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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 1261059" data-attributes="member: 2572">Just my own thoughts and opinions.I am not sure about an Off Topic Forum myself. I never minded the OT posts in general as long as they remained controled. I even liked such things as news posts about Cthulhu washing up on the beach. Which brings up the question how far OT does something need to be? I would like to continue to see tangential posts like Roman D20s or giant Alaskan bird sightings in General. I think they are related and interesting. Now that brings up such things as I'm having a baby or I got married posts next. While definitely OT they were not overwhelming things. I didn't mind the Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Movie Forum since those threads were overwhelming general. That forum is now one of my top visits whenever I am here. Having a forum for baby/wedding news would be uninteresting in its own right without something extra, however dragging all tangential posts as well will strip General of the community feel it has while still leaving OT not interesting enough in its own right to visit. If this remains in effect I will likely drop General from general viewing and stick with Rules and House Rules for my D&D fix and keeping Sci-Fi for my community OT fix. As for a name for the OT forum. I have not minded the Hive being around too much but the name in particular always kept me out. Dispite claims to the contrary it always seemed clicish and exclusionary in concept to me. Calling it just [OT Conversation] or something more descriptive whould have made it more appealing but naming it the Hivemind (brings up concepts of mindless drones all part of a simiilar thinking collective) and people declaring themselves "Part of the Hive" left me feeling it was a clic membership thing. Naming the OT forum "The Hive" drags the same connotations to the forum and leaves me even less desireous of entering and participating.  It feels to me that a group of regulars I never wanted to join up with has taken over the community since all OT posts are now thier domain. I also don't see the need to come up with a cutesy name  at all. The best forum names in my opion are the simplest most descriptive ones which also allow new people to find the right place for things. My own preference if it is decided to keep the forum (and even durring testing) would be to name it "Off Topic and Community News" I have always liked ENWorld for its decorum and sense of community and that is in part from the high moderation to keep out inflamitory and controversial subjects. Not everyone likes the Hive and declaring the OT forum to be the Hive only leaves me feeling like a second class citizen of the board for not joining into this clic.Again these are only my opinions. While you may feel free to defend the Hive please don't do so in the hopes that I will be converted to your way of thinking.</blockquote>

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