06-08-2014, 02:13 PM
The more I think about this, the more conflicted I am. I talked to BumblebeeCody about the Chit Chat thread earlier today and my original stance was that it should stay dead. Then, after reading about your plans for the General Gaming thread, I realized that I actually really like where that's going - the thread stays but there is a good set of criteria for things that should always have their own thread and that should strike a nice balance there.
The issue I'm having is that I can't think of a set of criteria that applies to General Discussion. I'm afraid that a new Chit Chat thread will do what it did before - suck almost all activity into that one thread and leave the rest of the forum mostly devoid of posts. However, if you can come up with some way to manage it like the General Gaming thread is going to be, I think I'd be fine with Chit Chat coming back because, especially after reading Cuccos' post, I can see the value in it. Short of getting on Skype and creating group chats, or using Facebook and the like, there really is no way to simply communicate informally with friends made on the site and that's something I'd like to see rectified, one way or another.
The issue I'm having is that I can't think of a set of criteria that applies to General Discussion. I'm afraid that a new Chit Chat thread will do what it did before - suck almost all activity into that one thread and leave the rest of the forum mostly devoid of posts. However, if you can come up with some way to manage it like the General Gaming thread is going to be, I think I'd be fine with Chit Chat coming back because, especially after reading Cuccos' post, I can see the value in it. Short of getting on Skype and creating group chats, or using Facebook and the like, there really is no way to simply communicate informally with friends made on the site and that's something I'd like to see rectified, one way or another.