The new off-topic forum

[Skade]

Merak, consider yourself .sig-ed.

I'm biased, as I'm one of the more active Hivemind people on the boards right now, and I even I did not suggest that the Hive be the name of that forum. I have expressed my concerns about the feelings of my fellow EnWorlders, but honestly I think it's a fine name. Its amusing, and does relate to a good number of people on these boards, even if they are busy enough to not visit that thread much these days. I really hope it is not seen as exclusionary, I know that was not the intention.

You know, I would bet that a good number of the posts on these boards are one liners. A smaller but significant number are only peripherally related to the thread, and quite a few are actually chatter between posters who know each other well enough to make jabs and jokes throughout the threads that thier friends are likely to see it.

The Hivemind simply condenses this. All that cross posting chatter from all of us just gets lumped into one thread. Yeah, there are some of us who do little more than chat, I admit. There are also as many of us who talk about gaming tidbits not worthy of a whole thread, and a good number of Hivers that activly contribute as much as we can.

I don't think by posting to the OT forum anyone has to join the Hivemind, nor would posting there immediatly make you percieved as one, with all the baggage that comes with that.

 

[Henry]

I like the concept of "The Hive" because, no matter what people think, it's the same thing that goes on in Hivemind threads all the time, just spread out over other threads. 99% of the regular posters on these boards have been "Hiveminding" to lesser degree as long as they've been here. Everything from "this potato chip looks like Elvis!" to "How many times to you see businesses with D&D in the title?" to "How do I properly Brine this Turkey?!?!" to "What computer hardware do I choose?" - it's ALL hivemind.

That said, the name still ain't right, to me. I myself will keep thinking, and posting, until either

(A) the experiement fails, or

(B) someone's cutesy Forum Name spreads like, "Who let the dogs out?"

 

[Tom Cashel]

If "Good morning, Hive, I'm awake now" is an acceptable post, then "I'm drunk" and "I just ate a ham sandwich" threads should be allowed as well.

99% of the regular posters on these boards have been "Hiveminding" to lesser degree as long as they've been here. Everything from "this potato chip looks like Elvis!" to "How many times to you see businesses with D&D in the title?" to "How do I properly Brine this Turkey?!?!" to "What computer hardware do I choose?" - it's ALL hivemind.

Agreed, in a sense. But all of that has a topic attached. [Hivemind] threads have no topic; they are Hivemind, they are strictly for chatting, and nothing more has ever been asked of them.

That other 99% have a few guidelines attached, wouldn't you say?

 

[Umbran]

99% of the regular posters on these boards have been "Hiveminding" to lesser degree as long as they've been here.

Yes and no.

For one thing, Mr. Cashel is correct, in that your usual non-Hivemind thread really doesn't bear much resemblence to a Hivemind thread. There's a qualitative difference there. If there weren't, the Hivemind would never have developed, hm?

For another - those 99% have been discussing OT for years. Since long before the Hivemind sprang up. That makes HIvemind a subset of OT, not the other way around.

My concern is that you'll tend to drive other folks away from the OT forum with the implicit statement that they are really taking part in Hivemind stuff. Rather than worrying about it becoming exclusionary, I'm worried aobut it being too inclusionary - tacking the label where it isn't entirely accurate, onto people who don't want it. The Hivemind is a bunch of people who self-identify as such, and perhaps it is better for them and for everyone else if it remain that way.

 

[Piratecat]

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. I don't see any forum labeled "The Hive."

 

[Umbran]

Okay, I think "Sassy Henry's Soapbox" is a way cool name for the forum. Good show, sirs!

 

[Michael Morris]

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. I don't see any forum labeled "The Hive."

Refresh your cache kitty.

Edit: Tricksee Pirate... Argh

I'm not going to redraw that logo everytime you guys switch the name.

 

[Piratecat]

No, of course not.

We might play around with it for a bit; leave the current cool logo until we settle down or finally decide on something.

 

[Angcuru]

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.

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If "Good morning, Hive, I'm awake now" is an acceptable post, then "I'm drunk" and "I just ate a ham sandwich" threads should be allowed as well.

You seem to miss the point of the Hivemind, Tom. It's a place to go and be silly, not a place to chat. Don't you think we'd use the chatroom if that's the way we wanted to communicate?

You also seem to not know the difference between a post and a thread. I thought you would, for all your time here.
Post - Comment in a conversation
Thread - Conversation

 

[(contact)]

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.

You should post more and lurk less. You get it.