# “Elections” as a forum title **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 10, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633 "2018-07-10T02:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/1 "2018-07-10T02:37:13Z")
Ever think of re-naming the Elections forum as Politics? Politics seems to cover most of everything that’s there while Elections sounds limiting. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/2 "2018-07-10T16:04:16Z")
Previous discussion: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819952](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=819952) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/3 "2018-07-10T16:55:07Z")
Interesting that last year’s poll shows overwhelming support for changing the name, but no mod participated in the discussion and a year and a half later there’s been no change. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/4 "2018-07-10T17:08:33Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Interesting that last year’s poll shows overwhelming support for changing the name, but no mod participated in the discussion and a year and a half later there’s been no change. No mod? Did you read post #12 in the referenced thread? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/5 "2018-07-10T17:10:59Z")
I think this is worth revisiting. Why not change “Elections” to “Politics”? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/6 "2018-07-10T17:18:11Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > No mod? Did you read post #12 in the referenced thread? 1. He wasn’t posting as a mod. 2. He posted once and never came back, so not a discussion. 3. Hi, Opal! 4. His post didn’t address at all the reasoning behind keeping the name unchanged. 5. His post was more of a reply to a specific poster’s anecdote with the response to the OP being a side note. 6. Did you have any point to make, or did you just see this as an opportunity to point out that someone was wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/7 "2018-07-10T17:19:23Z")
For what it’s worth, I think it sounds reasonable, though the opinions of the mods of that forum should carry more weight. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/8 "2018-07-10T17:25:43Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 1. He wasn’t posting as a mod. He didn’t say “moderator note” or the like, but he did appear to be posting as a moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/9 "2018-07-10T17:32:50Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > He didn’t say “moderator note” or the like, but he did appear to be posting as a moderator. Thank you for your explicit answer and to all the implicit information thus imparted. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/10 "2018-07-10T17:45:58Z")
That’s enough, Bo. Be snippy somewhere else. This isn’t the place for it. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/11 "2018-07-10T18:03:18Z")
I don’t typically use moderator tags in ATMB because it’s not my forum to moderate. I use the moderator tags only in times when speaking as a moderator and issuing a directive or instruction. In more rare cases it will be to provide clarification. Discussions in ATMB are in large part to discuss board policy or address questions, so when doing so it’s not issuing a directive, but it is talking and providing clarity about rules and policy, etc. These are the current rules, which align with my view, and how we moderate GD and Elections: > [@](#): > > Great Debates: For long-running discussions of the great questions of our time. This is also the place for religious debates and (if you feel you must) witnessing. > > Elections: For discussion of elections and electoral politics, including strategy and tactics, political parties, individual races, political news, and politicians and public figures. > > We recognize the difficulty of disentangling electoral politics from larger issues of public policy, and leave it to the discretion of users whether to start political threads in Elections or Great Debates. We’re not interested in making work for ourselves and - except in cases of grossly inappropriate topics - or (within reason) requests by the OP will not move threads. Users are free to debate which type of posts should go in what forum, but don’t expect us to settle these arguments. We reserve the right to close threads or take other appropriate steps if SDMB rules are violated. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elections-as-a-forum-title/817633/12 "2018-07-10T18:17:58Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > These are the current rules, which align with my view, and how we moderate GD and Elections: Those are the rules, but they aren’t always how Elections is moderated, as these two very recent ATMB threads show: [Elections thread moved to the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=858064) [Thread moved from Elections to IMHO?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857799) Both are about discussions being moved from Elections.