Should the following Threads be moved to the Shrapnel General Section

[PvK]

Personally, they don't really bother me. Apparently many Users are enjoying them, so unless many others are bothered, I'd tend to say leave them be.

Originally posted by primitive:
Moving the threads to the general forum will just kill them off.

Banning all threads about things that really matter from the SEIV forum is nothing less than censorship.

We all have free will and can skip those threads we don't want to read.

Moving the threads wouldn't be censoring them, but it would be trying to force people to change their forum habits, which as you say would have the effect that most people wouldn't see them. On the other hand, for the minority that doesn't follow the Space Empires forum, it'd actually increase the visible activity.

Perhaps a counter-suggestion would be to move the older off-topic threads to the general forum, to make the old topics here more relevant, and to give more content to the general forum.

Then again, the actual Posts in this forum tend to get SE-related Posts even in off-topic subjects, so they might be a little out of place in the General forum.

(Hmm, I must be avoiding getting my work done, if I'm writing this here!)

It's probably not really worth anyone's time to bother with them, and might bug people more than it would do any good, to move them.

PvK

[Fyron]

Moving them would be bad. There is no need to redundantly post why, but there is need to give support to move = bad.

Technically, they should all be removed.

Technically, no, they shouldn't. There is no rule written that says only se4 can be discussed in this forum.

[ March 25, 2003, 01:03: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Moving them would be bad. There is no need to redundantly post why, but there is need to give support to move = bad.

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Technically, they should all be removed.

Technically, no, they shouldn't. There is no rule written that says only se4 can be discussed in this forum.

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Technically yes. The subject is not SE4

EDIT But as I have said, I am all for letting them stay.

[ March 25, 2003, 01:14: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[Ed Kolis]

There are probably more people in the SE4 forum than all the others combined, so moving the threads anywhere else would probably just kill them off...

On the other hand, it might draw attention to the other forums...

[Thermodyne]

The threads should stay; one of them is almost the hottest topic on the forum. And to move them to another section of the forum would be like moving a headline story to the back pages of the paper. Passive censorship is what this is called. Just because a thread does not turn out the way people wanted or intended is no reason to passively censor it. Moderators should not censor except when forced to do so in defense of the forum, and members should never be allowed to censor by polling the membership.

[Askan Nightbringer]

Well if the forum becomes filled with them then there's a problem and I'de vote to move. Its not about censorship, the main purpose of the forum is so people can learn about the game SE4. If I was a newbie and came here to find there are 65 off topic discussions about anything from solar activity to what toothpaste do you use I'de find the forum useless.

Having multiple topics for essesntially the same subject is a waste thou.

Askan

[Zarix]

I read the off topic threads occasionally. I don't mind them being here, but I would like that all of them had OT written in the topic. Most threads have but I really think that the ones that don't should be renamed.