Off-Topic is only inactive because it takes a slight effort to make a "good thread", which leads to users scrolling right past the threads I tagged "READ BEFORE POSTING" and then making really stupid posts. The problem of thread quality has been here for quite a while, and to attempt to combat this, I even made a thread (which a lot of people still ignore apparently) to guide users into making a thread that would be appropriate for our board. When users ignore this, you get completely stupid threads like the Acronyms thread and then people get upset when they get closed.
Originally Posted by
wibblefox
Offtopic right now is in a horrendous state, maybe half of all threads are closed, and any thread that picks of steam is almost certainly closed swiftly. Just look at it, 1 active thread.... In a sub that is supposed to be fun...
You're saying this like we encourage users to make shit shows of threads, and then we close them to laugh in their faces and boost our cripplingly low self-esteems. Users have the tools necessary to make decent threads, but currently the users just want to make threads dedicated to memes. Threads allowed here are seriously more abstract than everyone seems to think, it's not really our fault that people can't think of "FUN ON MESSAGE BOARDS" outside of game threads.