Can we have a proper 'woo' topic?

Even more unanimity then.

Go on then...

Still the wrong end of the stick...

Talk guidelines are there for us all. And you are asking for exactly what the FWR peeps wanted at the time of the kerfuffle. It wasn't given.

Perhaps you weren't around for the worst of it on FWR. Dittany was a magnet for the worst of the in-site aggro, which is what you are talking about, but since she has been forced out, things are calmer but certainly fluffier. So, if you want your wooyist poster (and others like her) to leave, carry on down this path. It happened with other boards too.

MNHQ don't like to go to the edge. They like safe stuff that doesn't frighten the advertisers horses too much.

(not Dittany)

I think you need to RTFT; no-one is arguing for a magically protected board. Although some angels at the gates wouldn't go amiss.

How can you say that? There are innumerable feminist threads, many of which are fascinating and really in-depth. They aren't completely uninterrupted by idiots, but nor are they driven off MN.

No, they really do not. And if there is a thread where that seems to be the case, it has been because of ridiculously hard work on the boards and behind the scenes, with multiple casualties along the way.

So, I'm sorry, if the woos got a protected board, there would be an uproar. If something like women's rights on a female dominated site didn't get it (not to mention the hell that SN advocates have to go through on here) , there will be plenty who have a lot to say if woo-pedlars get one.

The point is, though, that feminists, like Christians, do manage to talk amongst themselves on MN.

Quite. That's what the feminists wanted too, but it was thrashed out and MNHQ decided on their policy.

I think there were lots of suggestions of ignoring the naysayers and starting off-MN boards.

Yes we do just want to chat

So what you're saying cote is that you are going to purposely (and gleefully it seems) going to derail every single woo thread so it descends into a fight and eventually dies.. as what happens with all of them?

Just for the record like.

It's not actually a war.

We just want to chat.

Did we kill the thread with reason, Cote? :-D

As Crotch said, if you get your woo topic, we'll be there with you

I know what you are hoping is to have the numbers to shout down anyone who points out the error of your ways, but facts, reality, and theory will still not be on your side. So good luck with that.

Côte I haven't seen mine yet either, still waiting...

It was established, over multiple thousand post threads, that the Feminism topic was about Feminism, not for feminists.

So, tough. You could have a woo board, but it would have to be about woo, not a place excluding non-woo-ers, subject to usual Talk guidelines.

Otherwise, MNHQ would have to deal with multiple threads about policy. Again. And again. And again.

There's self help, alternative therapy and there's woo. The twains never meet, nor should they.

Woo is spirituality isn't it? Isn't that where it belongs?

You don't need that "but" in your post, Lady, thanks to recent research. The medics are with you.

"Can't wait til CoteDAzur sees a ghost in RL"

That may be a long wait, Indigo.

I love how you say that as if everyone sees ghosts at some point and it is only a matter of time until I see one, too

PS - I'm totally scientific minded but interested in TM.

Did I hear TM? Does anyone do TM and would like to discuss about it?

Generally concerted de-railing doesn't happen to Christian threads to an extent which closes them down.

"Immaculate conception? Are you kidding?"

That happens quite often actually.

If and when you have a woo topic, don't think people won't come in and remind you that all that voodoo is not real and doesn't work beyond the placebo effect.

At the very least, we could discuss the line between woo and non-woo.

And how something like Transcendental Meditation moves from woo to non-woo.

And whether it works to do woo things or non-woo things if you think it's all a load of baloney.