Threads moved from Off-Topical & other stupidity

[The Brain]

<a href=http://board.yourmomsbox.net/viewthread.php?tid=928>This has been discussed before.</a> And as far as I know, no answer was reached then, and it still really hasn't been reached now.

I, for one, have always felt that OT (either here or back on OA.com) was designed for <b>all</b> the topics and threads that did not fall directly into the specified categories of Movies/Music, Wrestling, Tech Stuff, etc.

Wanted to discuss favorite drinks? The benefits of marijuana? Relationships? Jokes? Chat? Do it in OT.

The hodge-podge nature of it is what made people hang out in there so much; there is something for everyone.

Now, all of those topics I named above pretty much have their own seperate forums... but do they really require them?

Case in point, in the Pub, <a href=http://board.yourmomsbox.net/viewthread.php?tid=989>the last active thread</a> was two days ago (as of 7/13), has 9 posts, but the first three are all by the thread's creator. Granted, I think the idea of a forum where drunken members can feebly try to type coherent stuff is funny, but it doesn't dismiss the fact you're still relying on folks under the influence to try and remember which forum to post in (much less hoping they can think straight enough to log in and do so).

And as far as the complaints that everything turns into a chat thread... well, yeah, that's sort of how conversations work. Do you like to sit around with your friends watching a football game and do nothing but talk about the football game? Or do you find that your discussion about what's happening in front of you take tangents into all sorts of varying topics, occasionally returning to the main focus (in this case, the game), before divurging again?

Folks argue that the game threads are a problem because even though they get a lot of replies, only the minute few are actually posting in them. But in the so-called "normal" threads,a topic is brought up... and a minute few with any knowledge of the subject discuss it, have their say, and then the thread dies (unless it's carried on by repeated "Yeah, I agree" or "disagree" posts which add nothing to the discourse). Some may the game threads are "mindless", but they require more creativity than many of the threads which litter all of the forums.