A Change To Answerbank

[sp1814]

Should AB have a new topic heading, not underneath news (the graveyard which is 'Politics' and 'Current Affairs'), but a main header: Immigration/Migrant news?

I always thought that in the run up to the General Election, we should have had a specific thread area for Election questions.

How do you feel about one for Immigration?

It seems that this is of enormous interest at the moment, which could justify it as being established as a separate subject area...

[-Talbot-]

Should we also have a Jeremy Clarkson main topic too?

[murraymints]

GAWD NOOO....imagine the bickering and fighting that would go on !

[naomi24]

Dodgy. Think accusations of racism. ;o)

[stuey]

Well seeing as how they're moving in and wanting their own place, they might as well have their own place on here:)

[sp1814]

Additionally, why not get rid of the 'Current Affairs' News subfolder (seeing as 'news' and 'current affairs' are basically synonyms, and move 'Politics' up so that it was a main heading.

That means we wouldn't need a specific 'Election' thread in future - it could be handled by 'Politics'!

These are only ideas...would be interested to see whether there is any wind behind them, or are my sails hanging limply...

[-Talbot-]

I don't think 'Topics' mean anything to some posters.

They will post football based stories in news because of who and what they are (or think they are)


ps
Although I do think a 'anti-British' topic would do well!
;0)

[trt]

The problem is sp, is that in a few years there wont be people posting about
Immigration/Migrant news.

The Topic will probably be something like, ''Where Can I Buy English Food'' ''Moving Away'' ''My Church Has Gone'' ''Best Place to Emigrate'' & ''My Daughter Refuses to Wear a Burkha'' :-)

[andy-hughes]

I appreciate that immigration is a hot topic at the moment, but I feel that to give it a separate section will offer a level of importance that should not be attributed to any news subject simply by virtue of its popularity.

The other issue is that it could be completely dominated by those AB'ers for whom immigration is the subject they think about most - and again that leads to a lack of balance across the site.

[mikey4444]

SP...but then we would need a separate one for the NHS, another one for Defence, and perhaps a completely new AB for Europe !

[jno]

I wouldn't worry about it, divebuddy - AB will be in Arabic by then.

[bazwillrun]

so thats a non starter...quelle surprise !...not

[DTCwordfan]

And we would need one for Mikey, and then AOG, Gromit, Andyhughes, hc...and why not stuey?

[mikey4444]

And you DTC !

[DTCwordfan]

I agree, mikey, I vote for Sheep Farming.

[Prudie]

I think all sub-topics should be removed
At the moment if we had a specific one for immigration then news wouldn't get posted in at all
I think we should have RIP topic
I think all posters who put everything in CB because 'it gets more traffic' should be blackballed ;-)

[Prudie]

OMG - sorry, I said black

[sp1814]

Prudie

OMG - sorry, I said black

Eh??

I don't get it.

[Prudie]

My warped sense of humour sp - seems to be a word that gets taken out of context and starts off spats in news now and again.