I can only give my own experience - I really like the idea of a place here at MR to discuss non-book-related (and non-P&R) things with other book lovers, but honestly I do find the Lounge too silly so I usually just don't bother. I'm not saying it's bad that it's silly and I have (even if rarely) posted in some of the silly threads for fun so I understand their appeal. But there it is. So many of those threads do give that forum a certain silly atmosphere even if there are more serious threads mixed in (I think 'serious' might be too strong a description; more like 'regular discussion' or 'just not completely silly, just for fun and/or games').
I'm not advocating splitting the forum in two per se because I'm so used to my MR routine now that I'm not sure that I personally would get into using any Lounge forum with less silly threads, and alternately at some point the whim may take me to start participating in the Lounge forum more as is regardless.
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Originally Posted by Nate the great
This was tried once, a few years back. The result was so toxic that the new forum was deleted.
The problem then was that the "serious" folks looked down on anyone who participated in the silliness, and that sneering attitude did not lead to peace when the loung was sundered in two.
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I must have missed this or it was before my time. Admittedly, I don't look at the Lounge often. I understand you're saying there were 'sneerers' and people looking down on others, but I'm still not quite understanding what happened that caused the forums to be merged together again. Are you saying people in the more serious forum were posting constantly about how much better they were than posters in the other forum?