The new off-topic forum

[William Ronald]

I am willing to give the OT a chance. Perhaps it can be a place to put some of the real world stuff, in which case maybe changing its name to the Real World will help. Maybe better defining its purpose might help.

 

[Darrin Drader]

NKL is a wonderful place - once you're through the requisite hazing.

I was there for about two weeks and no requisite hazing. Finally I intentionally provoked it by being a troll and then they let me have it (quite deservedly!).

 

[Umbran]

I dunno about everyone else, but what I'm seeing is this - that which is interesting sprinkled in with the general gaming conversation isn't all that attractive when bunched up together.

 

[jdavis]

I was there for about two weeks and no requisite hazing. Finally I intentionally provoked it by being a troll and then they let me have it (quite deservedly!).

Yea I pretty much just lurk around NKL. I get a real kick out of the dynamic there but it is a whole different world than EN World, sort of like if somebody built a biker bar in the back room of a Chuck-E-Cheese. Little kids walk around the wrong corner and get mugged for tokens and skeeball tickets.

I don't think the OT forum here will have that type of effect as the same rules apply in that forum as the rest of the forums here. So far I haven't noticed any major ripples in the EN World space/time fabric or anything, just another forum to visit has popped up (although it's not really all that interesting there either.)

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Not sure how i feal about an OT forum. Seems kinda wrong, but...in a ok way. Maybe calling it "Community chest" or something and tagging it as more of a place for the communtiy to go discuss non game stuff would sit better, IMO anyway. Eh, i don't know...

 

[Mark]

Maybe calling it "Community chest"

...I like that...

 

[Robbert Raets]

Hmmm, off-topic forum....

Hey! Does this mean off-topic polls are no longer forbidden?!


Mwuhahahaahaaaaaa!!

 

[Umbran]

Maybe calling it "Community chest" or something and tagging it as more of a place for the communtiy to go discuss non game stuff would sit better...

Probably. Though I wonder at the wisdom of naming it as a reference to a pre-existing group of board members. Now everyone who wants to talk about off topic stuff is de facto participating in the Hivemind? *shrug*.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I really liked that Forum. Now that it's "The Hive," I...I just don't.

Maybe it's because I don't like the Hivemind threads (10 pages of one-line posts? Use the chatroom, folks!). Now that name is applied to everything in there, despite a huge list of good suggestions.

Bleh.

 

[MerakSpielman]

I just knew they'd spread... Soon we'll all be in the Hive... I'll bet the OT forum was just a Hive ploy from the beginning. Some day we'll log in and there won't be the forums, there'll just be the OverHive.