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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We seriously need a forum section for posts that do not exactly fit anyplace else and the lounge is not it. The lounge has been taken over by too much sillyness to make people try to wade through it to find posts that are not silly. We need to seperate the silly from the not silly. Some people may not want to wade through the silly and the not silly posts will just get lost. So can we have a forum section that's not the lounge for posts that are not meant to be silly? Either that or we create a new forum section just for the silly and move all the posts there and then those that do not want them can easily ignore it.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm not asking for completely serious posts. Just a place where the pots do not start out as silly.
The labels don't help at all. If we want to not have the silly posts in the new message list, we also will have to lose the rest of the post from the new list. Threads that are meant to be silly from the start would still have a place to be. Threads that are not meant to be silly would be someplace else. That's all. I said nothing about serious. You are reading into it more then I said.
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You said nothing about serious?? OK .... what did you mean by "not silly"? Who is the arbiter of what is or is not silly? And, honestly, when did the original poster .... of anything .... have their "intent" control what eventually happened to the post?
Do you have any idea how much serious content is contained in some of those threads which bear a big blue label?? No, probably not, since I'm sure you avoid them like the plague. However, it is not possible, and I do not think it is particularly desirable, to have someone trying to determine what is "silly" .... "not silly" .... "extremely silly" ..... "not silly, but still funny" .... "not silly, but witty" .... ooooo, and then try to maintain whatever they can discerne is the intent of the original poster.
What fun.
And, while I don't necessarily disagree with your suggestion, I happen to think that the best way to make it work is to fix it so that you personally never have to wade through anything that is even remotely silly .... and the best way to do that is to allow you to opt out of the Lounge once your not-silly posts only forum is created.
Think about it .... even if you made the horrific mistake of hitting the "All New Posts" button .... your preferences would be set so that nothing the least bit silly would appear. Problem solved.
I, in turn, would be able to completely filter out the entire forum of "not silly and (as suggested by others) no silliness of any kind allowed ... stick with the topic and do not deviate" so that I wouldn't even be tempted to say anything that could hint at silliness.