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We needed an OOT forum to let the new posters in from FFXI and from the new games we are adding. Since most people didn't feel comfortable posting on the existing forum, we've added this one. Originally Illia and Pikko added it as an FFXi only OOT forum. I don't like that idea, as it means adding OOT forums for each game we cover. So I've come up with a new solution. The old OOT forum is now called Rants. This is the new OOT forum. Basically the hope is that you can converse about non-game subjects here and not get completely bashed by the old time posters, but if you want to step over to the other forum and bash heads with the existing gang there, you are still able to do so. Hopefully, we will have enough posters to let both forums thrive.

Edited, Sep 23rd 2007 4:59am by NixNot

Let me be the first long time poster to say that this will be the equivilent of the minor legues for flaming. Unless someone's going to moderate it heavily you're going to have the weaker flamers plying their trade here because of a percieved easier target rich enviornment.

Hopefully not.

Moebius, I know you find this hard to believe, but some people actually like to play nice. That doesn't make us wimps, that doesn't mean we can't take flaming. It just means that we choose not to put up with the type of attitudes over in the now Rant forum. Personally, I like this solution, and I'm sure the newcomers to the web site will as well.

Oh, and admins? Good job in your handling of the OMG thread and the OOT situation. You handled a difficult situation professionally and efficiently, and we appreciate all of your efforts.

/M

Playing nice really has nothing to do with it. Do a little looking and you will see that there is plenty of "playing nice" in the original OOT forum. There are people who flame indiscriminantly. There are people who rarely, if ever, flame. There are people who have heated discussions and people who completely ignore anything of significance. Posters of all shapes & sizes got along very well. If you didn't personally enjoy attitudes, you had the right to ignore them. Creating a new sugary sweet forum is a cop out solution indicative of, as I said, the complete emasculation of modern society. God forbid someone takes offense at something, let's design for the lowest common denominator.

It's welfare for gamers.

Edited, Thu Apr 29 11:42:31 2004 by Allakhazam

I'm perusing the Rant forums now and I see you make a good point. A couple of different solutions are being tried out for the FFXIers who want to play nice, be cliquish, or whatever you wish to term it as. I'm not sure how the new OOT forum will work out, but I'm pretty sure it isn't going to be a place for people to frolick and make daisy chains. Who would want that, anyways? When I visited the forum before the changes, it just felt like people were doing more flaming/trolling than ignoring. But, that was just my perception, and I could have been entirely wrong. I'm human, it happens.

Nice... now tell me how you did that and why I can't see it even with "Never Filter" ^^

Edited, Thu Apr 29 11:53:41 2004 by Meabh

/waves to Alla

Edited, Thu Apr 29 11:52:30 2004 by Meabh

Edited, Thu Apr 29 11:52:56 2004 by Meabh

Alla, This is the last post I will make directly referring to the idea of this solution. I will respect the fact that it was your decision to make.

So will my very name get me mod'ed out of OOT now?

I like flaming but it was never a reference to that... honest.

Yep, I hadn't thought of this. Might need to rename it?


And although I'm one of those who tends to play nice, I'll probably mostly stay in the Rants forum. Sometimes I like it rough, baby.

Mwahahahahahaha, you thought you could hide this new forum from the Empire, didn't you Alla. But now we will crush your little rebellion!

Yeah, this seems like the minors for the Asylum. By the way, I strongly encourage anybody to feel free to wander in there for a gander. Don't worry, platypi don't bite.