gs:politics, I'd like to see it go back to that.

let gd be for the other gd stuff

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Some people like the President forum and that's cool.

It's not hard to add a forum and there's no reason to take away something people like.

But a politics site without a top-level politics forum is kind of weird.

[Matariki]

4. personally I like it the way it is.

easier to follow threads in one forum and GD is a mix of current topics - from petty to serious. :shrug:

[Rhiannon12866]

5. A lot of what's posted in GD these days used to be Lounge threads, IMHO...

There is rarely anything political in The Lounge anymore... :shrug: