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[Deathangel008]

just noticed that you still have this in your official site rules:

We understand that sometimes, straying off-topic is unavoidable, but if you want to participate in a group completely unrelated to BioWare, you can create or join the conversation in pre-existing threads in The Lobby, the off-topic sub-forum.

yes, of course we can - oh, wait.

i dont know, is this caused by laziness or just another expression of your disinterest in your community? my guess would be the latter, to be honest. also not sure whether i should laugh or cry about this, but it´s more likely i´ll decide to laugh.

 

 

btw, just out of curiosity: did the lockdown of the offtopic subforum actually "provide[d] a better experience on [y]our forums", and did it "create a stronger forum community in the long run"?

 

and no, of course i dont expect an official answer, you showed us that you hate your community often enough.

 

now go ahead, lock this thread and give me another warning point for no reason.

[Just My Moniker]

- BSN

 

- Official Site Rules

 

- lel

[Puddi III]

Hah, when I brought that up weeks ago I didn't know I was talking about something enshrined in the site rules.

Which hasn't been fixed since then.

What a surprise.

[LPPrince]

Ahh yes, the off topic subforum that housed all subjects not directly pertaining to Bioware, its products, or any of its properties.

 

I'd dismiss those claims but its archived so...

[Fidite Nemini]

Well, I hope everyone had a merry christmas/holidays and a smooth transition into the new year.

 

At least the latter comes with a twelve months warning.

[LPPrince]

Well, I hope everyone had a merry christmas/holidays and a smooth transition into the new year.

 

At least the latter comes with a twelve months warning.

 

I'll admit, I laughed. And indeed I did.

[PresidentVorchaMasterBaits]

NEW OFF TOPIC IS IN ME:A GENERAL DISCUSSION!

[Commander Rpg]

NEW OFF TOPIC IS IN ME:A GENERAL DISCUSSION!

[The Real Pearl #2]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like. Was it the andromeda forum but 10x worse?

[PresidentVorchaMasterBaits]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like. Was it the andromeda forum but 10x worse?

IT WAS BETTER! BECAUSE YOU COULD ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT WEREN'T BIOWARE GAMES AND NOT GET THREADS LOCKED! YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO START A STEVEN UNIVERSE THREAD AND DISCUSS IT PASSIONATELY FOR THIRTY PAGES!!!! OFF TOPIC RULED!!!

[The Real Pearl #2]

IT WAS BETTER! BECAUSE YOU COULD ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT WEREN'T BIOWARE GAMES AND NOT GET THREADS LOCKED! YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO START A STEVEN UNIVERSE THREAD AND DISCUSS IT PASSIONATELY FOR THIRTY PAGES!!!! OFF TOPIC RULED!!!

My god...WHY??? I COULD HAVE EXPANDED MY CULT!!!

[LPPrince]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like. Was it the andromeda forum but 10x worse?

Off Topic was great. Its where you'd be if you wanted to talk to Bioware fans about non-Bioware things. It had its highs and lows but it was generally a great place to make friends with other Bioware fans.

 

Can't do it now though. Now its Talk about Bioware stuff or bust.

[Commander Rpg]

Can't do it now though. Now its Talk about Bioware stuff or bust.

That's either talking about games released long ago or not yet released games. Yahoo.

[Puddi III]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like. Was it the andromeda forum but 10x worse?

Well you can always check the archive section or my sig.

It's better than it was a month ago.

There is a SU thread now.

[The Real Pearl #2]

Well you can always check the archive section or my sig.

It's better than it was a month ago.

 Thereis a SU thread now.

Where? on bsn? 

[Puddi III]

Where? on bsn? 

In the forum in my sig.

There was one in the archived off-topic too, but yeah.

[The Real Pearl #2]

In the forum in my sig.

There was one in the archived off-topic too, but yeah.

if i had any likes left ill give them all to you

[PresidentVorchaMasterBaits]

PEARL! THE SAME OFF TOPIC FORUM IS IN VORCHA SIG TOO!! WE'RE THERE ALSO! COME JOIN VROOMSOCIALNETWORK!!!!11!!!

[Commander Rpg]

THE SAME OFF TOPIC FORUM IS IN VORCHA SIG TOO!!

Wait until he/she sees who lurks in there.

[Puddi III]

Most of the trolls and a-holes are gone, actually.

 

Like that one zealot who couldn't stop whining about atheists, what a guy.

 

New normal people are welcome. (though we have to approve new members after a harassing troll spamming alts a while ago)

[mybudgee]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like...

Spoiler

 

 

 

[The Real Pearl #2]

^^ i would prefer you shove those in spoilers. The mods might flag you

[Asari Goddess]

^^ i would prefer you shove those in spoilers. The mods might flag you

 

I can see why you said that. Those images made me ass cling

[PresidentVorchaMasterBaits]

I can see why you said that. Those images made me ass cling

GRAAAAAAGH!! THAT WAS JUST VORCHA'S HAND!!

[Orian Tabris]

I was never around to witness the off-topic. I wonder what it was like. Was it the andromeda forum but 10x worse?

 

Don't take what mybudgee and some of those others say about the off-topic forum too seriously, it had a lot of interesting threads that went on for hundreds of pages (which became even longer when the BSN transitioned to BWF,* since each page is shorter). Most of them were pretty casual, with really fun ideas (e.g. 'compliment the above poster,' 'what are you listening to currently?,' 'respond to the above poster's signature', 'what are you reading?'). I think 4000+ of my posts were on these sorts of threads. Probably the biggest non-casual thread was the 'anime/manga thread'.

 

There were also current world event threads (for lack of a better way to describe them), like announcements of a deceased celebrity (e.g. Leonard Nimoy, that guy who played Thane).

 

It wasn't all spammers and liberal posters going on about anything that bothered them (heck, I don't even remember any atheist condemnation threads). It did get pretty stupid at times, no doubt about that.

 

*On that note, the site is no longer the BSN. I see a lot of people referring to the forum as BSN, even new people, but BSN stood for 'BioWare Social Network,' which was the literal name for the site. They transferred much of the site's content into this new site. Now it's the BWF (BioWare Forums), which is boringly vague, IMHO.