[PatrickHenry]

When you post a new article, the 2nd box you fill in is "Topics," and there's a checkoff list of them, followed by things like "breaking news," and then there's a list of states. Anyway, Philosophy is one of those topics, and it's also one that a freeper can choose to list among his sidebar items. For this thread, I couldn't use the "add a topic" button either. I don't know what it's all about, but it's obviously different from the "topics" checkoff list when starting a thread. It's irrelevant here, but I always list my evolution threads in three topics: Philosophy, Misc., and Culture/Society.

[general_re]

Anyway, Philosophy is one of those topics, and it's also one that a freeper can choose to list among his sidebar items. For this thread, I couldn't use the "add a topic" button either.

I think I know what the problem is - there's a difference in the topics list available in "News/Activism", which is the one you and I are familiar with, and the topics list here in "General Interest". Try it out - open two browser windows, one for News and one for Chat, hit "post" for both of them, and bring up the topic lists side-by-side. For whatever reason, "Philosophy" is not available as a topic here in General Interest - guess it's not something that freepers are "generally interested" in ;)

Anyway, that's why I missed it - it wasn't there in the first place...