And it looks like it's happening to other people too. Is there a site glitch or what is going on?

*edit* it has stopped now, but this morning it was at 2800 and now is at 3600. It isn't that big of a deal; I was just wondering about it

Come to think about it, same thing happened to me too :/

I was at 3K profile views yesterday and now it's 6.2K.. ( now my post count is less than views D: )

Not really a big issue but it is indeed weird..

I'd like to be a mod.

What was the reason for not allowing General Discussion threads to be shown in the front page's Forum Hot Topics?

I think there's a chance these threads get ignored by a lot of people.

 I would like to know too. I just refresh the hot topic page on the forum.

I do that as well, I refresh the Hot Topic page but I think there could be a lot of people that don't bother doing that at all and therefore threads made in forums that don't show up at the front page end up ignored.

My guess for the decision of not showing threads from certain forums may be due to, as I recall from years back, several user threads made back in the day in the General Forum that felt like spam or casual things. Maybe they want to keep those topics not affecting the image of VGChartz, a gaming site, you know, by being there at the front and all.

But then what is the point of making threads in a forum no one or barely anyone visits?

Yeah, there could be people who loiter on the front page. I personally like the non-gaming threads now and then. Especially when 80% of the threads are nintendo related. I would like to see more news from other countries type of threads. Maybe music from different countries. Just something we don't rant about all the time. So yes, general discussion should be on the front page in my opinion. 

This is the culprit

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=31831&page=1

That could explain things. People in VGChartz will decide to do what they think is best for the website and if they don't want General forum threads on the front page that is their call.

But then I guess there's no point in putting much effort into creating threads people will barely see.

A little more variation in the forum discussions would be appreciated indeed. But we can't have that if people don't see threads where they can discuss other things.

lol I can imagine having a flood of threads like that making VGStaffers opt to put those threads away from the front page. But like Ka-Pi96 said, there's a NSFW subforum apart.

Also if having pointless threads, spam threads, created in the General forum and put on the front page is the issue, I'd say Mods have been taking care of spam threads for a while now. The situation is controlled.

Unless they fear that promoting non-videogame related discussions may bring more work, more threads to mod, and the whole point of not showing General Forum threads at the front page could be Mods slowly killing those threads to simplify work. I don't know.

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