Lady Sidhe's User-Hosted Forum

[Lady Sidhe]

Hi, everyone....

I posted a question concerning how to get my own forum, and subsequent to advice from that thread, made a request to Undertoad for said forum....however, my request seems to have provoked a cascade of responses asking me to justify my request. I wasn't aware that the request had to be justified to anyone except the person bequeathing the board, but I decided to accede to lumberjim's suggestion and post a poll.

So here it is: I'd like to have my own user-hosted forum in order to, among other things, debate controversial opinions. It's my hope that the forum will cause people to think about why they believe the things they believe, and think the way they do, through spirited discussion with others with equally strong, perhaps opposing, opinions.

I would hope that the threads posted on my forum would initiate interesting debate. Just because you bitch about something because it pisses you off doesn't make it insignificant or irrelevant. I'd hope that the things people talk about would be controversial, things that get people thinking and debating...

For instance...I've posted things such as opinions on abortion, prostitution, gay marriage, and the like on other boards, but got no response either agreeing or disagreeing. It was as if people didn't want to touch the subjects. I like to see how people think, and I believe that controversial subjects get people thinking about, well, what they REALLY think. That's what I'd like to do with this forum, among other things. I'm sure it would evolve over time, but it has to start somewhere.

Sidhe