Current Affairs

[Yawn]

so we have accepted that the forum IS to include celeb gossip and news stories as well as politics but now only the politics is allowed in there and the celeb news stories go to spam just because 2 or 3 ppl said so and dont care about them

evidently the bulk of the forum dont care about the politics threads seeing as they barely ever get posted in so why do the more active threads in the current affairs forum that ppl have actually posted in go in spam? why not the other way around. wat if i said all the politics threads should go in spam (i wouldnt say that cos im not ignorant enough). why does anything have to go in spam? why cant they exist together idgi

:S

[GommeInc]

I vote no, I hate sub-forums with a passion. The reason for making one for this instance is pretty daft as well. The forum isn't busy and the recent dud articles aren't problematic at all, you would have to be pretty lazy or mentally inept if you can't find political or big news in a forum which, contrary to the belief, isn't teeming with activity and new threads...

[AgnesIO]

May I therefore question if I can make a thread in the tango news and tumours forum talking about "famous" habbos actions? Since last time I checked they always got moved because they "weren't really news".

A subforum was an example guys, have a biz forum if you like lol

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[Kardan]

May I therefore question if I can make a thread in the tango news and tumours forum talking about "famous" habbos actions? Since last time I checked they always got moved because they "weren't really news".

A subforum was an example guys, have a biz forum if you like lol

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Now that is some epic auto correct right there.

To remain on topic; we need management to define what goes in current affairs really. I don't mind the gossip as long as it follows the other forum rules. Having fake news; or multiple threads about near enough the same thing, shouldn't happen.

[xxMATTGxx]

I don't even know what to think. In my head anything that is news and is from actual news sites should be allowed to be posted in that forum. Then you have the issue with the "fake" or "joke" news sites that only have the purpose of making articles that is 100% bull. But would you still consider that news/current affairs? I wouldn't personally. But others may say it can still fit within that forum.

This sounds like its going to be of those things that lasts a couple of days and then no one bothers.

[Grig]

Hopefully it returns to myself, Dan and a few others talking about some hard news issues. Although celebrity news is news and you cannot deny it as its each to their own tastes; a thread such as OMG Kate Middleton had to leave a ceremony because her baby was kicking and she had stomach cramps is really not news, although to some such as the 'Daily Fail' it could be considered so.

Also, come on, The Onion, really. Armageddon is going to come next week and we'll have an alien invasion.

[Yawn]

it was an honest mistake from comity jesus let him live without ur scrutiny. his thread about massacre shoes was accident and does not represent every showbiz thread

[Chippiewill]

Technology News is technically Current Affairs, yet I and most people continue to post all technology news in Technology Discussion. Now that seems like a contradiction since news should go in current affairs, but what we really need to understand is that forums are about dividing content into rough categories such that people can get all the type of content they like by reading that particular forum.

What we can now bear in mind is that people who typically read and browse the current affairs forum are not in the slightest interested in celebrity gossip (Or entirely false news for that matter). Now it just so happens that we have a 'catch all' forum designed for just this kind of thing called Discuss Anything. Going by the typical content in discuss anything it seems that people who use that forum frequently would be far more receptive to Celebrity gossip than those who read current affairs, so perhaps that would be a more suitable location for those kinds of threads.