this forum has gone to hell

stuartcurran wrote:

One thing I would say though is that maybe all this socializing could be kept to one thread. That one that's something like "Nettangel showed her pic now you show yours" seems like a good one, I really don't think we need an individual thread for our favorite songs/movies/hockey teams/etc. That allows people to communicate with each other and not take up the whole forum, and so everyone's happy (excluding trolls).

I understand this, and it makes sense, but at the same time, one OT thread for hockey and songs and everything else is not realistic. I do not want to wade through 200 pages to find out who likes what hockey team. The nice thing about this forum, and really most forums that are about a single topic and not a help thread is that a certainty community forms and a closeness develops. Part of the human experience, we just cannot help ourselves. The downside is that cliques form and some people feel intimidated to post or ask things because they feel they might be ridiculed or derailed or any other number of things, that legitimately could or may not happen.

In the end what we have here is a group of regulars that enjoy spending inordinate amounts of time on a forum board talking to one another when there is not much else going on in the game.

I would ask you, what are some in game things you want to discuss? I do not mean that in any negative way, but if you feel there are things not being covered that you want to talk about, please bring them up.

spiffshine wrote:
I appreciate the more thoughtful posts here - zuzupj and mdfriend, you have summed it for for me quite well (as you so often do) so +1 for those. I also see your points, rabbikrustofski and stuartcurran and can even agree somewhat.

I agree that on topic threads should not be derailed, otherwise all our telling people to search is for naught.

However, I don't agree that one should hold back on starting worthwhile threads for fear of derailment. I'd love for you to share som of these ideas, rabbikrustofski. I think you will find that, even with the socializing regulars, we live talking about the game. It's what brought us here in the first place!

The forum is General Discussion, after all...

Odd, I do not see zuzu's post