Well, someone else brought it up and I thought it deserved its own thread. Shouldn't political threads be allowed on the alliance server since it is a politically based server?

A couple chirps of agreement from the mods/admins would give people the authority to begin real conversations on this board again.

no go to general talk and give it a leg up

sure, we can bring back Patty, RaVeS, Mickster, Orkinman.. I forget the rest... RaVeS was always my Fav :-P

What Dragonlance said.

Look, AT already has the most posts in the Forums. If you're too lazy to click on a different forum (a forum in dire need of posts) to get your political fix, then I don't see why we have a paging system on the forums, for it takes the exact same amount of effort to click on a different page as it does to click on a different forum.

If you want 'real' conversations on this forum, I suggest doing all you can to help get more players into this server, so we can start having real in-game issues to base topics on. The admins cannot do everything by themselves.

This is a political server. Half the threads are flaming threads. My point is that you cannot rebuild the intensive community that this game once had if you strip the central forum. Saying that it has the most posts is rather irrelevant unless your aim is to keep the total number of posts down. The arguement makes no sense.

General Talk is for just that, general talk. What I am saying is that politically oriented conversations belong on the politically orient server's board.

Yes, it is a political server. FFA is also a political server, as is Team, to a smaller extent.

You're not going to rebuild a community by injecting rl politics into a certain forum. You can do that all you want on AT, FFA, Team, or even GT, and unless more new players show up, all the debating in the world isn't going to build this community.

Listen, I more than welcome political debates on all game forums. Just as long as they're game-related. If we start actually debating about in-game politics instead of flaming each other about rl stuff, I think we'll have more of a chance of retaining the players we have now.

If your too lazy to recruit people to the game, and instead want to keep yourself happy that you are helping by posting a couple of political threads on AT...

was the old AT a bit more fun due to a lot of posts about anything and everything??

its a yes or no question.

Making this board interesting again is one way to maintain people's interest. I would not have made the thread had many people not already been complaining about the drop off in topics of conversation. Take 50 people, cut them up into 5 groups of ten, and have them talk within their groups and you will quickly have less activity then you would have had with a group of 50. You are taking what I said out of context. Saying that political debate on this server would be good for the game (alliance) has little to nothing to do with recruiting people to build the game. Stop putting words in my mouth and changing the topic.

I'd rather not have political threads as a non-US citizen it would bore the poop out of me, and would probably discourage more non-US people from reading these forums if there were more RL politics rather than ingame politics.

I prefer in-game politics as Steeps said. I care not for RL politics in my leisure time.

You know, I used to enjoy the political discussions on AT

it gave AT a different type of life and vitality...and gave different people different ways to enter into the community.

people can ignore the threads:)
I liked it better when 2-3 of them were around:)

as I have very different point of views now, than I did 10 years ago:) would be fun arguing against myself:P

lol same here servant

Just to throw in my worthless 2 cents here. I think a moderate tolerance of off topic threads is generally a good thing for your most active board. If it's near election time and people want to talk about Obama v Tea Party on the most trafficked forum on one thread I don't see how it could hurt to just let em do it.

I heard it is hard to open a different forum to post something off topic, can anyone confirm?

Instead of trying to make an already active forum even more active, how about make a dead one active as well.

2 active forums > 1 active forums

id rather see many offtopic posts here than go to another forum

*heads over to General Talk*

Splitting activity into multiple boards wont help anything. Also, who says the political threads have to be american? They never were all american in the past.

we could create a recent messages page of some kind, where you pick the boards that get their recent messages shown....

so you can do AT + General talk + announcements or something

i think i already coded a bunch of this for the forums... i'll have to go look for it :p

so basically click on a recent message thing instead of on AT? Sounds better. I never check general :P

what happened to my post?

What post?

Recent messages idea is good; actually that was part of my original spec for this forum system it just never happened haha