Guts' intestines said:(so I'm guessing you meant xenophobic, maybe)
I don't think there's a word for what he meant to be honest.
Guts' intestines said:However, I DO agree with the fact that anyone should be able to bring up whatever idea they have (as long as it involves Berserk and isn't something that already has happened) to Speculation Nation, no matter how crazy it is, so if I wanted to stake something that is a million to one .
Which is the case already. I don't even know why this is being brought up.
Guts' intestines said:So I have an idea, how about a thread within Speculation nation that's all for General speculation that doesn't have the necessary amount of evidence to be considered something that can be proven one way or another.
Bah, what difference would that make? It's not as if we've got too many threads. I understand your point about people not having any basis for their theories, but it's already the case most of the time anyway. That isn't a problem as long as they acknowledge that fact and accept the possibility of other members dismissing their ideas.
Guts' intestines said:That way the Admins don't have to go around responding to threads that are just based on far out bullshit. In the cases that an Admin thinks that a certain theory was undeserving of Speculation Nation, the poster should have the right to present their side of the argument and then convince the hopefully objective Admin to let it stay.
When you see some of the shit that's in Speculation Nation, you've really got to wonder how bad a thread would have to be to be considered undeserving. I don't think that's the problem to be honest. Deci's posts weren't deleted, he just didn't like the feedback he got.
Guts' intestines said:And finally, I think we should also have a section devoted for the times when you have heated discussions that evolve (or I guess regress) into arguments. Now this wouldn't be a section for flame wars or anything, but rather it would serve to gimp arguments and keep them from expanding into constant PMings, chat room bickering, or worse being a big ass argument clogging up space in a serious discussion thread. This section (I'd call the Fight Club) would gimp fights, in much of the same way that saying, "let's take this outside" does.
It'd be dignifying something that doesn't need to be, IMHO. And it's not like we often get arguments that would qualify. As long as it's on-topic, I wouldn't see a reason to move a discussion involving serious disagreements to a separate section. Really, people might talk of flames and all, but I think we're a rather gentle community overall.