Off Topic forums are getting cluttered

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 4:55 am

jbone wrote:
kthulhu wrote:The off-topic forums are intended for the masses to post whatever the hell they feel like.
Um, no.

"Way Off-Topic" is for the masses to post whatever the Hells they feel like. (Examples: MY SPLEEN IS YELLOW! Anyone pee yet tonight?)

"Off-Topic" is meant for things that don't fall into the general AMV topics, but which are on at least somewhat fo a similar track. (Examples: Anyone see that new movie? What type of printer should I buy? When's the next Star Trek convention?)

If both forums were intended to be the same thing, then there would be one forum and not two.

Then let there be one forum instead of two! Seriously, no one is forcing anyone to go to the off-topic threads. So long as the general AMV forums aren't getting cluttered with junk, who cares how much stuff gets piled up in there? Phade maybe, and he can delete old/dead threads to save disk space and bandwidth if he wishes.

As for not enough mod material, what I mean is, if people want the off-topic threads to be policed more, it'll probably take more mods to do so and do it quickly. I can't think of many people on the site who would be willing to do so or up to the task.

And I KNOW we have mods. Read above.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 9:39 am

kthulhu wrote: Then let there be one forum instead of two! Seriously, no one is forcing anyone to go to the off-topic threads. So long as the general AMV forums aren't getting cluttered with junk, who cares how much stuff gets piled up in there?

What if I wantt o ask the people _here_ about their opinions on, say, Itanium-2 vs. Opteron, but I don't want the thread spammed to Hells without anyone ever looking at the thread's intent?

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:08 pm

Make a new hardware forum in either the AMV or Video section, then. It'd still be relevant to the site's subject. Or pick some more mods out of the general site populace so you have 24/7 coverage of the forums.

What's your solution to the off-topic forums?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:13 pm

kthulhu wrote:What's your solution to the off-topic forums?

"Nuke the site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure"

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:32 pm

Well sure, that'd do the trick, but isn't it a bit overkill?

Seriously, if it's that aggravating, I'd like to read a solution. So far all I read from these posts is a bunch of whining and rhetoric. "People are making way off-topic threads in the off-topic forums and it annoys me!" "The off-topic forums are not for crap, they're for printer opinions and movie discussions!", etcetera etcetera.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 6:43 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
kthulhu wrote:What's your solution to the off-topic forums?
"Nuke the site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure"

"Game over man...game over.

"

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 12:46 am

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:"Nuke the site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure"

No no... Nuke the users from orbit. Well, certain ones, anyway...

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 12:59 am

No don't just make one off topic forum. Imagine combining Off-Topic and Way Off-Topic. For those of us who do read the threads it would take forever to filter out the new ones. Sometimes, for me at least, the new threads would cover the entire page or maybe more. That'd be just freakin' crazy.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 1:03 am

I've stopped reading the "off-topic" forums entirely. It's utterly impossible to find anything useless in either, and it's a waste of time.

Those forums need a dedicated moderator - someone who has the power to suspend a user's privilege from posting in each individual forum, in case someone like Buckethead fills an Off-Topic forum about computer hard drives with pictures of his pet horse, etc.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Fri Aug 16, 2002 2:33 am

I was going to mention this, but I didn't think it would be proper. Since I spend most of my time in the off-topic forums, I'd be willing to moderate just them. Maybe I'll start a campaign...yes, yes...get votes, as it were, behind me and ask Phade nicely.

Why not?......