[Rant] Topics I'm sick to death of

[Barendd Nobeard]

IMO, It'll be diffrent... here.

When 3E came out, not everybody was for it, but the community that assembled at were was for it, in a great majority. Nay-sayers have left since then, and for a couple of years, we were all a 3.0 bunch.

Now with 3.5 coming out, it seems that many people will stick with 3.0, while many others will switch to 3.5. We'll still have to cohabit at ENWorld, since no one decided to start a diffrent site for 3.5...

TS

Why will it be different here? Both groups (3.0 and 3.5) will be in one place. And we'll get to have our own little internal "version wars" (in a nice, grandmother-friendly way) every day as people discuss both 3.0 and 3.5.

And, consequently, we will get threads (couched in nice terms, mind you) debating differences between the editions. It might be phrased as an innocuous direct question ("Can you help me make my 3.5 gnome illusionist just as effective as he was in 3.0?") or it might be phrased more subtlely, or more troll-ish, or whatever. But I think it will happen. Heck, we've had so many threads about the *shipping* of 3.5 books, I think the content will produce more threads.

And, just as the threads die down....4th edition. And it starts all over again.

 

[RSKennan]

So, how about an off topic forum where we can move all these threads to??

I like this idea. How about a rant forum, specifically geared towards product complaints (and the disagreeing threads)? That way those of us who would rather read positive and informative threads could ignore these. A rave might still be possible in general, provided it was not in response to a rant.

The only problem might be that such a forum might encourage this behavior.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

God help me, but I hate hate HATE the Hivemind threads. I can't figure out if they realize it's absolutely of no interest to anyone but themselves.

Ordinarily, I can sniff out a lame thread before I enter it, so "3.5 sux" threads don't offend me too much. But when I see Hivemind threads that take up 10 or more pages, I think about how much bandwidth that's wasting. Bandwidth I help pay for, incidentally, not that I'd ever use that against them .

 

[Dave G]

Feh, Hivemind doesn't bother me, unlike some other former Pantheon members, I think they've got their own little niche to play in, and sometimes can be fun to read.

One thing that does bother me? Barber Poles! *shudder*