We already have the
Talk About Anything thread.
And these are the civility rules:
Rule 2 – Civility Rules
The purpose of this website and forum is to promote the exchange of ideas in a civil manner, upholding the value of freedom of speech. In order to fulfill this purpose certain exchanges between users which are unproductive are prohibited. In addition, material very likely to provoke such exchanges may not be posted on the boards. This includes, but is not limited to;
- a) Racial, ethnic, religious and other slurs solely intended to demean a person for a group identity. A non-exhaustive set of examples includes “Nigger”, “Kike”, “Spic”, “Faggot”, “Slant”, etc.
- b) Entering a thread solely to insult another poster without addressing the topic at hand.
- c) Posting inflammatory content in an attempt to bait other users to violate the civility rules.
- d) Coordinated efforts to overwhelm a single poster (eg ‘dogpiling’) by a group of other posters.
- e) Accusations of being or belonging to a political extremist group or holding an extremist ideology, unless the poster self-identifies as such or can be proved to be such, with the accuser having the burden of proving their accusation.
- f) Drastically derailing a thread from the topic established by the original poster.
- g) Attempts to organize harassment of posters, individuals, or other websites.
- h) Harassing behaviour toward another member.
Considering that all a High Noon thread would theoretically remove is 2b and 2c, I doubt that we would ever see any reason to create one or allow the creation of a thread for the specific purpose of insulting other users.
Frankly, so long as you don't derail a thread it is rules legal to insult other posters and call them names already. Violating 2c actually takes effort, as does insults rising to the point where we would call it a 2h violation.
Granted, if you generally act like a dick to others then whenever you do find yourself violating the rules your punishment is going to be far harsher than it would otherwise be (instead of a few days off from a thread, you may well eat a subforum ban for a few months).
But this forum doesn't exist to encourage posters to insult/attack one another. So no, no specific High Noon threads will be created. And attempting to do so will be construed as both disobeying staff directions and violating 2c and 2g as it will be seen as "Posting inflammatory content in an attempt to bait other users to violate the civility rules." and an attempt to organize harassment.
