# Comment thread for Lawfare?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144
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**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144 "2018-12-14T22:51:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/1 "2018-12-14T22:51:41Z")
The website, [Lawfare](https://www.lawfareblog.com/), has many strong articles+podcasts on law, domestic, and foreign policy by people who know their stuff.
However, they lack anything like a comments system. There’s no good forum, at the moment, to discuss their content.
Would the Powers that Be have any complaint with me starting a GD thread where people could talk about the newest articles?
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/2 "2018-12-14T23:08:29Z")
Go for it. Include a link and observe fair use please. It should be framed in the form of debate, but that can be done fairly easily.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/3 "2018-12-14T23:08:55Z")
nm. Bone got there first.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/4 "2018-12-14T23:19:34Z")
I think **Sage Rat** meant an omnibus thread for on-going discussion of articles there, tho. Like, if I want to talk about “Judicial Attire and how it relates to Justice”, I could post in this thread but when **Sage Rat** spots a new article about “Scale Economies of Justice”, he would just post in the same Lawfare discussion thread, not start a whole new thread. I might be wrong, but that is how I read his OP.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/5 "2018-12-14T23:36:12Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> I think **Sage Rat** meant an omnibus thread for on-going discussion of articles there, tho. Like, if I want to talk about “Judicial Attire and how it relates to Justice”, I could post in this thread but when **Sage Rat** spots a new article about “Scale Economies of Justice”, he would just post in the same Lawfare discussion thread, not start a whole new thread. I might be wrong, but that is how I read his OP.
I think that’s be fine too. Just link to the newest article. Just like when we have omnibus threads on a whole season of a TV show.
If he wants to link it in GD, then there needs to be a debate component. Otherwise IMHO would work.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/6 "2018-12-14T23:47:12Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> If he wants to link it in GD, then there needs to be a debate component. Otherwise IMHO would work.
Aye; I just pointed it out because I’m not sure how there could be an omnibus thread that was a debate.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/7 "2018-12-14T23:48:25Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Aye; I just pointed it out because I’m not sure how there could be an omnibus thread that was a debate.
It could, by starting a new relevant issue with each new article/link. And some themes could stretch across articles as well.
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/8 "2018-12-15T00:02:28Z")
An omnibus comment thread wouldn’t really fit in debate. IMHO is better for that.
But we’ve had debate type series before, where some umbrella of topic creation exists and a thread is opened to debate/discuss/argue each. That’s totally fine.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/9 "2018-12-15T00:06:24Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> It could, by starting a new relevant issue with each new article/link. And some themes could stretch across articles as well.
How about I start it in GD and in the OP I’ll say that people should only bring up a new article if they have a point to debate? E.g.: Everyone’s aware of where the articles are and how to read them. There’s no value in linking over to the other site simply because a new article is up, you need to have some potentially controversial reason to introduce it as a new topic.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/10 "2018-12-15T00:08:07Z")
If you think there could be enough traffic for a forum I’d give 'em one.
The more the merrier, especially when it comes to traffic.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/11 "2018-12-15T00:17:50Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> If you think there could be enough traffic for a forum I’d give 'em one.
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> The more the merrier, especially when it comes to traffic.
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> Jenny
> your humble TubaDiva
> Administrator
I don’t have any affiliation with their site, so unless people find us and start to post, I imagine that it would just be the normal subset of GD/Elections posters. Obviously, we can hope that we become the official unofficial commentary location. 😛
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/12 "2018-12-15T00:33:41Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> How about I start it in GD and in the OP I’ll say that people should only bring up a new article if they have a point to debate? E.g.: Everyone’s aware of where the articles are and how to read them. There’s no value in linking over to the other site simply because a new article is up, you need to have some potentially controversial reason to introduce it as a new topic.
The link would be useful in case of the users here want to see what everyone is chatting about. Unless it’s private or something?
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-thread-for-lawfare/826144/13 "2018-12-15T00:39:21Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> The link would be useful in case of the users here want to see what everyone is chatting about. Unless it’s private or something?
I meant that people shouldn’t link gratuitously.
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21378775](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21378775)