I have been thinkng about this for a while and thought best to put it out there for some debate.

We on ATS have some very bright people who hold/share specialist information on a huge spectrum of philosophy, research etc. Indeed it is a place where people who need guidance or want to help with a particular subject will come and do just that.

I have seen many threads rolling on, making progress until someone comes along and says 'hold on guys this is old news' or 'this has already been debated here' etc. This could be seen as a waste of time.

My point is that ATS could move forward by creating a form of an intellectual commons. Where groups of established subject experts create lines of research for others to follow. So an aspiring researcher or seeker or whatever you wish to call them would be able to access focused, unbiased and structured information in a set format to bring them up to speed with what our most able members know at present.

What I mean is, it would be like saying
'This is what is true, if you look at this, this and this you will probably reach the same conclusion' You then have one more person who is at the same point as yourself and can help to take things forward.

This would have a number of knock on benefits:

1.It would allow people to easily broaden their knowledge base outside of their original interest areas.
2. It would make ATS even more of legend in contemporary thought and move it's vision forward,
3. As we will not be discussing old information,it will potentially allow discussions/research to be more effective and move in a more structured manor.

Of course we will have to be careful. What gets included and what doesn't?
This would be the job of a pre-selected group of cubject experts.
I do not propose that we do away with other areas of ATS to accomadate this but use it as another tool.

I hope this makes sense.

Not sure this should be in politics

Sounds like a great idea to me!
Mods? All movements have to start somewhere, and perhaps we CAN save the world, or least minimize the damage.

The world is already safe.

The will ppl have is already set eternal. This world will do what it would do, and will not do what it would not do come to points arisen for the eternal will set.

The world and this world are two different.

Those who will is set for bettering this world can not so as along as those whose will is set for worsening this world are here too. This world must go away into destruction since we, who are for bettering things, really are better off apart from this world.

Trust me, nothing better will get done here in this world, unless you remove those who are worsening this world.

Just my 2 cent. You can only pretend this world will get better since you must know it will not actually. Most of my threads in Meltdown section would actually better this world, but no one else is willing to see to it. Why? Because their will is set eternal.

A great idea!! I am just getting in to all this stuff at the moment and am struggling to find where to start.looking. There is so much 'disinformation' available at the moment, I was looking through random things on reptilians and stumbled across this site, would love to get some expert information on this topic.

Firstly, I agree that this is not listed in the correct subject area.

Secondly, I think the title of the thread is slightly misleading.

Thirdly, it is in fact quite a good idea,one of the flaws being, how would we agree on the parts that make up the threads of knowledge?

Cedik, I'd like to compliment you for a well thought out, and well intentioned concept. Unfortunately, I have seen far too many abuses of censorship by "people put positions of responsibility" here at ATS, that I sadly fear it would do more harm than good.

Here is why:
They have created and abused their powers so badly, that now they push and "move" any thread they don't like onto an old stale thread with more than 1000 posts that no one will read. I have personally witnessed this first hand.

I, like you, do love what ATS stands for, but unfortunately, many of the middle "leadership" just don't get it, or worse, actively sabotage it.

I will star and flag your post though.
Best regards.


[edit on 18-10-2008 by ATS4dummies]

This has been brought up countless times on ATS and T&C implies activism is forbidden on the Above network.

We do not recruit or support third parties either.

I'm not discrediting the power and passion of your heart, but ATS does not support activism.

Haven't read all the responses. Just replying to the question posed in the thread title.

And in one word, the answer is "no."

ATS can help save the world......yeah right. No offense guys, the site's great and all, but how could a group of people who can't even agree on who's right and who's wrong with various topics, dealing with trolls and the like POSSIBLY save the world?

You're asking enough with saying "save the net", look at Blossom Goodchild, ATS's existance didn't stop her from going on about whatever it was she was on about. Sorry, but no...ATS can't save anything...it's got enough troubles saving itself (and I mean that in the best possible way.)