Suggestion: allow a topic in two sub-forums when it fits both

[Craig234]

Sometimes, a topic has a clear link to two sub-forums, with a different discussion available for each. For example, this came up with reporting of a state's intelligence agency able to place agents widely in US media organizations - fitting both the 'Media bias' and that country's sub-forums, one for the media topic and one for the foreign policy topic. Posting in just one sub-forum would deprive one of the two discussions. Currently that is viewed as "spam".

Another example might be if, say, it were found the NRA had bribed multiple media outlets affecting the passage of a gun control bill, in the media bias and gun control forums. It doesn't come up much, but sometimes a topic has different parts.

 

[Craig234]

The definition in the rules of spam would already seem to allow the above, but enforcement is applying the above to the rule.

"2a. Spam Posting – What constitutes spam posting can be but is not limited to the excessively
repeated posting of a meme within a thread or across many threads or excessively repeated
posting of cut/past responses within a thread or across many threads. Excessive and obnoxious
reposting of the same content degrades the quality of the thread and makes
arguments/discussion difficult. "

Certainly it's not "excessively repeated posting of a meme within a thread or across many threads" or "excessively repeated cut/paste" - indeed, the threads had different comments, the repetition being one video reporting the evidence linked in both, and not "excessively repeated cut/paste". It wasn't "obnoxious reporting of the same content" that "degrades the quality of the thread" - indeed, no repetition in the thread - or make discussion difficult in any way.

There's a good case the definition doesn't need to be changed, but enforcement would.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

And sometimes there's a gay Russian Jew biased broadcaster running for office on a platform of gun rights and climate change.

Surely you should post it in seven different subforums, right?

Or maybe just pick one.