How about a Sub-Forum for Philosophy?

[Christopher Hill]

Philosophy is not really covered in any of the other categories and it seems to me that this could be worth looking in to, anyone have any thoughts on this matter? I know that this was once a forum which was merged with "Beginners Theory", but perhaps this should either be represented in a sub-forum of "Beginner's Theory" or perhaps it should be explained in the description for the aforementioned "Beginner's Theory" Forum. In fact I believe many of the former forums which were combined may deserve sub-forums so as to better organize ourselves.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

As you note, there used to be one, but it was closed, and the posts exported to the Beginners' Section -- possibly because I used to dominate it!

[Christopher Hill]

Well I do not want to talk of anti-dialectics.. :)

[CyM]

It was closed because the board is too inactive for 50 forums.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

It was on fact one of the most active sections.

[Volkov]

It was essentially merged to the "Advanced Theory" section, which states:

Discuss theory, economics and philosophy in-depth. From the Permanent Revolution, to Dialectical Materialism, to Entryism, to Wage Labour and Capital.

If these boards suddenly became very active, I could see the point in putting a separate philosophy section, but since the boards are extremely inactive as of late, I don't think repartitioning things is really going to matter.

I don't think the "I used to dominate it" argument holds any water when the content still remains; things just got reshuffled.  People can still have active philosophical posts under the "Advanced Theory" section.  This board used to be very active years ago, but that is not the case at the moment. 

[JJM 777]

because I used to dominate it!

Everyone here dominates the discussion, in his or her own opinion, by being "right" all the time as the others err.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

JJ:

Everyone here dominates the discussion, in his or her own opinion, by being "right" all the time as the others err.

Well, check them out, and see if you disagree with my estimation:

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2270.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,1441.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2622.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2211.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2287.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2175.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2421.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2137.0.html

http://discussion.newyouth.com/index.php/topic,2145.0.html

Volkov:

I don't think the "I used to dominate it" argument holds any water when the content still remains; things just got reshuffled.  People can still have active philosophical posts under the "Advanced Theory" section.  This board used to be very active years ago, but that is not the case at the moment. 

The above links suggest otherwise.

[JJM 777]

Such a flood of text surely "dominates" any discussion in terms of sheer volume, because most people don't have the time / interest / mood to read all of your arguments, plus all the additional reading and googleing that would be necessary to understand the unknown terminology that you use. (Unknown for the mainstream population, no matter how well known they may be for university students of some related philosophical subject.)

You might get more feedback, not necessarily all of it in perfect agreement with your opinions, if you make a concise summary of
- what your point is
- what it matters really, for real people in the real world?
avoiding (or then defining in the text) any words whose meaning is not clear to the average passers-by on the street, aka "workers" aka "proletariat".

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

JJM:

Such a flood of text surely "dominates" any discussion in terms of sheer volume, because most people don't have the time / interest / mood to read all of your arguments, plus all the additional reading and googleing that would be necessary to understand the unknown terminology that you use. (Unknown for the mainstream population, no matter how well known they may be for university students of some related philosophical subject.)

Maybe so, but when I wrote them I too had a full-time job, and held down the position of union rep (unpaid).

And my terminology, in these posts, matches that of anyone who replies to me.

You might get more feedback, not necessarily all of it in perfect agreement with your opinions, if you make a concise summary of
- what your point is
- what it matters really, for real people in the real world?
avoiding (or then defining in the text) any words whose meaning is not clear to the average passers-by on the street, aka "workers" aka "proletariat".

I only post such words on sites where such terms are readily understood. And, as I have pointed out here many times, what I regard as "what matters" is 99% in agreement with most who post here, too.

I have also written simple and concise summaries of my ideas. Many of the above threads (and the one I mention in the tread now open in the Beginners section) are in fact just that.