The Black Hole

[Alexander Trafford]

And I'm saying how having a separate place for that isn't a good idea, because of my above post.

Your above post was written in regards to debates becoming uncivil within the debate thread itself, unless I am reading it incorrectly. In a perfect world we could have perfectly civilized debates without getting heated. But this isn't a perfect world and people have tempers and seek to defend their own opinions. You are guilty of this just as much as me and everyone else on this site. Now, from my understanding, you saying that we should be able to keep the debates in of themselves civil. What Leo is proposing seeks to do just that. Right now our tempers and such are flaring up within the debating threads, if there was a forum, say this 'black hole', then people could filter out their anger and their tempers within that thread, and the debate thread itself would remain civil, in theory.

Yes, it'd be great to have perfectly civil debates all the time. But that doesn't happen. Leo is arguing that by filtering out the tempers and the anger and putting that into a different thread, then the actual debate thread can remain civil. I think.