(July 9, 2015 at 11:07 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Almost broke the rule about personal attacks.
You didn't provide a good argument. You just basically gave me the finger and shut me up 'cause you didn't like the idea. Very interesting. Nice politics going on here, too, I see.
Excuse me? Cthulhu Dreaming literally defined "Off Topic" for you; there was an equal sign and everything, and then you respond to him going "that's actually not how off-topic is defined". Yes it is, one of the admins just defined it for you. You don't get more defined than when one of the very people who actually runs the site defines it.
I didn't give you the finger; I didn't even come close. I told you what's what, and that I don't find your argument for a new sub-forum convincing. You can interpret that as me giving you the finger and telling you to shut up if you want, but it's not at all the case.
Quote:There's a difference between policing hard on every single thread-maker out there, and providing them with more ways to be as accurate as warranted about where they place their own threads. Then, if someone wanted a dedicated audience, they would just post something in a given subforum, catering to their particular needs, instead of risking to 1) get buried under countless other threads that bare no similarities whatsoever(broadly speaking) with each others and 2) Get distasteful, offtopic and even downright stupid replies.
If, say, a team of people actually wrapped their heads around this, for a given set of days, they might actually come up with some pretty brilliant ideas about covering every single possible subject on the face of the earth(or the outlies of the universe, really) with a new sort of forums distribution. But hey, if I'm really the only one seeing the upsides in this things, then maybe it's not even worth it pushing the idea - you all might just dumb it down anyway, once it's up and running.
I hear alpha pups are not in much of a demand, though, nowadays.
We have added subforums at the request of users before; I understand the concept of making more subforums to let people create threads which match a new theme. However, that is not what you are asking for. You asked for a new forum where the theme would be "diverse topics". That's not a theme. That's basically an anti-theme. Not only that, the forum you speak of already exists, and we've pointed that out to you numerous times. What would be the point of having two forums which serve the exact same purpose, and whose names are effectively synonyms?
Y'know what you can do to prevent a thread from getting buried? Make it a great thread from the offset. Make it a thread which people *want* to comment in, and the thread will always be high up in the list. Also, just because the forum is called "Off Topic" doesn't mean the replies you get will be "distatasteful, offtopic and even downright stupid". There are rules in place to ensure that people don't do that, even in Off Topic threads. You still have to stay on topic in "Off Topic" threads, because the thread itself has a topic; the topic just doesn't belong in any other forum.
