Thanks for considering our suggestions.
I think we can approach this in one fell swoop rather than piecemeal. Earlier, it was posted that “Things get pretty hot in the pro-LEO/anti-LEO (law enforcement officers for those of you in Rio Linda) side as well. That is just the nature of the animal.” So, there are several areas where the VEHEMENCE runs high and the participants need closer supervision because they let their emotions get the best of them.
What we’re seeing here on this thread isn’t resistance to the idea of a religion tag for crevo threads — anyone who wants to can open a parallel crevo thread with their own chosen religion, be it catholicism, protestantism, bhuddism, scientism, atheism, or any other kind of fill_in_the_blankism. That part is established. But the evo crowd objects that a religious tag is being generated on their behalf and that they would be forced to acknowledge its precepts in order to use the tag. So, to accommodate all these nasty crevo threads and any other issue where VEHEMENCE runs high, I propose a VEHEMENCE tag in the religion moderator’s realm so that we can all access the rules setup that helps reduce the vitriol. Of course, since VEHEMENCE isn’t a religion, we would all know that this is just a made-up tag so that we can avoid vitriol. The tag could be used on ANY subject where the participants are sick of the personal attacks, invective, and vitriol that accompany the Subject.
Interesting, but it seems counter-intuitive. Rather than tagging it with a label designating it a VEHEMENCE thread, why not use a CIVILITY tag instead?
Vitriol is only one part of the problem. You also have sarcasm, silly graphics, non-responsive responses, taking threads offtopic with provocative posts, all that.
Yes, I agree, it would be good to have a mechanism to elevate the debate on all kind of topics. For example, it is impossible to post anything from Buchanan without the thread immediately going into his alleged anti-Semitism. But he is a prominent writer, former presidential candidate and a TV personality who speaks on a whole lot of topics dear to Freepers. We should be able to discuss his ideas, if only in order to refute them, in a logical fashion.