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ViolentDove:
I also agree with Sox, but I've never said so because well, it's not really my place to comment or criticise how people want to run their own forum. It's just my personal opinion that off-topic posts can easily engender more interesting discussion than the on-topic ones, and the flow of discussion is more natural if off-topic tangents are allowed. I also think bad threads generally sort themselves out, if there's no interest in the thread or nothing to say beyond "Hey guys, shit thread here" then it'll disappear.

fatty:
In my opinion, a forum with very few discussion threads can be reduced to a few stickied threads. Instead of making new threads about every movie that recently came out, have one large thread so there is more overlap and more posts. A D&D thread or WOW thread can cover most of the things in this subject, instead of it being spread over 10 threads.
I will admit I don't read the tech forum, so I can't say exactly how it would pan out. But basing my ideas on the Art/Craft threads, most of them don't fill one page of discussion. Instead of everyone starting a new thread when they have an idea, if there is a thread "post your own work here" and "post ideas and art news here" it would be much more condensed and interesting.

I also am not that satisfied with the idea of certain genres being in sub-fora and the rest being designated in 'off-topic'. After all, the main threads in off-topic could cover a range of things that could fit in other fora. News could be in discussion, fashion could be in art/craft, internet things could be in the tech forum.
Basically, I am saying there are limitless numbers of sub-fora we could divide our threads into. One of the main reasons for posting here would be to get more posts and more traffic. In light of this, why not bring more of the topics into the 'off-topic' area, instead of shunting everything off to dusty sub-fora.

RallyMonkey:
I disagree with the notion that locking crappy threads is bad because it just stops the topic from ever becoming interesting. When there is an obviously ridiculous thread, it needs to be closed as soon as possible, we know we all get off on telling people how stupid they are, or how they should lurk more, and if a thread doesn't get locked, it will just keep getting bumped up to the top with people explaining to the topic creator how wrong they are.

fatty:
I agree with locking crappy threads as go downhill, I don't see a problem with it. I see a problem with being nazi about locking threads when there aren't a great many 'good' threads for newbs to take as examples.

Inlander:
I don't know how fair the criticisms in this thread of mod action are, to be honest. Certainly, when I first joined the forum all those years ago off-topic threads were locked pretty much straight away, but I don't think the mods or admins are particularly lock-happy these days. Certainly I know I try to use locking as a last-resort, and have on more than one occasion encouraged people to just ignore a thread if they want it to die.

A quick glance at the two most recent pages of "I Like HURRRR" shows 7 locked threads (not counting ones that appear locked because the thread was moved to a more appropriate sub-forum). That's 7 threads locked out of 100 threads total. That's not excessive, is it? And I think if you look you'll find that none of them was locked frivolously.

With regards to threads going "off-topic", I'm not inclined to let people pour shit all over a thread if they don't like it (which is the most common means by which threads go off-topic in this forum) because it usually amounts to a group of old hands bullying a new kid who made a bad thread 'cause he or she didn't know any better, and to be perfectly honest that's not the kind of forum I want this to be. It wasn't mean and cliquey when I joined, and damned if I'm going to stand by and let it become that now. For a recent example, take a look at this thread. It was dead for ages, then someone fairly new to the forum revived it, and people got pissy at him. I was faced with three choices: ignore it, lock it, or nudge people back on-topic. The first wasn't an option for the reason I've just outlined above, the second was a dead-end, so I opted for the third, and now the thread's back up and running and on-topic. The off-topic in this instance, and, I think, in most instances, wasn't amusing banter or interesting debate. It was people hurling insults at each other and jumping on the "make fun of the new kid" bandwagon.

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