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Title: In The News section
Post by: Star Cluster on January 22, 2012, 04:50:28 pm
I'm not sure if this is the quite the same thing as Vene proposed in his News Ticker thread, but a section for items that are drawn from the news that don't quite fit any other heading would be good.  The thread under P&G started by Damen entitled A Special Hell is what prompted this.  It doesn't fit under P&G but doesn't really fit anything else either except perhaps General Discussion under General Category. 
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 22, 2012, 04:51:43 pm
Agreed. There are some things that are news that don't relate to religion or politics, so there should probably be a separate section for them.
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 22, 2012, 05:02:43 pm
This. I ran into a fascinating article that started out about PETA protesting spider silk garments, which could be P&G, but which mainly highlighted the difficulty of making the cloth and how the government has expressed interest in synthesizing the process because it resembles kevlar. It's not really funny/amazing so it doesn't fit in the lounge. It mixes too many elements for any one section.

In the News would solve this.
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: Eniliad on January 22, 2012, 05:15:57 pm
+1
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: Vene on January 22, 2012, 05:21:40 pm
I'm not sure if this is the quite the same thing as Vene proposed in his News Ticker thread, but a section for items that are drawn from the news that don't quite fit any other heading would be good.  The thread under P&G started by Damen entitled A Special Hell is what prompted this.  It doesn't fit under P&G but doesn't really fit anything else either except perhaps General Discussion under General Category.
Nah, I was thinking about the thing on the top right that says "SMF - Just Installed!" and replacing it with something more amusing. Hell, even some of the funnier snippets of mainpage quotes.
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: Yla on January 23, 2012, 05:40:11 pm
Sooo... a section for stuff which currently gets broken up into P&G, R&P, General, F&B, and occasionally others..
That's actually not bad an idea.
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: rosenewock21 on January 23, 2012, 06:00:53 pm
I think a lot of the stuff will still end up in F&B, P&G, etc...but this is more for those stories that either have nowhere to go or could fit multiple places like my spider silk one.
Title: Re: In The News section
Post by: Cataclysm on January 23, 2012, 07:18:41 pm
Agreed