(05-22-2016, 04:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It was helpful to have one place to go to to see who has passed on, rather than a few different ones that would probably get lost in the crowd of threads and have to search through pages and pages of past threads for them.
A miscellaneous category that is not "light-hearted" would be good. Personally I am not interested in "lighthearted" stuff too much; it's mostly boring trivialities. Humor; maybe. But that can appear in any thread.
In view of the slight activity other than mine in putting the obituaries up, such looks like a good idea. One tricky issue might be with persons who fit two or more categories. For example, had the person been Ronald Reagan, would we have had him as a movie star or as a politician? The categories that I have already created are terribly vague. We might as well put them together in one category. It might be off-putting to some to see a gangster sandwiched between a war hero and a Nobel laureate in physics... but that could happen here. That's how the old T4T Forums went.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.