05-22-2006, 02:01 AM
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Duly noted, now I shall throw that in my outbox and send it off to someone who cares.
Seriously, I see your point. But if life was about work, what your saying is that work is all we should be allowed to talk about. If what makes a community is talk about one thing and that one thing only, it would be mighty boring. You'd leave, trust me. This is part of what makes a resource forum so popular - it's COMMUNITY. This off-topic stuff is what keeps us together, alongside QB/FB. It's what makes a community tick. Also we learn about other people, and their countries, etc etc...
I have to admit there are quite a lot of off-topic threads happening, especially of late. Yes, this is a programming site. Perhaps there should be more coding going on behind the scenes. Rest assured, those people "sitting on their fat asses all day" are actually behind a computer, probably coding 99.9% of the time there. The other 0.1% of the time they may checking their email or answering one of the "too many off-topic posts". Is that not what the "General / Debate" forum is all about? Is it for this purpose that they were created? Yes.
I do not moderate these forums, I do not run this site. I have not been here at this site for much more than a year. But if you hang around long enough, you will see as much as I do that this really isn't a problem. I don't want to sound out of line here, but I think perhaps you should sit back and wait a little longer before making assumptions.
That is all, and thank you for your feedback.
Duly noted, now I shall throw that in my outbox and send it off to someone who cares.
Seriously, I see your point. But if life was about work, what your saying is that work is all we should be allowed to talk about. If what makes a community is talk about one thing and that one thing only, it would be mighty boring. You'd leave, trust me. This is part of what makes a resource forum so popular - it's COMMUNITY. This off-topic stuff is what keeps us together, alongside QB/FB. It's what makes a community tick. Also we learn about other people, and their countries, etc etc...
I have to admit there are quite a lot of off-topic threads happening, especially of late. Yes, this is a programming site. Perhaps there should be more coding going on behind the scenes. Rest assured, those people "sitting on their fat asses all day" are actually behind a computer, probably coding 99.9% of the time there. The other 0.1% of the time they may checking their email or answering one of the "too many off-topic posts". Is that not what the "General / Debate" forum is all about? Is it for this purpose that they were created? Yes.
I do not moderate these forums, I do not run this site. I have not been here at this site for much more than a year. But if you hang around long enough, you will see as much as I do that this really isn't a problem. I don't want to sound out of line here, but I think perhaps you should sit back and wait a little longer before making assumptions.
That is all, and thank you for your feedback.
Screwing with your reality since 1998.