Should this forum be renamed?

IveSeenTheLight

Should this forum be renamed?

Debate House Prices & the Economy

It's interesting that Debate is in italics, maybe it was foresight, but I rarely see a good debate in here

Blacklight

Yes

Yes.

There's nothing to debate anymore. House prices aren't going anywhere. Recession, credit crunch, downturn, house price crash... it's all over, it was years ago.

Hasn't been any need for debate in here for many months. It's just a troll club now.

Turnbull2000

Yeah, the debate is over. The crash came and ended in 2008. All we're left with is a few trolls and those who still desperately cling to the hope of meaningful nominal falls.

Really2

How about the foum of Devonian economics.
Where you simply have to disagree with anyone you perceive to be a "bull", no matter their point.

purch

No

Maybe, Argue over House Prices and Debate the Economy

Really2

purch wrote: »

Maybe, Argue over House Prices and Debate the Economy

No, I don't agree.

purch

No

Devonian economics.
Where you simply have to disagree with anyone you perceive to be
a "bull", no matter their point.

The first rule of the School of Devonian Economics is to argue with anyone you perceive to have a different opinion, no matter what they say or what point they are making.

GD will be professor emeritus one day, but we are all guilty of doing it from time to time.

chris_m

purch wrote: »

Maybe, Argue over House Prices and Debate the Economy

Sounds a pretty accurate description to me.

It's a shame, somewhere to have a proper debate is a good thing, but this forum has degenerated into a conglomeration of arguments, trolls and lame attempts at verbal oneupmanship where some users seem to only want to compete to find the most extreme articles from the media that "support" their point of view

Thrugelmir

No

purch wrote: »

Maybe, Argue over House Prices and Debate the Economy

I would go a step further. Merely "Debate the Economy"

As the direction of house prices for the time being will be at the mercy of wider economic events. Not influencing them as they have done for the past decade.....

Eskimo12345

How about we keep the name and add the tagline, "Don't feed the troll."

And ban that ghoul pillock at the same time?

Graham_Devon

purch wrote: »

The first rule of the School of Devonian Economics is to argue with anyone you perceive to have a different opinion, no matter what they say or what point they are making.

GD will be professor emeritus one day, but we are all guilty of doing it from time to time.

To be fair, I save the skills soley for ISTL, Really2, and Hamish.

Hamish is a tricky one, he either dissapears, or gives it back large, to the point I have no manouvering space

Really2, well, could create pages out of that. Start arguing about nominal or real, end up arguing about whether sheep have different colour eyes or not. I imagine a vein in the forehead growing bigger and bigger as the posts go on

In all seriousness, you can try to start a topic for debate, but it really depends on the person who started the topic as to how the debate on that topic will go. I've tried posting up positive articles aswell as negative, and reporting just basic every day stuff I see. Every thread goes the same way pretty much. Most are as bad as each other, it's a name thing, and no matter what the topic, it has to be disagreed, and it doesn't matter how it's disagreed either.