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Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
OT posts are like weeds, they choke out garden that is a forum. The big problem with them is that if you don't pull them up they multiply and the signal to noise ratio drops. Just look at what's happened in the last week- people see OT posts and then post their own. I've seen many a forum become unusable for what it was intended. There are LOTS of places to discuss TV, cooking, and politics...this is not one of them. Some people enjoy talking about TV, some people will jaw all day about cooking, and half the people on the internet will argue politics with you seven days a week. I don't, I come here to talk about dominions and if I want random noise the internet can supply as much of it as I can stomach. I'm hardly a forum nazi, and am not asking for a laser beam focus, but if you're prefacing a post with "OT:" because it has absolutely nothing to do with Dominions please, please go put it in a place where people who want to discuss that are. Keep in mind it has a ripple effect on what others post, and OT posts increase the noise that many people don't care about.
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
man i don't even click on the OT posts.
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May 18th, 2007, 12:50 PM
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
Good luck with that if OT posts are a regular occurance and people aren't consistent about putting "OT" in the title. Like I said, the worst thing about OT posts is they encourage others to post OT posts... 
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
I'm going to take this request as carte blanche to kick any existing OT threads, as well as any future ones, right into an appropriate subforum, which would be the Intel Bar & Grill one here for most, Shrapnel General for others. You can go look for them there.
The comments about S/N ratio are dead on target and we already have a number of stickies at the top of the forum so that we do not need any more things that bump actual Dom3-related threads downward.
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May 18th, 2007, 12:58 PM
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
The following OT threads have been moved to the Intel Bar & Grill forum: - Cooking
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- Freelords
- Favorite TV Shows
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May 18th, 2007, 01:20 PM
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
Thanks Edi, we all appreciate the tireless work you do, I for one will make sure it's not thankless. 
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Re: Please, oh please, stop blatantly OT posts
OT posts ARE like weeds. Im not fanatical about doing weeding. An occasional one isnt a big deal but Im not going to allow them to take over either.
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