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<blockquote data-quote="WizO_Pounamu" data-source="post: 2564357">You will not get beat up for one off-topic post but you may be &quot;poked&quot;. Constantly trying to get people to talk about something that has utterly nothing to do with what they came for (eg &quot;does this color make me look fat?&quot; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel&nbsp; &nbsp; :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /> ) is annoying and harmful to the rest of the room.I think the point you are missing is the level of tollerance. There is a difference between something meandering off the topic and someone trying to derail it. If it meanders off, it may well meander back on. That is natural in conversation and if new people join in, they can still figure out why you're now talking about clerical humour when the name of the thread is &quot;how to get rid of a rabid zombie&quot; and if they have a question to ask the topic returns to answer it.It's a different story if someone insists upon comparing everything to what they saw on &quot;Friends&quot; last night and would Joey be able to beat your cleric up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> &nbsp;Erm... I think you'll find that if you are using a role-play example in a discussion, people will recognise it as an example, not just role play.If you take comments as attacks and try to fight people or pretend that you and your character's partner are using the room for a camp site, its disruptive. 3min of role play is one thing. 15 min is another.The opposite is also true. Most players do not jump into the in-character only ISRP rooms to hear how someone's sword should have lopped off someone else's head because &quot;they didn't even have any stats and I'm 20lv so there!&quot; If people want to talk about things the rest of the room doesn't need to hear, they are free to use Private Messages.As for Spam, I personally don't see how a discussion &quot;needs spam&quot; to flow. General humour is not spam. Intentionally posting something pointless is spam.If a thread or discussion needs pointless or intentionally annoying posts to get traffic, the thread is dead my friend, move on to the next topic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizO_Pounamu, post: 2564357"] You will not get beat up for one off-topic post but you may be "poked". Constantly trying to get people to talk about something that has utterly nothing to do with what they came for (eg "does this color make me look fat?" :angel: ) is annoying and harmful to the rest of the room. I think the point you are missing is the level of tollerance. There is a difference between something meandering off the topic and someone trying to derail it. If it meanders off, it may well meander back on. That is natural in conversation and if new people join in, they can still figure out why you're now talking about clerical humour when the name of the thread is "how to get rid of a rabid zombie" and if they have a question to ask the topic returns to answer it. It's a different story if someone insists upon comparing everything to what they saw on "Friends" last night and would Joey be able to beat your cleric up. :rolleyes: Erm... I think you'll find that if you are using a role-play example in a discussion, people will recognise it as an example, not just role play. If you take comments as attacks and try to fight people or pretend that you and your character's partner are using the room for a camp site, its disruptive. 3min of role play is one thing. 15 min is another. The opposite is also true. Most players do not jump into the in-character only ISRP rooms to hear how someone's sword should have lopped off someone else's head because "they didn't even have any stats and I'm 20lv so there!" If people want to talk about things the rest of the room doesn't need to hear, they are free to use Private Messages. As for Spam, I personally don't see how a discussion "needs spam" to flow. General humour is not spam. Intentionally posting something pointless is spam. If a thread or discussion needs pointless or intentionally annoying posts to get traffic, the thread is dead my friend, move on to the next topic. ;) [/QUOTE]

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