Responding to
your recent feedback, we have decided to launch a poll where you can help us choose how to handle "serious" off-topic discussions in our community.
From all the feedback we have received, we were able to pin it down to two options that we got:
Option 1) Leave "Lounge" as it is and add another section - "Salon" (or "The Study", or similarly named) - under Miscellaneous. The new section will hold topics which don't fit within any of the other sections and that go beyond mere banter (which is a predominant theme in the Lounge). It'd be where folks can gather to discuss issues of importance to them with minimal diversions into "silliness" (as we would generally agree on).
Option 2) Add a new sortable thread prefix - "Keep it Sensible" (or similarly named) - in the Lounge section to go alongside "Silliness" and "Meet Up". The prefix would indicate that folks want to discuss issues of importance to them with minimal diversions into "silliness" (as we would generally agree on).
Technical note: It
is possible to exclude forums from your new post searches, but it is
not possible to exclude threads based on their prefix.
Hence -
Option 1 would give you the advantage to be able to competely ignore either section in new post searches (optional, through your
user settings), while option 2 has the advantage that all off-topic posts would still be located within the same section.
We will make this poll a quick one (it runs for only three or four days), so please go ahead and vote for your favorite option.
As always, hearing what you have to say, whether criticism or praise, helps us a lot to improve this community. Thanks for your support!