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Google-fu turned up PhilosophyForums.com. It seems like a decent first-order approximation of where we could send people looking to post on philosophy less analytically/technically than is typical here.
Does anyone know a better option? I only found that site just now...
ETA: Further searching for specifically rationality-oriented sites that aren't subtitled something-about-atheism isn't turning up much; and we might want to keep the attention of theists at least long enough to inspire some thought!
Perhaps RobinZ's suggestion to use the proposed open thread/discussion board/forum thing is the best.
The problem with sending people to general philosophy sites is that there is generally a lot of confusion between "philosophy" and "history of philosophy", and the latter is more common. People tend to get railroaded into reading philosophers that're old and prestigious, but much more confusing than a modern rehash of the same topics would be. A quick glance at philosophyforums.com confirmed my suspicion that it's dominated by history of philosophy. If we aren't careful to avoid that, we'll be doing people a great disservice.
Agreed. There aren't enough good modern rehashings of the same things. But 'philosophy' doesn't seem to be the right sort of thing to start folks off on anyway.