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Thoughts on the rule against 'General' topics in the media forum,we do still need it?

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1: Jul 21st 2023 at 4:58:45 AM

So we have a rule that states

  • Broad, unfocused topics are discouraged in the Media forums. We would prefer that conversations there be about specific works, franchises, or creators. If you want to talk about "everybody's favorite X" or whatever, Yack Fest is probably a better place.

I'm not challenging this rule as much as I'm wondering if uprooting the topics to Yack Fest isn't the best approach,honestly I've noticed sometimes moving a topic out of a forum means the thread loses engagement from users who who don't venture out of the media forums,so the topic withers instead of thriving

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#2: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:03:56 AM

I'm of the opinion, if "X Media general" are allowed in Yack Fest, they should have been at the Media forums.

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#3: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:19:53 AM

Most threads that get moved to YF from media forums aren't formatted as "X media general". It's usually someone asking a general question like "what's your favorite x Media?"

Not commenting on the rule itself but maybe we can benefit from giving every media forum a general chat sticky thread. Like a Video Games general thread. The Anime/Manga forum had a chatterbox thread that people used years ago.

EDIT: I think it would better for people to ask these questions in specific media hub threads like the chatterbox thread linked above.

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 21st 2023 at 10:24:18 AM

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#4: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:21:10 AM

Threads for specific questions can stay in Yack Fest.

Edited by Amonimus on Jul 21st 2023 at 5:31:24 PM

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#5: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:24:27 AM

I think most of the different media have chatterbox threads, they just need dug up.

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#6: Jul 21st 2023 at 7:30:15 AM

[up][up][up] I was wondering about that. I'd be in favor of "X Media General" threads for each subforum.

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#7: Jul 23rd 2023 at 9:12:24 AM

I think Anime/Manga stopped using the chatterbox in favour of the rotation of seasonal threads.

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