# Post your ideas for GD threads **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471 "2019-12-06T16:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471/1 "2019-12-06T16:13:58Z")
I don’t think we have a high enough frequency of good GD threads that people enjoy participating in. I’m sure many of us have half-baked OPs in the cobwebbed recesses of our minds. Writing a good OP can be hard work, and maybe you’re not sure people are interested. Maybe you don’t know enough about a topic (although I think “What’s up with [topic]” can be a perfectly acceptable start to a thread, especially for current events) and need some help coalescing it. Maybe you’d love to read a debate about something but are hoping someone else will do the work 😉 Have an idea? Post it here. See one you like? Post some encouragement. Help flesh it out. Or start it yourself. I’ll start: Something, anything, energy-related Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing. Maybe a “should we allow it?” kind of thread. SAT “Adversity Scores”, described in this WSJ article: [What Happens if SAT Scores Consider Adversity? Find Your School - WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-happens-if-sat-scores-consider-adversity-11574773201) The opioid crisis and those naughty pharmaceutical companies Federal disability insurance (e.g. SSDI), and is there a better way to do it. I’m also curious how other countries operate. Something, anything, related to mental healthcare in the US. “Right to repair”, wrt phones, tractors, etc. Zoning, building codes. I have in my notes to reference the June 3 2019 EconTalk episode on Alain Bertraud: [Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design - Econlib](https://www.econtalk.org/alain-bertaud-on-cities-planning-and-order-without-design/) (link has a transcript, as “listen to this podcast” makes for a shitty OP IMO) “Housing first” homeless strategy – is it working? > **[Housing First](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First)** > > Housing First is a policy that offers unconditional, permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward. It was first discussed in the 1990s, and in the following decades became government policy in certain locations within the Western world. There is a substantial base of evidence showing that Housing First is both an effective solution to homelessness and a form of cost savings, as it also reduces the use of public services like hospitals, ja Ho... Most of the data I see are from a ~decade ago. But I saw this article the other day: > **['It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness](https://getpocket.com/explore/item/it-s-a-miracle-helsinki-s-radical-solution-to-homelessness)** > > Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally Open source / paywalled academic literature Why should you pay for my Metro ride? Taxpayer support of public transit. I think I have a mostly-written OP stashed somewhere. Gendered language, particularly in languages where all nouns/pronouns have gender: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/05/teens-argentina-are-leading-charge-gender-neutral-language/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/12/05/teens-argentina-are-leading-charge-gender-neutral-language/) Pretty much anything before SCOTUS, past or present. And I’ll finish this with a funny Wikipedia article I found, “List of controversial issues”: [Wikipedia:List of controversial issues - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues) I boxed it because it lists sex stuff, just in case that’s a problem. I’m we’re all looking for a rousing debate on Criticism of Windows Vista ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471/2 "2019-12-06T18:22:58Z")
Have we done the banning of cashless stores? I don’t spend much time in GD these days but I may return more. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471/3 "2019-12-06T21:41:55Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Have we done the banning of cashless stores? I don’t spend much time in GD these days but I may return more. I think it’s come up in other threads but don’t recall a GD thread specifically on it. Happy to take an extreme view on it one way or another if you need someone to argue with :D. Or do a neutral, scholarly thing if that’s more your bag. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471/4 "2019-12-06T21:45:49Z")
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871030](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871030) I lied. This year, even. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-ideas-for-gd-threads/844471/5 "2019-12-06T21:58:47Z")
You could recycle options from [this](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=828915) thread.