Originally Posted by willravel

Otto's earlier thread reminded me of something that's been in the back of my mind whenever I start or post in a thread here in Politics: we need to name a problem, provide evidence of the problem, discuss the reason it happened, and then how to improve or solve the problem.

I'll admit I don't always do this. I've been on TFP for years now and I've developed habits of arguing and arguing and arguing instead of solving, and I do a disservice to everyone here as well as myself when I get lazy or bitter or whatever and just jump in line.

We need to be solution based or we're damned to become sedentary and redundant. I've seen other political forums online give into this completely and they atrophy and die. And they deserve to die because they cease to be functional in any way. *Remember*, TFP is about the evolution of thought. This is characterized by adaptation, natural selection, mutation, and forward movement.

So I challenge everyone: be solution-centric in your posting.