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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1513758" data-attributes="member: 99">I couldn't agree with you more, Joshua (see, here I go dogpiling on poor marlaxle <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  The large majority of threads I see around here are civil and intelligent discussions of the topic at hand.  When things do occasionally get heated, a moderator frequently pops in with a friendly reminder to keep things, well, friendly.I may be in a minority, but I am far less "product driven" and far more "idea driven" when it comes to why I come to ENWorld and what threads I look at while I'm here.  I don't buy a new gaming book more often than about every other month or so.  The trick is that most of our campaigns run for 6-9 months of real time and we try not to introduce new materials in mid-campaign.  So we accumulate various books over the course of the campaign and will use some of this new material at the start of the next one.As a result, I very rarely participate in (or even read) many of the threads about the latest, greatest product coming down the d20 pike.I used to read the Rules Forum as much as anything and I found in my early days of playing 3E that it was a rare day that I did not discover that we were misinterpreting a rule or gaining a better understanding of the nuances of some spell or other.  This gradually decreased as some of the more obvious rules issues were hammered out and the lines being drawn in some of the debates became increasingly fine.  My use of Rules dropped off considerably when 3.5 came out and our group did not convert.  Suddenly the vast majority of the Rules threads were focused on the 3.0-3.5 changes and these did not concern me.That shifted my interest in the boards more to General and this is where I spend the large majority of my time here now.  But what I've noticed in General is that our database of past threads has possibly contributed to a decline in the number of posts in some of the newer threads.  I often see somebody ask a question and among the first few posts, somebody (who is no doubt doing their best to be helpful) will post something like, "A lengthy thread on this topic was discussed earlier.  You can find it here [Link]."On the face of it, this is a Good Thing.  But it can sometimes be a threadkiller because (I'm guessing) people will click the link, note that the previous thread was 8 pages long, begin to read it and get their answer.  Not much need for further discussion after that.Regardless of all that, I still find enough compelling topics on most days to keep me interested for a little while and it is probably best that there aren't more topics that I can't help but read since I need to get some work done too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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