Let's fix this place up.

here's a reason why
http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2853

also back at sw, for each subforum, there was at least one sticky to explain what the forum is and about. i see the rc here lacks that. all people know about this forum is its about "Rubik's Cube: Intelligent conversation". people hate writing essays for school as it is. no way they're gonna write essays in their free time over the internets just to get people to discuss about it (some people might, but sp is mostly high schoolers. they have other things they'd rather be thinking about).

also evident that people have on idea what this place is exactly about is all the threads i see that was moved just from the main page alone.

http://www.southperry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=23
5 threads moved and 2 threads closed.

Yeah, he tried, but he's not capable of dealing with the kind of people who post here. As you said, this is mostly high schoolers who aren't interested in writing essays. And an "essay" section is exactly what I DON'T want this to become. Think of this thread as a way to formulate the Sticky that will explain this section's purpose. I'm opening this up for suggestions because the people who visit this forum are the ones who are going to be posting here, and it seems ridiculous to me to go and set rules that prevent this from getting used. If the members want stricter, IDK-like rules, we can have that. if they don't care about this section's existence at all, we can do that too. I'm looking for something in between the pointless laxity that exists at the moment and strict rules that discourage posting.