So few posters posting.Is it because all moved to political forum?
How to make OT feel alive again in current situation?
Well?
So few posters posting.Is it because all moved to political forum?
How to make OT feel alive again in current situation?
Well?
So few posters posting.Is it because all moved to political forum?
How to make OT feel alive again in current situation?
Well?
Better a ghost town than a radioactive dumpster fire. Again, I keep saying we should merge with Sports Bar.
Yeah, it's @madrocketeer's fault.
Yup. Still zero regrets.
I'm not even sure why this place has a political board. It's a gaming forum which is generally hostile enough with console wars let along the endless negativity which is part and parcel with political discussions.
I think it’s okay, usually some decent discussions popping up. Forums in general aren’t as busy anymore thanks to all the new forms of social media.
I actually was against the Political Gamers Board when it was first created but I have come around to the other side, I think it was the right decision. The toxicity observed over there is better to contain it by itself. Online political discourse seems to contaminate everything it touches and we were beginning to see that by the end of the last Presidential election over here in OT.
To lift OT I agree the Sports Board should be folded and merge with OT. If OT can't survive without video games and politics then perhaps that should be the end of it. Plenty of stuff to talk about outside those 2 topics.
I actually was against the Political Gamers Board when it was first created but I have come around to the other side, I think it was the right decision. The toxicity observed over there is better to contain it by itself. Online political discourse seems to contaminate everything it touches and we were beginning to see that by the end of the last Presidential election over here in OT.
To lift OT I agree the Sports Board should be folded and merge with OT. If OT can't survive without video games and politics then perhaps that should be the end of it. Plenty of stuff to talk about outside those 2 topics.
I'm still not somewhat sold if creating PG was the right call but I always thought by talking anything here on OT including politics would generate that OT itself isn't active and OT was king on GS as far as active forums goes. But however, I barely talk about politics myself, but I had no idea people here really love politics stuff, I guess users would rather talk about it if they have their own forum it seems.
Sports Bar is indeed pitiful and the NFL has already started, not a single activity talking about it exist over at Sports Bar.
I actually was against the Political Gamers Board when it was first created but I have come around to the other side, I think it was the right decision. The toxicity observed over there is better to contain it by itself. Online political discourse seems to contaminate everything it touches and we were beginning to see that by the end of the last Presidential election over here in OT.
To lift OT I agree the Sports Board should be folded and merge with OT. If OT can't survive without video games and politics then perhaps that should be the end of it. Plenty of stuff to talk about outside those 2 topics.
I'm still not somewhat sold if creating PG was the right call but I always thought by talking anything here on OT including politics would generate that OT itself isn't active and OT was king on GS as far as active forums goes. But however, I barely talk about politics myself, but I had no idea people here really love politics stuff, I guess users would rather talk about it if they have their own forum it seems.
Sports Bar is indeed pitiful and the NFL has already started, not a single activity talking about it exist over at Sports Bar.
Can't you mods remove sports bar?
@SOedipus: It keeps the hypocritical trolls out of here. Go look at the political gamers forum, good god it’s a mess.
I actually was against the Political Gamers Board when it was first created but I have come around to the other side, I think it was the right decision. The toxicity observed over there is better to contain it by itself. Online political discourse seems to contaminate everything it touches and we were beginning to see that by the end of the last Presidential election over here in OT.
To lift OT I agree the Sports Board should be folded and merge with OT. If OT can't survive without video games and politics then perhaps that should be the end of it. Plenty of stuff to talk about outside those 2 topics.
I was in favor of the idea of PG back in the day. Not because I thought we needed a place for that discussion, but because I really wanted it out of here. OT was a lot more active before, but that's because it basically already was PG and what PG is has gone downhill significantly from that already low bar.
It's not exactly brimming with activity these days. Creating the Political Gamers board was a mistake, seeing as it's more active than OT...
@madrocketeer Yeah the Sports Bar has no reason to exist on its own. The last post was 7 days ago lol.
Blame Trump. OT was PG
Gamespot should bring back After Hours? I think that's what it was called? You should have to be over 18 years of age to read/post. It used to have interesting reading and funny stories/pictures.
@girlusocrazy: Not sure. The blogs and forums are there and reviews. But it doesn’t work well on a phone.
@SOedipus: It keeps the hypocritical trolls out of here. Go look at the political gamers forum, good god it’s a mess.
That's pretty much what OT was like..well not exactly. It wasn't as toxic as PG but it could get bad. Even in the non-political threads there was more traffic because there were more users in the OT board. And those religious, philosophical, political threads were glorious. PG is pretty much orange-man-bad threads. There's so much going on in the world and those threads will drown out everything else non-T related. And yeah, I used to frequent there quite a bit but not so much now. It's pretty much the same users saying the same thing over and over again.
