Although I agree that having separate sections for Anime, sci-fi, fantasy, movies, books, ect. would be a bad idea.. there are a number of people who like to talk about such things seriously for discussions.

So, why not make it simple? A serious discussion forum could host home to a lot of topics. Politics, religion, global warming, war.. all of those are generally very serious topics. But why should a serious topic forum be limited only to the things that generally get people depressed?

Having a serious discussion about anime inside a serious discussion forum wouldn't be so bad, would it? And it wouldn't cause such a nightmare for the mods. Some people may even want a serious discussion on what kind of pet they should get from people they know, rather than some random forum with no one they know there.

It's just a suggestion, but why couldn't the SD {Serious Discussion} forum hold a variety of topics rather than limited to ones that, in my experiance as a forum browser, have often lead to flame wars and heated arguements? Basically, all I'm saying is that an SD forum could hold a world of possibilities for serious discussions on a multiple layer of topics as long as people understood that the discussions were serious and not for spamming the thread.

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