 | | Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) Well, sort of yes and sort of no. Just as .off-topic.debate wasn't created just for the sake of having debates, .off-topic.fun wasn't created just for the sake of having fun. Rather, .debate was created for having debates about stuff and .fun (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) No? Unless you want 3 dozen .off-topic groups for each type of off-topic conversations, it seems a little silly to split them up like that. I'd say off-topic.fun could be a catch-all until enough traffic in a specific kind of subject warrants (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) But doesn't that make geeky posts easier to identify? Yet I guess the problem is that if a geeky post morphs into a punfest, that makes it hard to identify. Maybe it's better netiquette (that I need to practice) to change the subject to be a (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Geek posts usually are easy to identify. Mostly pun-filled threads, though, seem to be moved over from other groups. My point is that if some people think there is enough traffic to warrant .geek (not (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Thinking of both. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Original purpose of .off-topic.fun —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Oh, definitely agreed! But I just think it's good to have a structure/plan in mind so that when a group's time does come, a switch can simply be thrown to turn it on. Otherwise without a structure in place, things grow a bit too organically (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.admin.general)
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