@SOedipus: It keeps the hypocritical trolls out of here. Go look at the political gamers forum, good god it’s a mess.
That's pretty much what OT was like..well not exactly. It wasn't as toxic as PG but it could get bad. Even in the non-political threads there was more traffic because there were more users in the OT board. And those religious, philosophical, political threads were glorious. PG is pretty much orange-man-bad threads. There's so much going on in the world and those threads will drown out everything else non-T related. And yeah, I used to frequent there quite a bit but not so much now. It's pretty much the same users saying the same thing over and over again.
OT could be bad at times, however lots of threads never gave people a chance to be so against each others as PG does.
@SOedipus: It keeps the hypocritical trolls out of here. Go look at the political gamers forum, good god it’s a mess.
That's pretty much what OT was like..well not exactly. It wasn't as toxic as PG but it could get bad. Even in the non-political threads there was more traffic because there were more users in the OT board. And those religious, philosophical, political threads were glorious. PG is pretty much orange-man-bad threads. There's so much going on in the world and those threads will drown out everything else non-T related. And yeah, I used to frequent there quite a bit but not so much now. It's pretty much the same users saying the same thing over and over again.
OT could be bad at times, however lots of threads never gave people a chance to be so against each others as PG does.
I admit, I do miss doing those box office movie threads I do every Sunday and I would do it again like right now but once covid-19 hit, so did the movie industry and box office are on hold until further notice. I still love coming here to OT but I been going to SW alot.
What does everybody think about bringing forum games to OT. Is that allowed? Keeps me coming back to GOG.
What does everybody think about bringing forum games to OT. Is that allowed? Keeps me coming back to GOG.
The Game Lounge outside of OT is still around, you can use that to discuss about games and even GoG.
I'm talking about forum games.
What does everybody think about bringing forum games to OT. Is that allowed? Keeps me coming back to GOG.
The Game Lounge outside of OT is still around, you can use that to discuss about games and even GoG.
Forum Games, as in posting games.
It died when GS changed its entire website.
Eh lots of forums have died. Social media drew lots of people away from forums.
I wish some users would return. They did not post a lot, but their posts was always interesting to read. Can't remember if he called himself Pianist or M0zart here.
It died when GS changed its entire website.
Eh lots of forums have died. Social media drew lots of people away from forums.
I wish some users would return. They did not post a lot, but their posts was always interesting to read. Can't remember if he called himself Pianist or M0zart here.
I'd argue it's the toxic environment which draws people away from here. The system wars is just a cesspool of negativity and trolling.
It's pretty much dead. Splitting off political discussions because some posters wanted OT to be a safe space. Good call.
It died when GS changed its entire website.
Eh lots of forums have died. Social media drew lots of people away from forums.
I wish some users would return. They did not post a lot, but their posts was always interesting to read. Can't remember if he called himself Pianist or M0zart here.
Two different people.
It died when GS changed its entire website.
Eh lots of forums have died. Social media drew lots of people away from forums.
I wish some users would return. They did not post a lot, but their posts was always interesting to read. Can't remember if he called himself Pianist or M0zart here.
Two different people.
I know, and I can't remember which one it was.
Two different people.
I know, and I can't remember which one it was.
Mozart was a mod. I think you're probably thinking of Pianist though.......
It's pretty much dead. Splitting off political discussions because some posters wanted OT to be a safe space. Good call.
Safe/Toxic
It's pretty much dead. Splitting off political discussions because some posters wanted OT to be a safe space. Good call.
Safe/Toxic
I don't know. If you didn't split it off you would have more people here to generate more conversations about varying topics. As it is........it's dead.
@LJS9502_basic: If you value activity above all else, fair enough.
Not for me, still take a limited but chill community over a barrage of bile.
@LJS9502_basic: If you value activity above all else, fair enough.
Not for me, still take a limited but chill community over a barrage of bile.
You must be new to OT.
@LJS9502_basic: If you value activity above all else, fair enough.
Not for me, still take a limited but chill community over a barrage of bile.
You must be new to OT.
No I've been here since 2013, we've been replying to each other for years.
It's a relatively nice group of people. Moderators are good as well compared to other forums.
Maybe we've just had different experiences but by and large it's been positive on this end.
No I've been here since 2013, we've been replying to each other for years.
It's a relatively nice group of people. Moderators are good as well compared to other forums.
Maybe we've just had different experiences but by and large it's been positive on this end.
LOL that's kind of new. There were nasty threads back in the day.
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