If they did, they better be ready to take on more moderators, because that's their safety net.
There are people who react to controversial opinions, or even simply opinions that differ to theirs, as if they are being brutally oppressed, and will demand total censorship of the offending material. No doubt for some the mere existence of OT is 'triggering' and its removal would make MMO-C the glorious safe space of their dreams.
Gen OT is an absolute cesspit and a cancerous growth on this site, and politics is nothing more than the same plus a circle jerk. The others are alright.
Gen OT and politics also where almost 100% of my post count comes from. So, I don't know what that says about me.
I think the topic would have been more interesting if limited in scope.
Last edited by Reaper0329; 2019-06-13 at 02:22 PM.
Well seeing I haven't played WoW actively in like 2 years not much of a reason to come here
I am always surprised at how much more busy wow general is than GenOT.
Right now it is 533 vs 420. Hard to believe(maybe because I just find a lot of things on this site wow related to be highly redundant including discussions about the game) but this is still a WoW site. Even with all these other games coming out and all the petitions for sub forums for them because they will "kill wow". Actually the alternative forums are struggling to break double digits according to the forum page lol.
I think traffic would be ok.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
People would probably do what they do on the official Blizzard forums and just use other forums as Gen-OT instead of their intended purposes.
iirc, Blizzard doesn't have a forum specifically for general/off-topic stuff, but they do have an "off topic" section with subforums like movies, books, non-Blizzard games, etc. People just use those as Gen-OT forums. There's stuff like "food/drinks you like that nobody else likes" and other random threads in the movies forum. I imagine the same thing would happen here if they did away with General Off-Topic. And yeah, a lot of people would probably just flat-out leave and go shitpost somewhere else too (which may or may not be an improvement, /shrug).
But yeah, if people just start using other forums as general OT, that probably just creates more work for the mods because they'd regularly have to clean all the general discussion crap from the other forums (depending on how heavily they'd want to enforce keeping things on topic in those forums, I guess).
Last edited by avitush; 2019-06-13 at 11:28 PM.
I'd be 100% fine with it. They're usually a crapfest of 'Muricans doing the Left vs Right dance anyway.
The saturation of politics driven drivel is what makes it shit. Ban that, and infract people breaching it not posting in the politics section, please.
The gaming portions are seperate. I fail to see how there would be any impact. There Is no focus from MMO-C on the OT forums. And which OT forums are to be removed? Anything not related to WoW? Just the Gen-OT because some of you dont like but cant seem to avoid it for some reason?
READ and be less Ignorant.
Any traffic for a site that relies on such is good traffic.