ApexProcyon: Uninteresting topics are created and discussed by uninteresting people. Don't try to sugarcoat it.

Fairfox: thanks for (old) update, person i dont kno.

i just ated some raspberry fudge cake as evenin' snack

i thought it was goin' to be cherry at teh store earlier an' she was all o noes its raspberry an' i was kkz an' she was :D

it tastes of raspberry. i had some raspberry choccy k-cup coffee to go with it. i mean mebbe overkill? buuut not so much but then i had some (lite!) cream with it which obvs. dilutes. also! pretentious sugar buuut so li'l i mean you can naht really fo' realz fo' sho' taste it. i kno its thar, tho, an' taht is important

morolf: Well, what do you want to talk about?

HereForTheBeer: Haha, well, maybe it's like the family get-together, where the same old stories told over and over again. But if you have some ideas for fun topics, we're all ears.

drealmer7: I've missed YOU!

tinyE: i'm still here

oh wait

hedwards: It's been that way for years. Interesting posts get drowned in a sea of forum games, contests and things that really ought to have their own subforum.

Not that I have anything i particular against those sorts of posts, but they do tend to drag on for a very long time and are often times on the front page for months and in some cases years, leading to the situation where new topics are often times not to be found on page one.

Also, there's posters here that are a much bigger pain in the ass than in the past. Saying anything even remotely interesting can result in pain in the ass responses that don't really address the point or add anything interesting. And god help you if you're foolish enough to realize that it's going nowhere and walk away as then you get to deal with the minor annoyance of people without anything interesting to say using moderation to register that they disagree rather than advance some sort of argument.

Tarm: Me? I want YOU to trigger my interest here and not the other way around. ;)

morolf: Don't you think that's a bit much of a sense of entitlement?
If you want to be entertained by us, maybe you should pay us?

Tarm: Way to go GOG. You've thought of a way to make forum members want to commercialize crap posts. Yay!

Tarm: Or we could all keep creating crap posts and drop brand names here and there to earn GOG advert money? :P

morolf: But why should I care about Gog earning money? Unless they pay me for my quality posts ("Morolf: commenter of the month"..."here's your cheque, Morolf, for your outstanding contributions to the forum"), there's no incentive for me.

Tarm: Gold membership! :D Where you get a piece of the cake.

morolf: Cake's always nice, especially cheesecake .

Tarm: Gold membership! :D Where you get a piece of the cake.

morolf: Cake's always nice, especially cheesecake .

Tarm: Yeah your two first points are old ones and yes the answer is more subforums. I mean how hard can it be? I've been a forum moderator and I could literally create a new subforum by a couple of clicks, some writing for forum rules and a couple posts to make clear how the rules work. I mean the code for the forum can't be that big a mess can it to prevent that?

Your third paragraph is not known to me because I don't read the general forum anymore. Sounds like general shite on the net. People abusing moderation in various ways. That's up to the moderators to be good enough to spot it to be frank.