The purpose of this site would be:
- Bring the discussion of Plasma Cosmology to a wider audience with greater search engine visibility.
Stack Exchange is the most popular platform for this type of thing, with millions of users across all disciplines. (Perhaps a little skewed towards younger people in the IT industry, but that can't hurt.) - Provide a new and different format for discussion, with each post being a direct, focused, answerable question, and each reply being a direct answer to the original question.
(i.e. not a traditional discussion board.) - Work in tandem with the Thunderbolts forum to expand knowledge and enlightenment on the topic of Plasma Cosmology.
Since the proposed Stack Exchange site would be for clear and concise Q&A only, in the event that a more lengthy comment thread were to arise, we would recommend that they move the discussion to a more appropriate forum, with the Thunderbolts forum generally being a top candidate.
Furthermore, the Thunderbolts forum will be a significant resource people attempting to answer open questions, and source links will frequently refer people back to the Thunderbolts forum. - Encourage interested people of all education levels to engage in open discussion on relevant topics, while discouraging inappropriate behavior (such as childish comments, off-topic questions, duplicate questions, incorrect answers, general lack of effort, pointless bickering, personal attacks, etc.) by utilizing Stack Exchange's sophisticated and highly effective user reputation system, multi-tier reputation-based access to moderation tools, and elected volunteer top-level administration.
(You can browse the overall FAQ for exhaustive details on how the proposed Plasma Cosmology Q&A site would be self-sustained and operated by all participating members the EU community.) - Gradually build a permanent library of questions and answers, that can morph and evolve as more research is performed and more discoveries are published.
When an internet user is searching for an answer on a specific topic, relevant posts at the appropriate topical Stack Exchange Q&A sites are frequently found in the top search engine results, allowing the proposed Plasma Cosmology Q&A site to become a primary resource reaching a more vast audience across all reaches the internet. - Make all forms of participation free of charge for everyone involved, with no paid staff, no paid hosting, zero technical administration requirements, and no off-topic or intrusive advertising.
Stack Exchange automates all of these services free of charge, with topic-appropriate non-intrusive advertising included to cover their own bills.
However, please be aware that the existing Physics Q&A site is for mainstream physics only, by policy, so we can't utilize the existing Physics Q&A site to discuss EU topics until/unless pieces of the Plasma Cosmology model become more widely accepted in the mainstream physics academic establishment.
Therefore, for example, if someone were to post a general mainstream physics question on the proposed Plasma Cosmology Q&A site, without any specific EU context, our moderators would simply move the question over to the general Physics Q&A site (and vice versa) in an ongoing effort to help keep these two sites non-redundant, non-competitive, and strictly focused on their respective assigned topics.
After all, one of the main priorities is to encourage constructive conversation with outside groups, and discourage pointless bickering between mainstream physicists and EU proponents.
Please feel free to reply to this thread with any thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions, or concerns.
If you'd like to help support this proposal, head on over to StackExchange's proposed site staging area (don't mind the aliens ), locate the proposal for Plasma Cosmology either by using the search box or browsing under the Science category (it's currently on the second page), create a Stack Exchange account if you don't already have one, "follow" the Plasma Cosmology site proposal, submit up to five of your own example questions to help flesh out the type of content we want to foster, vote on other people's posted example questions, leave comments with your suggestions or critiques, and even open up general discussions if you'd like.