Please Ease Up on OT Posting

[MEG Hal]

I hate to say it Angc... but wouldn't that actually have to be written down for people to know about it? (I mean, I don't want to phone up 12,000 people just to tell 'em about it! )

I am waiting for my call...
*taps fingers*
I am not going out for the holiday, just so I do not miss my call.
*still waiting*

 

[William Ronald]

Perhaps another guideline would be whether or not the subject is something that might benefit someone's game or gamers in general. For example, the recent thread on that strange animal carcass that washed ashore in Chile made me think of Call of Cthulhu. A lot of the off topic subjects seem to have little to do with the general theme (gaming) of these boards.

Of course, for political discourse there are many places to go. You might want to try Church and State on Nutkinland.

 

[Eternalknight]

People can always just come into the biggest OT thread of all, the Hivemind.... c'mon, we don't bite....

 

[robaustin]

How about a separate "Off Topic" Forum. Lots of other boards do this, the off topic is a hang out place to talk about anything BUT the board's main purpose- which is what GENERAL seems to have almost become. Shouldn't we be deadling with D20 STUFF IN GENERAL on general board, rather then OT stuff?

--*Rob

 

[Dinkeldog]

Perhaps another guideline would be whether or not the subject is something that might benefit someone's game or gamers in general. For example, the recent thread on that strange animal carcass that washed ashore in Chile made me think of Call of Cthulhu. A lot of the off topic subjects seem to have little to do with the general theme (gaming) of these boards.

Plots and Places.

 

[Dinkeldog]

How about a separate "Off Topic" Forum. Lots of other boards do this, the off topic is a hang out place to talk about anything BUT the board's main purpose- which is what GENERAL seems to have almost become. Shouldn't we be deadling with D20 STUFF IN GENERAL on general board, rather then OT stuff?

--*Rob

Please go to Meta and check the thread on that topic. The short answer is the subject comes up and the answer is always "no". The rationale is in the Meta thread.

 

[The_Gneech]

OT was nerfed!


Someone had to say it.

*sigh*

Yeah ... "OT posts got the shaft" is so 2001...

-The Gneech

 

[BVB]

This thread absolutely positively without a doubt needs to be moved to the Meta forum. I've never seen a more blatant disregard for specific forum purposes. This is obviously a thread that discusses other thread topics -- i.e. "meta." I can point to at least a zillion other examples of threads like this that were moved within seconds after initial posting.

... But not this one.

Hey, D.Dawg, why haven't you moved this thread yet?

 

[William Ronald]

Originally posted by Dinkeldog:


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Originally posted by William Ronald
Perhaps another guideline would be whether or not the subject is something that might benefit someone's game or gamers in general. For example, the recent thread on that strange animal carcass that washed ashore in Chile made me think of Call of Cthulhu. A lot of the off topic subjects seem to have little to do with the general theme (gaming) of these boards.

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Plots and Places.

Perhaps it might be a good idea to stress that such items might best go in Plots and Places. A lot of the OT subjects might be better off in that forum. The problem now would be getting the word out to the community. Hmm, maybe a tag line.

"If it's real, put it in Plots and Places. That's the deal."

Okay, not too catchy but I don't work at an advertising agency.

 

[Lela]

"If it's real, put it in Plots and Places. That's the deal."

Okay, not too catchy but I don't work at an advertising agency.

I liked it. We should go with that.

(It's got my vote.)