Question: Would a omnibus freewheeling thread in Politics & Elections running parallel to the news and fact laden one in Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share with the breaking-news tag be the solution to the problem.
The freewheeling ones can be very useful also and the Mods can redirect the Opinions and sidebars to it from the breaking news thread. Hell, I can even add a tag for it if that would help.
I ask as I do understand what you’re saying and agree to some degree, but think a Breaking News thread is extremely useful on big issues like this. And by breaking news I mean quoting news and answering on-topic questions.
Let me add I strongly support the Modding of the current Breaking News thread.