bone_naga
Explorer
It had been discussed, but we're all gamers. We like the gaming forums. I've been an ENWorld member for a little while now. I don't post all that often (my posts here probably outnumber all the other posts I made on EN throughout my membership) but I lurk in other forums quite a bit (and even post on occasion). I'll probably post a lot more in other forums once I have more time on my hands. Besides, in our own OTTer forum, there would be no interaction with anyone else. In the OTT, there were other people that came through and posted once in a while, they just weren't regulars. I'm sure it's the same here too.As a regular here, I think the modding is good. I've been on forums with mystery or crappy moderation. This site is better. If nothing else, I am compatible with the moddng style and the posting style here.
EN World gets new people all the time. They seem to integrate just fine, with only a few people who need some correction. Part of this is likely because they lurk for awhile, then the contribute to some posts, then they start new topics. They grow to fit in.
The OTTers seem to be a different animal. They have their own forum culture that they have transplanted here at EN World. I'm probably wrong, but I don't think the OTTers post anywhere than the Misc forum.
This certainly feels where the collision is. In some ways, it is not clear why the OTTers didn't just setup/sign up for their own free forum somewhere they could control the modding and do things exactly how they want. The Misc topic forum at EN probably wasn't meant to be the primary place of business that the OTTers used OTT for at WotC.
We aren't some overly cliquish group (or at least we try not to be). We only became OTTers by frequently posting in the OTT (we could try to be Miscers but it just doesn't have the same ring to it). We are just gamers that talked to each other a lot. Even when we formed a private group to carry on some of our discussions, the group changed over time. Some people left and new people came. We didn't intentionally bring our own culture over here, it just sort of happens when an entire group of people move at once instead of one or two guys each drifting to a new forum on their own.
Honestly I've been somewhat amused and somewhat confused by the fact that we garnered this much attention as a group.