If Hubs and I move to Massachusetts and get married next month (not likely, but less likely things have happened), should I announce it in Natter or Politics?

If you do this, it's totally Beep Me. IJS.

It's better to try it and then say, "OK, that was very educational, let's never speak of it again", than to say, "Nope, wouldn't be prudent at this juncture."

Connie stole my brain.

If Hubs and I move to Massachusetts and get married next month (not likely, but less likely things have happened), should I announce it in Natter or Politics?

If you do this, it's totally Beep Me. IJS.

What. flea. said.

On the subject of the thread - I think I would read and post in it, if it were to come to pass, for all the PRO reasons everyone has stated. but my inclination right now is to vote against it, for all the CON reasons everybody has stated.

It's better to try it and then say, "OK, that was very educational, let's never speak of it again", than to say, "Nope, wouldn't be prudent at this juncture."

I admire the sentiment, but can someone name the day that Buffistas managed to never speak of anything?

We're not so good at the shutting up.

Of course if it were just two posters, and Gar & I were in there agreeing with each other, it might be pretty dull for the rest of you. Heh.

Just a quick question, but what days are we going to be voting on this?

That's a good question. Passover begins Monday evening. Aimee is out of town, at least through the weekend, I think.

The four days of discussion started yesterday afternoon, so voting would start sometime Monday (Monday night midnight at the latest) and end 72 hours later -- Thursday midnight at the latest.

The three month probation period on the thread doesn't ease my concerns. It's a nice gesture, and I admire the innovation, but everybody can be on their best behavior for three months. I don't think the thread will open and there will be an atomic meltdown destroying all the threads minutes after. I think the damage it might inflict would be of steady pressure building that puts stress on variouis fault lines which already exists.

It's really not a good idea. And I'd rather discuss politics in Natter, as we always have. Because as someone noted (Nutty?), I think the social context of Natter helps shape the political debate. Here's the nub of it for me: politics always starts off as a fun brain game of abstractions, and invariably turns into something deeply personal.

In a politics thread there would be the illusion that people were only arguing the issues. In Natter, it would always be clear that politics are personal, and that when you're arguing an anti-abortion position directly with somebody who has had an abortion, you must take that person's experience into account as you discuss it.

If Hubs and I move to Massachusetts and get married next month (not likely, but less likely things have happened), should I announce it in Natter or Politics?

One thing I'd like to add is that I think most political talk would gravitate towards a dedicated thread if we were to establish one, but I for one would be strongly opposed to any sort of rule that it had to go there. If a big discussion were to get going in Natter or somewhere and seemed to be going on for a long time, I'd never object to someone not interested suggesting that it might be better placed. But sometimes things just grow out of (and then back in to) unrelated subjects, and I wouldn't want to feel like we had to thread jump all the time.