[spoon]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
There is some concern from Shrapnel that to many OT topics will drive away newcomers to the extend that they will not join the community.

Why? Have there been complaints? The ratio of OT to On Topic Posts doesn't seem too horrible to me. And most of the OT Posts are clearly labeled, so newcomers can easily avoid them if they are annoyed by them. I can't help but think Shrapnel is jumping at the sound of the wind here. If it is really a problem, maybe they should just break the forum into two seperate forums. One for Game Discussions, the other for OT discussions. (Which, again, IMO would be over-reacting to a problem that doesn't exist...)

Originally posted by Mephisto:

To this end I would like to ask all of you to maybe cut the amount of OT threads present on the top of the board down a bit - just post your OT question in one of the other OT thread.

This seems like a bad idea to me. With seperate thread names, it is much easier to avoid topics that people find objectionable. So by reducing the ratio of OT threads you increase the ratio of people getting upset by OT content (if such people exist in our community )

Originally posted by Mephisto:

Thanks for your attention!

Thanks for posting!

[ May 29, 2004, 14:05: Message edited by: spoon ]