Theology was just an example, but a relevant one: in a forum devoted to the improvement of rationality, discussing about some flavor of thoughts that have by long being proved irrational should amount to trolling. I'm not talking trying to justify rationally theism, that had and might still have a place here, but discussing theology as if theism was true shouldn't be allowed.
On the other hand, you cannot explicitly ban everything that is off-topic, so that isn't written anywhere shouldn't be a proof against.
On the other hand, you cannot explicitly ban everything that is off-topic, so that isn't written anywhere shouldn't be a proof against.
LW never used to have an explicit or implicit ban against being off-topic. Off-topic posts used to get downvoted and not banned.
We delete spam, we delete advocacy of illegal violence and the Basilisk got deleted under the idea that it's a harmful idea.
An off-topic post about theism would be noise and not harmful, so it's not worth banning under our philosophy for banning posts.
In addition, I don't think that it's even t...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here.
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