It’s a real good thing. And tomorrow’s going to be a good day too.
You mean… the Germans DIDN’T bomb Minnie Pearl?! 
I always wondered what happened to Winnie Cooper. Damn krauts.
Meh. I could just as easily say something similar about you.
This makes no sense. It’s only an annoyance because of where it’s at and won’t go away.
[sup]Unless I’ve been whooshed.[/sup]
[sup]Maybe[/sup]
More like you didn’t understand the sarcasm, and the history behind this particular subject.
Not to overexplain a funny too much, but there are always clamors for subfora, like one for Sports, or European Politics, or Dungeons & Dragons, or Outdoor Winter Nudity, or Smilie Art, or whatever.
Meh.
Well, it’s right where you put it. Where it’s supposed to be is a matter of contention.
It’s seems like a fair compromise would be to have a forum for the Art of Nude European Political Roleplaying Sports.
No mistake there. How dare you impugn the historical acumen of a U.S. Senator.
And now that we finally got what we want, we’re complaining! Ungrateful!
I can’t believe that worked.
Hey, wow. Groovy!
Personally, I never liked that Halloween threads were moved into a different forum; and I thought the closed sub-forum served no purpose. This is how I think Halloween threads should be handled:
- Leave them in MPSIMS or Café Society or wherever. They’ll be visible as long as they are useful, and will sink after the festivities.
OR
- Move the threads in to a separate forum. As Thanksgiving approaches, move them back to their original forums and move new threads created in the new forum to the appropriate forum (CS, IMHO, MPSIMS).
The former is the least work, but lacks the ‘fun’ of a seasonal forum. The latter has the seasonal forum, but is a lot of work to move threads to where they belong. Given that some Halloween threads contain useful information, I don’t think they should be disappeared.
I don’t really have a vested interest in this one way or another and was going to let it drop but since this thread is still on top I’ll explain my position better.
I understand the history. I understand that the mods probably get tired of fielding requests for more or special forums. I understand that Czarcasm used to be a mod. But his contention that “[the Halloween forum’s] rotting dead body should stay staked to the main page to serve as an example/warning to all those that cry out for temporary forums” still doesn’t make sense. There are any number of ways that the situation could be handled that wouldn’t be annoying to the casual reader [see JLA’s suggestions below as an example]. I think Czarcasm’s over-the-top suggestion is a hold over from his modding days. It’s silly to suggest that the occasional special forum is back-breaking to the board.
And yet we have a 57 post thread whining about just one special forum. Imagine if we start doing this regularly.
I know, Easter is coming up. Why don’t we have an Easter Forum? Then we can post all the threads on bunnies and egg hunts and baskets and hats and whatnot in one place. And after Easter is over, we can lock it down, too, and then stuff it at the top of MPSIMS. And then maybe do a forum on Memorial Day. Follow up with a forum on Columbus Day. Next thing you know, the first two pages of MPSIMS will be dead forums that are locked to new posts.
You see, this is counter to the way the forum lists operate. Normally, when threads are inactive or locked, they fall off the main page out of the way as new threads move to the top. But now we have a forum that is locked stuck at the top of the MPSIMS forum list. It won’t fall off the main page and go away, like regular locked and dead threads.
Is it a huge deal? No. But it is an annoyance. It was an experiment, and now we’re finding out the unexpected consequences. Take the lesson - no silly special forums. They just become a nuisance.
Easy. Set up a special forum to complain about special forums.
Wow!
I, for one, would have never guessed that this would become so contentious.
(Is that the right word?)