OK. Point of clarification: The inferno isn't where we send discussions to be silenced. It's where we send discussions that can't be held in a civil manner. It's no-man's-land down there, and people can let loose with the Ad Hominems and debate as uncivil as they please. Nobody's in trouble. Nobody's being banned. It's just a topic that isn't working on up here. The effectiveness of masks seems to be one of these topics. We know a topic isn't working here when people are being told to F-off in a forum that people are trying to enjoy peacefully.
This puts me in a spot, because Pastor has a point. I can't just send half of the discussion down there. If he can't speak his mind about masks not working, it follows that others can't speak their mind about people who don't think they work. (At least not up here.)
So I feel like the options are to either move the entire Coronavirus discussion down there, which I don't want to do because I think it's psychologically healthy to discuss what's going on in a vitriol-free environment, or we just send everything related to masks down there and ask that nobody complain about people not masking up here.
But I'm not the only admin here, and I kind of want to hear what everyone thinks. If we move the mask discussion down there, can we keep everything civil up here? Are we good with that compromise?