[Coyoteman]

These threads have developed a certain cachet...

...as of fromage left out of the refrigerateur too long.

Cheers!

Hi--

This thread was hijacked to the Chat forum before any contentious posts were made. It was a good science thread, with good, serious comments. But, off to Chat, with the crop circles and other drivel.

Something has changed, and this tells us where science is now relegated to here on FR.

Pretty sad. I'm not sure how much longer I can put up with this.

Its like, science--take a hike, we're not interested.

[grey_whiskers]

I think it'd be a good idea to have a science thread.

Maybe the unwanted comments [note: "irreverent" for a religious topic, how about the word "dysgnostic" for 'interfering with the seeking of knowledge'] come about because people see it on a Chat thread.

All kinds of threads get hijacked to some extent.

Another possibility is that the jokes and whatnot are defensive--people feel the are not up to an informed comment, but they still want to participate.

Cheers!

[PatrickHenry]

This thread was hijacked to the Chat forum before any contentious posts were made. It was a good science thread, with good, serious comments. But, off to Chat, with the crop circles and other drivel. Something has changed, and this tells us where science is now relegated to here on FR.

Looking at "My Comments" shows that post #2 (my ping to the list) was in "News", and so was #3; but from #3 on it's all in "Chat." I don't know why those two posts show up like that for me, but there they are.

There was no cause at that very early stage to toss this thread into the dumpster, except: (1) the mod doesn't like spiders; (2) the mod doesn't like me; (3) the mod is furious at how many people are voting "No" in the evolution poll; or (4) all of the foregoing.