Moderated Politics Sub-Forum

[Adam Richards]

Starting this thread, I know I'm probably going to get a ton of IMs/PMs/e-mails in the next 24 hours saying "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?"

Recently, political discussion rose once again, in the form of op-ed articles being posted in the Chit-Chat section. I know we had several instances of such things in the past (banning of political advertisements, etc.), yet there hasn't been a definite decision on what to do with threads that bring up ideological and political discussions.

Since I haven't seen this idea be brought forward yet, why not have a Politics Sub-Forum, moderated by default so people don't incite flame wars in a few minutes before moderators can respond to the issue.

Politics are a real thing in any community, especially one as large as ChiefDelphi, and shoving them aside and pretending the notion of political discussion doesn't exist isn't an option.

I'd like to recommend that a group of neutral moderators be placed in control of the forum to monitor and approve posts. Furthermore, I'd also like to recommend that the group of moderators be rotated in a cycle every few weeks or months so there isn't any allegations that the moderators lean towards one side of an argument or another.