BR324: combine srs and irl land / VOAT for your top favorite boards please

[snoorkel]

i kind of agree with nyerp/notsid/hiro

serious discussion is inactive but i think merging it with irl discussion would be akin to deleting altogether it lol

but couldn't we get the same posts that serious discussion gets (all 26 per month) by altering IRL Land's purpose/description a little to include 'serious discussion' in addition to other offline topics? maybe?

also as an aside, I aligned the bottom of the shy guy's feet with the bottom edge of my browser window, and it looks like he's walking across the bottom of my browser

[YPrrrr]

That would actually be a good thing though as "serious discussion" as implemented on Boyah is a misnomer.
I would be in favour of keeping the board if we actually enforced the rules as written for that board more strictly.

I deleted a couple posts in the serious board today

Probably should have deleted Nyerp's but it wasn't worth it

but couldn't we get the same posts that serious discussion gets (all 26 per month) by altering IRL Land's purpose/description a little to include 'serious discussion' in addition to other offline topics? maybe?

also as an aside, I aligned the bottom of the shy guy's feet with the bottom edge of my browser window, and it looks like he's walking across the bottom of my browser

How are we going to differentiate serious threads in that board from more light hearted ones

[snoorkel]

I deleted a couple posts in the serious board today

Probably should have deleted Nyerp's but it wasn't worth itHow are we going to differentiate serious threads in that board from more light hearted ones

We don't have to, that's the point. Many of us post 'serious' replies intended for 'serious' discussion all over the forum, so the board's theme seems a little obsolete... it's basically just politics/religion/morality and other traditionally argument worthy topics, which imo is kind of a stupid distinction to make for a board's discussion theme.

If we combined it into an all-encompassing Offline Discussion board, we could encourage 'serious' (or just semi-serious, not asking for anything) discussion of all things 'real life', including serious debate topics.

For example, some threads from IRL Land:

same sex cuddling
tattoos
what drugs have you tried (experiences)?
things about your looks that you hate

Although these aren't really for argumentative discussion (which shouldn't be the point of 'serious discussion' anyway), why can't they be labeled alongside Serious Discussion topics as slightly more 'serious' than things we post in the Throwdown Showdown, and invite suitably semi-serious discussion?

Again, the idea isn't just to drop/consolidate boards, it's to reform a few vaguely-purposed boards into a more clear and useful theme: Offline Discussion.

Ye? Wouldn't it be fun? Another board that might actually get new discussions every day?

[Nyerp]

I deleted a couple posts in the serious board today

Probably should have deleted Nyerp's but it wasn't worth it

what

[YPrrrr]

It would be nice if it created actual answers instead of "What do you hate about your looks" "Everything "

[snoorkel]

It would be nice if it created actual answers instead of "What do you hate about your looks" "Everything "

Yeah, that's why I think it'd be cool to turn IRL Land into 'semi-serious discussion' with Serious Discussion and Sleep/Dreams topics dumped into it. It would be a board to talk about real life like real life (because that's fun, right?), instead of this stupid board no one uses where the only idea is to post clichéd "serious" topics.

[don't let's]

Eh, most boards are essentially redundant anyway (except anon) considering all things that get posted in this board here, or just in the chat thread. Though some of the probably have generated posts or topics that wouldn't have been made otherwise without the "theme" of the board to spark the idea.

[snoorkel]

Eh, most boards are essentially redundant anyway (except anon) considering all things that get posted in this board here, or just in the chat thread. Though some of the probably have generated posts or topics that wouldn't have been made otherwise without the "theme" of the board to spark the idea.

So you approve? 

[don't let's]

So you approve? 

Well it's fine either way for me, merged or not, but I don't think what I think should have any affect on this at all. Not that it would anyway.

[snoorkel]

Well it's fine either way for me, merged or not, but I don't think what I think should have any affect on this at all. Not that it would anyway.

we are a community, the opinion of those who haven't posted in the boards but possibly would is most valuable

[Mando Pandango]

we are a community, the opinion of those who haven't posted in the boards but possibly would is most valuable

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

[snoorkel]

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

more like a sextatorship :'(

[Samus Aran]

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...

[Mando Pandango]

Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.

[silvertone]

lol