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I remember why we didn't have a "no topic" topic way back when, but that was when the forum was a lot more active and the chatbox was almost always full to bursting. Those days have since gone, and I think it would be nice to just have a general posting topic specifically to meander back and forth.
It would still be vaguely redundant, yes, but it would also provide a sort of slow-moving chat to let users who don't normally talk to each other outside of topics to have casual conversation.
I feel like it would fit best in the regular discussion board, but I suppose it could be at home in FG&C as well.
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So more or less a free talk that's like a chatbox but without the need for anyone to be on at the same time?

Hmm, I'd definitely see that as being more of a FG&C thing for sure, but I'm not opposed to the idea.
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Yeah, exactly that. Chatbox-only works when the site is active, but slow boards require something a bit different.
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Yeah, I've seen this on other forums I go on. It's just a thread you go into to post something on your mind, and others react. The one I use has over 180 pages. It could do pretty well here.

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I feel like either a mod/admin or me should be the one to make it but I'm not married to the label of thread creator.
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I believe Forum Games & Chat is for exactly this - what am I missing?
Maybe its because of the way the board is named, and I should have named it "Chat & Forum Games"

Is it too congested in there for regular chat?
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Well, originally at least, there was no gentalk thread because the chatbox was a thing, and FG&C was made to keep GD more for actual discussion rather than games like mafia or counting. That was back in, god, 2009? So it's definitely shifted since then and I'm still operating under 2010 terms.
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Mooncow wrote:I believe Forum Games & Chat is for exactly this - what am I missing?
Maybe its because of the way the board is named, and I should have named it "Chat & Forum Games"

Is it too congested in there for regular chat?
FG&C is more or less just a section of a forum where I can sort of post offtopic things. I can create a thread that'll get responses, and doesn't require me to use any of my brain cells to create and post in.

This thread idea was more or less just to post random stuff a thread isn't very useful for. Like if I wanted to just randomly talk about something stupid my friend did, I wouldn't have to link to to a specific topic. I can just post about it in the "Free thread" and people can ignore it, react to it, whatever they want. Usually generating some discussion from it, instead of keeping all those random thoughts to one thread, that'd get 5 posts then die.

I've seen it work on other forums as I've said. It could work here and be interesting discussion wise.

In terms of topic making. I doubt it'd actually hurt the amount of topics made. It might get rid of some of the basic 2/3 reply topics that didn't really have a long discussion to make and dies down several days/weeks later, and if some big topic did occur in the "Free thread" a moderator can post and ask them to make a new thread about this.
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Why not a forum shoutbox?
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I'm reminded of this topic but I'm guessing that's not what you're going for exactly?
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I kinda like this idea, something less spammy than a shoutbox but encourages random talk for users that wont' necessarily be on at the same time. I don't see any real problem with implementing it anyway, since if it's a bad idea it'll just die out.
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Post by CFood »

I think that's what viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16511 is for, as I just noticed it existed myself, lmao

Edit: OH HEY, Someone already linked to it in this thread
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