Showcase Forum Issues and Requests

I started this reply on Message 27 but moved here to be more on topic How about {if\when} a topic is moved to the {{showcase}} forum that all participants in that thread are given automatic permission to participate in that {{showcase thread}}, then all admin needs to do is monitor to see if anyone needs to be restricted from it (for whatever reason the admin thinks appropriate according to current protocols)?This would seem to (1) make the moved threads as accessable as before and (2) not impose additional load on admins.This also opens up the possiblitiy of any topic being moved to {{showcase}} -- consider ones with a sudden burst of off-topic posts: move to {showcase} and restrict anyone who continues {off-topic} from further participation on the thread, when it "cools-down" it can be returned where it was until the next "burst"?What would be really cool would be a marker put on all off-topic posts like the {message mood} indicators (a big red X?) and then have these stripped out when it is moved to {{showcase}} along with the authors (the old version would have them but be closed, so no lost information).Thus the Lucy - fact or fraud? could have been {{showcased}} to stop the off-topic posts, and still allow discussion by those staying on topic with eventual return to Human Origins and Evolution after a cool-down period.Of course this may mean a major expansion of the {{showcase}} forum, possibly to a mirror of the other forums? (forum polyploidy?)I know you have nothing else better to do eh? Enjoy.

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Personally I nuance that a bit. I think he falls in the category that Dawkins described as tormented in his article Ignorance Is No Crime:

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"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."

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I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other.

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There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself.

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I believe he wants to believe science is sound, but is torn when it conficts with his beliefs.This is also why I tend more to use delusion for this latter category, because the cause of the delusion is not necessarily of the person's choosing.:

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delusion” -noun
1. an act or instance of deluding.
2. the state of being deluded.
3. a false belief or opinion: delusions of grandeur.
4. Psychiatry. a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.

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The last (deepest level?) describing the condition you attribute to him. One concession could be coffeehouse, as long as no discussions of science\faith are involved (ie humor, politics, morality, and general banter accepted as it is from everyone else). You could leave Buz on watch for that as he has volunteered.

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