Dear Asylum,Follow

Because the Asylum's political debate trend and the OoT's "let's be random and have fun together, while sometimes talking about real things" trend don't mesh well together? I tried my luck at the Asylum maybe... 5 years ago? It didn't go so well. So I sucked it up, than began my OoT lurking. I just don't fit in the Asylum because I hate politics, economics, religion and similar stuff. The OoT was more of my thing, since it's like a group of friends having lunch together, with conversations ranging from apples to zoophiles.

Both forums have different dynamics, and mixing them together wouldn't work at all. My personal suggestion was to quit moderating the Asylum and the OoT, but instead create an hypermoderated forum for sensitive forum virgins that can't handle the Internet and "mean" people and where you can't post if you have over 1000 posts.

That would actually be false. Thanks.

And then the Asylum will fuss because we've overrun the place, yadda yadda.

To be fair there was about 2 years in there, where if I made a post it would be nuked.

But we won't run to admins.

What if I add... A CIGAR? HMMMMMM?

Holy ****, I just spit soda everywhere.

Too bad you have to discuss those in =5. Maybe you'll get 3-5 responses in a week's time.

However, the 900000th post about Senjiow beating his kids? Still funny.

Yeah, I never really actually found the "Senji's a child-beater" thing to be funny until this whole shenanigan. I'll probably cease being amused by it in another hour or so.

The larger problem with merging the forums is that the threads that dominate the Asylum in its current state will likely be pushed to the bottom or even off the first page. Most of the OoTers who would weigh in on the threads generally already post in the Asylum. You're not going to generate that much more discussion on them. If you add the daily OoT "discussion" on top of that, the generally slower Asylum threads may just fall by the wayside.

Or Mr Winky's black ops team. Magnificence sounds better though.

Yes, instead of 100+ posts a day you might get 20 from me.

Well. Here's my take on it. I suspect that certain types of posts occur in the OOT, and others in the asylum (such as said lolcats vs politics comparison), pretty much exactly because the folks posting in the asylum tend to talk politics and the folks in the OOT maybe talk lolcats (or whatever).

It's not like people can't skip over threads they aren't interested in. And yes, while I suppose there are some ****-retentive folks in the asylum (and in the OOT for that matter), who'll make a point of going into a thread on a subject they aren't interested in and expressing just how dumb and uninteresting that thread is, I suspect they'd be in the minority. Or at least the novelty would tend to wear off pretty quick.


It's not like there's ever been a magical wall preventing the big bad asylum posters from going into the OOT and tossing their condescending disapproval over the content and theme of the posts or anything. Yet, magically, the universe has managed to maintain order, the planet hasn't been knocked off it's alignment, and dogs and cats aren't sleeping together (too much). It's all pretty much in everyone's heads IMO. Post what you want in the threads you are interested in. Some of us like politics. Some of us are more interested in jokes. Some like lolcats. Some people juggle geese. Who can say? I'm just suggesting that if the problem is with some OOT posters getting a bit out of hand, maybe the correct solution is for them to post their out of hand stuff in the asylum and see how things go.


The asylum has never been segregated from the OOT based on theme. Just rating...