What's this then?
 

Call it the subforum experiment part 2. We thought it'd be neat to have a subforum dedicated to talking about current news, if only to see what happens if we have one. We do get a lot of news threads in General!

I'll move relevant threads from the past two weeks or so over from General and make a little subforum rules thread. Stay tuned!

Good lord! Community feedback has been taken seriously?
I welcome this, though. Now we have one board to generally be random and hilarious about everything and one board to be random and hilarious about Sarah Palin and still-random-but-bordering-on-serious about everything else.

That is probably the best way anyone could have put it.

Annotation to the rules: the need for quoting an article is only for new threads, you don't have to go and insert quotes and links in the threads I just moved over (most of them already have them anyway).

All credit for the idea goes to Fifth although I'd like to point out that I did all the work just now while he ate cheetos and possibly masturbated.

Can thread discussion also expand on specific subjects of discussion, and not solely on the article itself?

For example if a News Article was published talking about Genetic Engineering, is discussion of ethical implications and subjects of a broader scope not truly mentioned in the article allowed to be discussed along side with the content actually inside the News Article?

I don't see why not.

Maybe it's just me.
 

I'm trying to avoid close association to the old Discussion forum so no one thinks they have to keep serious in here at all times, but I'd be lying if I said it had nothing to do with it. However no difference in posting style is intended, it's simply a forum about current stuff the same way the games subforum is about everything related to gaming. I'd put your 2. more like "if a news thread turns ridiculous, that's totally okay and in fact will happen in about 95% of threads."

I think we can up that the probably.

I totally had all these crazy news stories to share a week ago but didn't feel they warranted a thread in general. Now I can't remember what they were!

This move I hope does work out; I find a relatively interesting article which isn't funny so it doesn't really fit in the funny link thread, but I don't think it is enough to warrant a full blown discussion about it.

In fact, I'm going to make one now!