casual fridays

[animepornstar]

off-topic has recently become rather dull and some of our most interesting posters have left us. to make off-topic more interesting again i have come up with an proposal.

how about giving the mods a little bit rest and and lighten up the off-topic rules at fridays? chatting, polls about poop, completely pointless posts and threads, flaming, etc would be allow while racism, flooding, porn, ect would still be forbidden. what do you think?

i think it would create a more relaxed atmosphere in off-topic and maybe we could get some of our old posters back. now you might think that the flaming would create a lot of hard feelings, but as long everyone knows it's friday and that it's just light hearted i think it could be ok.

 

[Mikoyan]

I agree with you. This may be a good way to loosen up the tense OT forum...

 

[Ohwell]

Casual Friday is never a bad thing.

 

[Elden]

Originally posted by animepornstar
off-topic has recently become rather dull and some of our most interesting posters have left us. to make off-topic more interesting again i have come up with an proposal.

how about giving the mods a little bit rest and and lighten up the off-topic rules at fridays? chatting, polls about poop, completely pointless posts and threads, flaming, etc would be allow while racism, flooding, porn, ect would still be forbidden. what do you think?

i think it would create a more relaxed atmosphere in off-topic and maybe we could get some of our old posters back. now you might think that the flaming would create a lot of hard feelings, but as long everyone knows it's friday and that it's just light hearted i think it could be ok.

Due to different time zones it wouldn't work. - I think a seperate, unmoderated, forum would be better.

 

[D' Artagnan]

Before mods answer you with a big NO ! I would just like to point out the bad effects this could have.
And what do you mean by lighten up the rules ? Allowing nationality bashing, insults etc. ?
IMHO, it's not a good idea and will provoke opposite effects : people would hate each other.

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by Elden


Due to different time zones it wouldn't work. - I think a seperate, unmoderated, forum would be better.

Yes i agree, we have the coliseum, lets have the arena. The ultimate discusion forum, this forum can be restricted to those who agrre to discuss without rule so the risk are well know, so the kid or sensitive poeple may avoid it.

Only evident porn spaming or racism should be forbiden.

 

[Padma]

Here we go again. :sigh:

"Casual Fridays" won't happen.

"The arena" idea was tried a couple years ago, and proved unmanageable.

Why is it so hard to post within the rules?

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

I have a better idea, much more entertaining. Remove all policies and eithics from moderators on Fridays and allow them full reign to be arbitrary, capricious. devious, and cruel.
:vampire:

 

[Padma]

Ooooh, I like the sound of that!

 

[Eklektikos]

And this would be different from usual in what way?

 

[animepornstar]

yeah, i wonder about that too.

anyway, take a look at off-topic. at least 90 per cent of the threads are about news or debates on heavy issues where posters ignore the points of the side. does it have to be that way?

i remember when off-topic was a place where people with different backgrounds and personality conversed, showed interest in the knowledge of other posters and had a great time. what happened to that nice forum?

 

[SirJethro]

If you think OT is boring, post something interesting. The rules are completely reasonable and don't prevent ANYTHING that most of us are here to participate in.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Originally posted by animepornstar
yeah, i wonder about that too.

anyway, take a look at off-topic. at least 90 per cent of the threads are about news or debates on heavy issues where posters ignore the points of the side. does it have to be that way?

i remember when off-topic was a place where people with different backgrounds and personality conversed, showed interest in the knowledge of other posters and had a great time. what happened to that nice forum?

Ah, that forum was too weak, survival of the fittest I'm afraid

I think off-topic at the moment is an odourless gas, with all that implies

 

[Yoda Power]

maybe if we had a "free" forum, the moderators could be "free" to. They could bann or edit anyone who post in that forum if they disagreed with them.

 

[Zcylen]

the arena forum! wow! and we would be gladiators instead of members, fight to death,
I woudnt enter there too risky

 

[D' Artagnan]

Originally posted by animepornstar
yeah, i wonder about that too.

anyway, take a look at off-topic. at least 90 per cent of the threads are about news or debates on heavy issues where posters ignore the points of the side. does it have to be that way?

i remember when off-topic was a place where people with different backgrounds and personality conversed, showed interest in the knowledge of other posters and had a great time. what happened to that nice forum?

It will all disappear once the war ends.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Zcylen
the arena forum! wow! and we would be gladiators instead of members, fight to death,
I woudnt enter there too risky

So let's see, we already have a Colosseum, but when we think of adding an arena you think of the members becoming gladiators?

And with the casual Friday idea, what would happen the next day? Would any threads that were created on Friday that bent the rules a little (and therefore wouldn't be acceptable on other days) be closed?

 

[Archer 007]

This idea is totally unreasonable. All i see is the Demogame RPG all over again.

 

[Silverflame]

Originally posted by D' Artagnan


It will all disappear once the war ends.

Ill agree with that. The war is tensing everyone up, so OT may not be like it once was. Probably by the time the fightings done people will relax a bit and stop their flames, so the mods' orders will not seem so strict.

 

[Furry Spatula]

so why is it being called casual friday? Shouldn't it be called the North American time zones Friday night spam fest? It isn't a good idea, I'm sorry. I'm not a mod but i can't see this working well at all. A "better" idea would be making a seperate forum which is unlocked every friday. But still thats not a good idea as it will be a spam fest and people will just get in trouble. What material won't be allowed.

But a quick question, or rather statement, I thought the forum is usually a little dull as people are doing other stuff on friday's. Maybe that's why its emptier on weekend nights.