Novskij said:
Off-Topic has the best and most interesting variety of topics, the games disscussion is a bit boring.
This essentially. It's not an observation exclusive to
The Escapist's forums either, as I explained in a previous post of mine on a thread which also brought this topic up:
Zombie_Fish said:
Kongregate [http://www.kongregate.com/forums] has the same issue with their Off-Topic forum, so does Ultimate Guitar [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/] with The Pit (their Off-Topic forum), so does Super Cheats [http://forums.supercheats.com/index.php] with their General Boards, so does Newgrounds [http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/] with their General forum, so does Weebl's Stuff [http://forums.weebls-stuff.com/] with their General forum. That is essentially every forum I've ever visited in my life with the exception of The Escapist's sister site, Warcry [http://www.warcry.com/forums/], whose Off-Topic is in the top three most active forums.
The main reason is that Gaming Discussion has a limited number of topics, as would pretty much any other forum based around a specific topic and including the other forums that this site has. Off-Topic is meant to be all the possible and acceptable topics minus any topic with a devout forum to it. And when you have forums even as varied as
Kongregate and
Ultimate Guitar with the number of boards that they have, the vast majority of topics will be in that remainder of discussions that gets deemed suitable for Off-Topic.
SharPhoe said:
Actually, the Jobs thread is far, FAR more recent than the other two you mention, which is the reason for its low content in comparison.
This as well. If you're going to compare our other forums to Off-Topic and Gaming Discussion, the only fair ones to compare it to are The News Room and Featured Content, as to my knowledge they're the only ones that have been here as long as the other two have which are still around.
*waits to see if Virgil calls bullsh*t again*
