Yeah Frank, I have read the entire thread. A folder such as being proposed will start all nicey-nice with everyone paying attention to not break any TOS, and will later degrade into a free for all. It's the nature of the beast. I've been here a while now, and have also moderated on what was a very large forum in its day. The dynamics off all of this is not lost on me.
The entire notion of this kind of folder on a fish forum, seems extreme to me. My point is, how will one control viewable content in such a folder? This is a site that allows children to join.
We have grown men who can't seem to follow who said what to who in a rather simple discussion, but we expect children to do what, vet themselves? Sign a waiver? Have their parents sign off?
What you seem to want, and correct me if I am missing something, but you appear to want a sub folder of the Lounge, so that some of you can discuss topics that for the most part currently violate the TOS of this site.
How many of you guys/gals would like a thunderdome/wild wild west section ? Something along the lines of allowing us to have an expanded list of acceptable topics.
To me an expanded list of acceptable topics equates to wanting to bend the current rules, to conform to what you would like to discuss, things that currently violate the TOS. Wild wild west, no holds barred, semantics my friend. It will have the same end result, no matter what one calls it.
If one can't act like an adult in the Lounge, what makes anyone think that same person would act like an adult in a different folder?