Posted by Tabitha on December 1, 2004, at 13:34:08
In reply to I actually think better of you than that, Dr. Bob, posted by Dinah on December 1, 2004, at 9:53:06
I'll be interested in Dr Bob's reply too, but I can see how having a separate board could also potentially reduce strife. If a person is particularly riled up by political discussions, then they can avoid the board entirely. I thought the Faith board served a similar function. It looked to me like before Faith was started, some people were just annoyed by having the topic brought up on other boards, and didn't want to read posts with religious topics. By giving the topic its own board, the posts are sort of corralled over there and folks can enter (or not) at will. So in a way a separate board can keep folks safe from potentially hot topics.
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