Even if it’s civil and non-mind-killed, I don’t want 90% of recent posts and comments to be about the culture war. And I don’t see why it would stop short of that. Some people will contribute less due to CW noise; some new people will register just to discuss CW; CW posts are easier to write than math posts, they just flow off the fingers once you feel angry enough; we all know what happened with /r/ssc, where the CW thread dominates everything else. Sorry about the tone, I don’t want to offend here, but to me all the arguments point in one direction.
Even if it’s civil and non-mind-killed, I don’t want 90% of recent posts and comments to be about the culture war. And I don’t see why it would stop short of that. Some people will contribute less due to CW noise; some new people will register just to discuss CW; CW posts are easier to write than math posts, they just flow off the fingers once you feel angry enough; we all know what happened with /r/ssc, where the CW thread dominates everything else. Sorry about the tone, I don’t want to offend here, but to me all the arguments point in one direction.