07-13-2003, 06:51 PM
I know shit about shit. I've never been a mod, nor do I ever wish to be. It would spoil the fun for me and become work as opposed to play.
However being that it's been acknowledged that it's about the members, and I'm one and have been on many, I'm going to throw out my 2 Canadian cents here. Please do not take offense.
If a new member joins, and looks for a way to "fit in", or get with the program, off-topical is always the place. Generic. If your off-topical is dead, your new members will be listed but never play. *denote another board with 5000 members and 10 that post*
If your regular "bored chatters" (I'm hurt FTL), keep the off-topical active with games and silly yet witty banter, I see nothing but a successful forum.
My initial reaction, albeit a little affected by pms, was to quite simply only ever try to move Silera's forum and watch Off-Topical wither and die, as it will, I believe, if you continue to take active and entertaining threads from this forum.
So, silly or not, ymb's moved some very effective threads (effective only ever equals one that moves, end of fucking story) out of one of the most critical forums.
What has been accomplished is that the post-whores, that are the life-blood of the board, no longer feel comfortable nor welcome to banter back and forth in the most comfortable forum, (or hypothetically the most) on the whole board.
And for the record I'm still blown away by the fact that a MODERATOR, on an OPIE AND ANTHONY MESSAGEBOARD, has outright put into written text that they didn't even fucking like them. Ponderous, f-ing ponderous.
However being that it's been acknowledged that it's about the members, and I'm one and have been on many, I'm going to throw out my 2 Canadian cents here. Please do not take offense.
If a new member joins, and looks for a way to "fit in", or get with the program, off-topical is always the place. Generic. If your off-topical is dead, your new members will be listed but never play. *denote another board with 5000 members and 10 that post*
If your regular "bored chatters" (I'm hurt FTL), keep the off-topical active with games and silly yet witty banter, I see nothing but a successful forum.
My initial reaction, albeit a little affected by pms, was to quite simply only ever try to move Silera's forum and watch Off-Topical wither and die, as it will, I believe, if you continue to take active and entertaining threads from this forum.
So, silly or not, ymb's moved some very effective threads (effective only ever equals one that moves, end of fucking story) out of one of the most critical forums.
What has been accomplished is that the post-whores, that are the life-blood of the board, no longer feel comfortable nor welcome to banter back and forth in the most comfortable forum, (or hypothetically the most) on the whole board.
And for the record I'm still blown away by the fact that a MODERATOR, on an OPIE AND ANTHONY MESSAGEBOARD, has outright put into written text that they didn't even fucking like them. Ponderous, f-ing ponderous.
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