Continuing the discussion about adding a couple of new forums to DU

[EarlG]

27. I'd say you've identified the concern

Like with pretty much everything else about the way DU works, people would have to understand that this wouldn’t be perfect and there would have to be compromises.

I’m not saying, “Trump stuff goes over here, non-Trump stuff goes over there.” I’m saying it would be a forum for that very particular type of Trump news, the type where he says or does something awful in order to get attention or create a diversion, but other than the awful thing itself, it’s not really newsworthy. When he’s trolling, basically.

Trump’s going to be president so he’s going to make a lot of legitimate news. That would still be acceptable in GD or LBN. The other forum would be exclusively for the “BS” as described above.

The main sticking point will be the definition of “BS,” and that’s what people will argue over. But we would have a Statement of Purpose and Hosts to enforce it, and it’s not like we’ve never done stuff like this before, in various ways. So there would probably be some growing pains, but it might work.