Suggestion Splitting the BCD Forum

[Jarrett]

The BCD section has become consumed with discussion about BP/W's. It is to the point that you can't get advice on non BP/W questions there anymore. Any request for information about non-BP/W BCDs is met with 10 responses of "you should get a BP/W."

Most of the non-BP/W users have quit posting in that forum due to the beating that they take when they mention anything but a BP/W. While the BP/W may be a great option for some, the majority of divers out there are not in BP/W setups and still need advice there as well.

My suggestion is to split this forum.

How about subsections like:

Traditional BCDs (Jacket/Back-inflate)
Backplates & Wings

That way posters interested in each could inquire and receive non combative discussions on each type of platform. I believe this would also bring more traditional BCD owners back to the forum for discussions who may otherwise be reluctant to post these days due to the current bias.

 

[H2Andy]

well we got the pro BP/W team out in force...

more like the "no-gag-rule" team

 

[Mafiaman]

more like the "no-gag-rule" team

More like being sent to your room, just so others can have be given an opportunity to speak!

The water wing/DIR folks are persistent, you have to give'm that.

 

[cerich]

more like the "no-gag-rule" team

You sir, are an lawyer, lawyers fully know that true free speech would lead to the downfall of civilization and the artful hindrance of free speech is something to aspire for.

Now he'll object.....

 

[lamont]

i am just so weary whenever someone wants to exclude others from expressing their opinions. that's censorship.

no it isn't. you have the legal right to freedom of speech in the appropriate forum, not to the freedom of speech in every forum. if someone stands up in the middle of a movie theater and starts lecturing about their favorite political topic, they will be ejected and they will have no first amendment grounds if they go to court.

on our smaller scale injecting discussions about religious diving issues into threads where they are explicitly not wanted is disruptive. structuring the board to reduce that disruption is not censorship.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

More like being sent to your room, just so others can have be given an opportunity to speak!

The water wing/DIR folks are persistent, you have to give'm that.

It might be worth noting that there are water wing/DIR folks expressing support on both sides of this subject ... and that most of the people saying "let them speak" are not DIR ... this ain't a DIR issue.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Jarrett]

structuring the board to reduce that disruption is not censorship.

 

[Jarrett]

It might be worth noting that there are water wing/DIR folks expressing support on both sides of this subject

Yeah knowing me, I'll probably end up with a BP/W. Hopefully they will let me on their forum after this

 

[JeffG]

Yeah knowing me, I'll probably end up with a BP/W. Hopefully they will let me on their forum after this

Having a BP/W doesn't necessarily get you into the forum.

 

[Jarrett]

Not the DIR forum, the hopefully newly created BP/W forum.

 

[JeffG]

Not the DIR forum, the hopefully newly created BP/W forum.

Ahh...my mistake.