(December 2, 2019 at 10:16 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote:(December 1, 2019 at 2:57 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: We've been around for a bit and, as others have said in different ways, we found that we needed a way to try to stave off people's need to joke about.
Yeah, I get that. I'm not asking "Why the serious tag?" because I think there's some sort of problem in being serious. I've made it clear that I think seriousness is the default mode.
If you need to stave off people's need to joke about on SERIOUS DISCUSSION WEBSITE .... then wouldn't it make more sense to just create a subforum where joking as allowed and then put it in the rules that's the only place for that? Like I said, you could call it "The Playground".
That was a thing we did back when I was a moderator those places are R'lyeh, The Adult Lounge, and Area 69. Off Topic was always around for, well, off topic conversations. Our moderators have always been pretty lax but I did spend time cutting out unrelated things and moving them to new posts when needed, but that rarely happens now. It never feels heavily policed and I think that is part of why I like this forum. Anyway, welcome and bring on the seriousness! I leave it to you to experiment with the serious tag to assess whether it is needed or even does anything at all.
