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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 1265028" data-attributes="member: 14664">I guess the theory goes like this:1) Given that the scope of the forum is potentially everything except roleplaying stuff, there is theoretically way more to talk about (i.e everything in the world other than RPGs).2) This can then lead to a situation where the off-topic forum is seeing far more activity than the on-topic forums, meaning that it's nature in many ways becomes the defacto nature of the whole site.3) Since it can often be easier to have rows on off-topic subjects than on roleplaying (since we're all roleplayers but may violently disagree on other subjects), the off-topic forum can get much more "heated" than the on-topic forum.Combine points 2 and 3 and you could theoretically get a situation where an off-topic forum changes the nature of the whole site.On the other hand, both strong disagreements and active discussion usually revolve around politics or religion (or closely related subjects). Since they are banned round here, I suspect that the off-topic forum will remain a quiet backwater, and not, therefore, affect the site as a whole.</blockquote>