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I do like it when you need to discuss something that doesn't relate to scratch, but what if a new rule can be made that states that no one can use Scratch as Twitter  .

Considering the average age of the users, this should've been expected when the Scratch Team made Inspiration and More. And that was 2 years ago, so there's obviously a reason they've kept it that long.

That said, Miscellaneous has gotten kind of out of hand lately. But think about it, what would closing it do besides cause an uproar and filling the rest of the forums with spam? I agree with the "make the guidelines stricter" idea. Topics should actually have a point to them, not "OMG IM GOING TO THIS PLACE TOMORROW".

Also, there's nothing wrong with having an offtopic section, even if this is the Scratch forum. It's standard in most places, just like smileys (and you're not going to suggest we take those away, right?  ) And think about the people whose parents won't let them join anything other than the Scratch forums. It's fine where it is now, we should just think about changing the rules a bit.

Last edited by hmnwilson (2010-08-22 14:43:35)

hmnwilson wrote:

Considering the average age of the users, this should've been expected when the Scratch Team made Inspiration and More. And that was 2 years ago, so there's obviously a reason they've kept it that long.

That said, Miscellaneous has gotten kind of out of hand lately. But think about it, what would closing it do besides cause an uproar and filling the rest of the forums with spam? I agree with the "make the guidelines stricter" idea. Topics should actually have a point to them, not "OMG IM GOING TO THIS PLACE TOMORROW".

Also, there's nothing wrong with having an offtopic section, even if this is the Scratch forum. It's standard in most places, just like smileys (and you're not going to suggest we take those away, right?  ) And think about the people whose parents won't let them join anything other than the Scratch forums. It's fine where it is now, we should just think about changing the rules a bit.

terminator68 wrote:

I do like it when you need to discuss something that doesn't relate to scratch, but what if a new rule can be made that states that no one can use Scratch as Twitter   .

These pretty much sum it up...

i posted in here n someone dlted it

I agree
There's nothing worthwhile in here.
Or at least we can take out post counts
No one cares about them any more now that they closed that list (and if they do, I don't think I can help)

Chrischb wrote:

...have fallen in love there...

,,,What??

I guess I support
Do not respond >.>

I kinda enjoyed chatting in the Misc forum. But I agree it's way to much like Facebook now    But I don't think we should close the whole thing. There are some interesting topics in there. I find a difference between "What do you want to be when you grow up?" or "What country's do you want to go too?" and "My cat died" or "This movie sucked".

boinoinoi wrote:

Survivorduck wrote:

-Move Misc. to the same site as the TBG

You read my mind?

No need to delete it, just move it somewhere else.

But then can't users just use chat forums? The Scratch Team is keeping the forum....

Quoting to get this noticed...

hmnwilson wrote:

Considering the average age of the users, this should've been expected when the Scratch Team made Inspiration and More. And that was 2 years ago, so there's obviously a reason they've kept it that long.

That said, Miscellaneous has gotten kind of out of hand lately. But think about it, what would closing it do besides cause an uproar and filling the rest of the forums with spam? I agree with the "make the guidelines stricter" idea. Topics should actually have a point to them, not "OMG IM GOING TO THIS PLACE TOMORROW".

Also, there's nothing wrong with having an offtopic section, even if this is the Scratch forum. It's standard in most places, just like smileys (and you're not going to suggest we take those away, right?  ) And think about the people whose parents won't let them join anything other than the Scratch forums. It's fine where it is now, we should just think about changing the rules a bit.

I agree about closing Miscellaneous, PS: there is an AtomicBawm3 under and above illusionist 

boinoinoi wrote:

adriangl wrote:

boinoinoi wrote:

You read my mind?

No need to delete it, just move it somewhere else.

But then can't users just use chat forums? The Scratch Team is keeping the forum....

um, I'm not sure what you mean by that at all. However, I have come up with a suggestion that might satisfy people, that is, to separate Misc into Events and Things (Yeah I'm not sure what things should really be called)

Basically, there would be a separate section for people to talk about events rather than a specific subject, for example: (I'm copypasting topic names here)
Events
Shock!
I need to get a life!
My [very failed] attempt at a Scratch Cat Plushie

Things(I need a better name for this)
Petition to get the Pac-Man project back online!
Official Team Fortress 2 thread
Sanity Gaming

In this case Events would be moved away from the main site, alike TBG, because it is a lot more chatty and problem causing. Things would stay as Misc., however, since that is (what I think) Misc. was originally made for.

But of course there are some things that might not fit inside those categories, so we would need to make an Other section in that which is where you put topics you're not sure belongs to what category, but wouldn't that be another Miscellanous?