Thought about that actually. Biggest reason it was split, was the sports forum wasn't just for sports anymore. People wanted to discuss everything else, and in the middle of a which running back is best discussion, you would have someone something flippant like Ricky Williams because he's a liberal [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It would snowball from there.

The non-sports forum SHOULD have covered the ground. Except instead of having nice discussions about movies, music, etc. You had people who took it upon themselves to tell us how good one party was, or how much the other party sucked. Or you had the Tops and Bottoms brigade. Creating those forums was a way to prevent the sports forum, or the non-sports forum from being over ran by zealots. (spelling?) Those forums are invite only, but I think I may change them to not viewable unless a person is in them. Not that it will keep it from being able to be joined, but will/could reduce people having to see it.

I'm willing to nuke them and just let them be in the non-sports forum.

I'd be willing to destroy the rest of the forums, but I do think the non-sports is a good thing.

It's kind of up to the posters.

Agree with you, more or less, about RetiredTeach. He expresses his opinions without downing others. That is something we all should do. Someone may be the biggest blowhard, or the biggest idiot in the world, but there is no need to tell them that. Respect, and respectfully disagreeing with someone, is a lost art.

I will say this. Back 10 years ago, there was about 20-30 people on here. Now there is quite a few more (durn you internet, more users, chat programs, high speed, etc).

What most don't realize is that Jim was Powell Valley, Counts and I was Clintwood, and we, along with nearly everybody on here, could get in some very serious disagreements, arguments even, but everybody (or nearly everybody) was mature enough to realize when a cause was lost, or things were going to far, and could step back. At the end of the day, it was that you might think someone was full of crap but you at least respected their right to be full of crap. Now if someone is wrong or you perceive them as wrong, you have to convert them.

On the religious forum, ut1 and I have been having a go, back and forth. I am disagreeing with his view, he with mine, but I can safely say that I respect and understand his opinions. I hope he does mine as well. I may not agree with him, he with me, but I think both of us have brought some valid points and comments out. Is either of us right or wrong? That depends on what someone elses view is. I haven't resorted to calling him a name (or don't think I have), nor he I (at least not that I remember).

Here, just for fun.

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1 forum or multiple?
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