I don't understand what the problem is here anymore. General Chat is pretty lax as it is, isn't it? You can post just about anything there as long as it wouldn't belong in another forum and isn't spamming/trolling, right? The problem that I see is that people just don't feel like or don't have the time to be making new threads all the time. Making GC "more general," which I don't even understand, wouldn't solve this problem.

Quote Originally Posted by Pete
My proposal was a more general General Chat, with word games that require some thought.
First, we can have word games that require some thought. I've seen some of these threads in the word games forum before, but usually they fade out after a while. The word games that require thought just aren't as popular as the other ones. Putting them in General Chat instead of Word Games won't change the fact that they aren't popular. We can have humor there too, but unfortunately no one really posts any either.

Also, what do you mean by making General Chat more general? Do you suggest that we get rid of the other forums like Jin said and post everything in one forum? I prefer to have separate forums like we have now.

Finally, like I've said previously, the people who normally post in Word Games post there because they want to. If they wanted to post elsewhere, they would. Getting rid of word games would most likely not lead to them posting elsewhere if they still don't want to post there. They'll just go to a forum that has "Word Games." If anything, us having Word Games keeps those members here, and they will occasionally post outside of that forum when they see something that interests them.

Anyway, have you not looked in the Word Games forum recently? Most of the people who post there have post counts in the hundreds if not in the thousands... It seems like some people posting here don't understand that there aren't really people who just post in the Word Games forum. I would say, if anything, that a lot of people who post in Word Games just want to post somewhere, but can't find other threads in other forums that interest them.