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Simons Mith
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Change description of OffTopic forum?

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Current description of Off-Topic is:

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It is an off-topic forum. If you can't figure out what that is, then you're the perfect person to post here!
Maybe change it to:

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The off-topic forum is for posts that may be of interest to Wesnoth forum-goers, but which have no relevance to the Wesnoth game.
The current description subtly encourages nonsense and foolery; the proposed replacement is merely neutral, if not positively dull. There is a small risk that it might make Off-Topic into a 'dumping ground' for off-topic posts moved from elsewhere (no great loss, I suspect) but a more neutral description removes the present implication that absolutely anything, no matter how asinine, is fair game for Off-Topic.
 
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Re: Change description of OffTopic forum?

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Simons Mith wrote:The current description subtly encourages nonsense and foolery; the proposed replacement is merely neutral, if not positively dull. There is a small risk that it might make Off-Topic into a 'dumping ground' for off-topic posts moved from elsewhere (no great loss, I suspect) but a more neutral description removes the present implication that absolutely anything, no matter how asinine, is fair game for Off-Topic.
I have plans to “change some things” in Off-Topic including its name and description. None of those plans will be disclosed at the moment, however.
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Re: Change description of OffTopic forum?

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shadowmaster wrote:
Simons Mith wrote:The current description subtly encourages nonsense and foolery; the proposed replacement is merely neutral, if not positively dull. There is a small risk that it might make Off-Topic into a 'dumping ground' for off-topic posts moved from elsewhere (no great loss, I suspect) but a more neutral description removes the present implication that absolutely anything, no matter how asinine, is fair game for Off-Topic.
I have plans to “change some things” in Off-Topic including its name and description. None of those plans will be disclosed at the moment, however.
I invoke the surrender thing...
or something.
...apparenly we can't go with it or something.
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Re: Change description of OffTopic forum?

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let's go and spam it before it's too late!

just kidding
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
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