Rant Box: The most mislabelled forum on this board?

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The best fate for this forum:

Poll ended at Wed Oct 05, 11 3:42 pm

Keep name as "Rant Box"
7
47%
Change to "Serious Discussion"
6
40%
Merge with General Discussion, move General Spam out of General Chat
2
13%
 
Total votes : 15

Rant Box: The most mislabelled forum on this board?

Postby James » Wed Sep 21, 11 3:42 pm

Please read the following text before voting.

This board was created in 2005 or 2006 by my intention to spark more serious discussion of anything involving news, drama and goings on with lives and the world etc.

I stole the name "Rant Box" from a musician's forums for their community drama, they had another forum called "Serious Talk". I thought of combining the two but keeping the name of the former. A mistake in hindsight.

I think we don't rant enough to warrant the name.

So I ask, should we keep the name as "Rant Box" or change it to "Serious Discussion"?

Alternatively we can bring life to General Discussion:
Merge Rant Box with General Discussion, move General Spam out of General Chat to make the catagory look good.
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Postby Kaiden » Wed Sep 21, 11 6:50 pm

I'm personally happy with the layout atm. Rant box for serious discussion, general for less serious, and spam for spam.

I voted keep the name as I quite like rant box, or more, I dislike the name "serious discussion". I'm fine with it being changed though so my vote is split between 1 & 2.
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Postby ~DJ~ » Wed Sep 21, 11 7:14 pm

Keep it as the same, it's where people rant and be serious.

To be honest, general chat isn't that much serious business and shouldn't be, because no one is serious 'generally'.. it's better to be separated :oops:
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Postby Hanover Fist » Wed Sep 21, 11 8:22 pm

The general sections are as sparse as their names imply. Shit's almost too literally relevant to itself.
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Postby clyzm » Wed Sep 21, 11 10:05 pm

I like serious discussion, particularly because not every topic in the rant box is an actual (ie angry post) rant.
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Postby James » Fri Sep 23, 11 10:58 am

Still pretty even and that means of course Rant Box is most likely at the moment, but please read this quote again I've edited.

James wrote:I stole the name "Rant Box" from Bullet for my Valentine's forums for their community drama, they had another forum called "Serious Talk". I thought of combining the two but keeping the name of the former. A mistake in hindsight.
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Postby ~DJ~ » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:13 am

i like them

KEEP IT
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Postby James » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:14 am

You're allowed to because you're a little angel.
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Postby MrBlackDX » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:17 am

Change to Serious Discussion.

Edit the rules.

- No "y u taek internets so srs?" comments

- Ranting is also acceptable in this area.
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Postby ynnaD » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:17 am

MrBlackDX wrote:"y u taek internets so srs?


GREAT FORUM NAME RIGHT THERE

Making a request to have rant box changed to this!
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Postby Dae » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:31 am

I think it's a good idea to expand the purport of this forum, but it shouldn't be called "Serious discussion" because it somewhat implies that the rest of the forum is just for laughs and giggles :) I'm not strongly against it though.
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Postby James » Fri Sep 23, 11 11:36 am

I see your point, maybe serious discussion isn't the best name,
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Postby MrBlackDX » Fri Sep 23, 11 12:17 pm

"The one place people will get warned for spamming SC2 videos"
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Postby James » Wed Sep 28, 11 12:03 pm

Welp, looks like it stays rant box.
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Postby Dae » Wed Sep 28, 11 12:24 pm

James wrote:Welp, looks like it stays rant box.

What about

"Rants & debates"?
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Postby James » Wed Sep 28, 11 12:25 pm

do it
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Postby Kaiden » Wed Sep 28, 11 4:42 pm

What was the point in a poll if it changes anyway omg wtf leaving

(looks fine though)
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Postby James » Thu Sep 29, 11 9:55 am

Kaiden wrote:What was the point in a poll if it changes anyway omg wtf leaving

(looks fine though)


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Postby ~DJ~ » Thu Sep 29, 11 2:59 pm

I DEMAND JUSTICE. I VOTED FOR SOMETHING ELSE AND IT WON DINT IT SO Y CHANGE??

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Postby James » Thu Sep 29, 11 3:08 pm

Please PM me and we'll launch a union assault onto the corrupt Jewish zionists who own these servers.

To be fair, the top two were 50:50, while this means the original would be likely to stay, Dae chose to meet both ways.
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Postby Professor Layton » Thu Sep 29, 11 4:32 pm

Just to be a semantic asshole, isn't a debate very different from serious discussion though?

I thought discussions were like "Hey, let's discuss", while debates are like "HEY I'LL TELL YOU WHY YOU'RE WRONG". Is it like that? Or is it just my mind being clouded by the way people 'debate' in politics?
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Postby Aidan » Thu Sep 29, 11 7:25 pm

Debates are usually disagreements on more than one side.


Discussions are usually sharing information, and talking about common interests. Most conversations start as discussions (I would hope to god).



However, It can always go this route...

Discussion > Debate > Heated Debate (as Clix said. Politics) > Ranting [= Bitching]

If it goes downhill enough, that's when the ranting comes into place. Mindless bitching where nobody really proves a point, etc.
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