Personaly, I wouldn't mind ditching the OT forum all together.

Aww...

Thanks for mentioning my thread!

Omg, Do you ever stop whining about this website. I remember you whining about this site before.

Off topic only takes over when its a quiet time of the year. Like right now.

Jeez if you don't like this site stop coming to it like you said you were going to if i recall right.

Sorry to be so straight out

Roar! said the Tiger.

For those that haven't seen my Are you a Virgin? thread.

I never stop whining about one point: useless, off-topic threads and the users that start them. IMO, This isn't just another forum. This is a forum which happens to be providing significant data about the videogame industry. Significant efforts have been and are currently being made to encourage the industry to look at VGC as a legitimate additional source on video gaming data. That said, the front page -- that which people see when they come for the first time -- is full of data that represents that goal. Off-topic discussion on the front page serves no purpose toward that end.

And, yes, I do realize the irony of "professionalism" and my avatar. If it is inappropriate, I'll remove it. I didn't see any rules and not a single mod and/or Ioi has said anything about it so it stays. Same thing for length/width discussion threads. They are apparently not inappropriate for discussion on the main page of the website so there they are.

White Devil -- you are right. My last complaint was about a handful of threads on this very subject. The spam was out of hand. Literally 1000s of posts by a handful of users just generating spam. I checked out for a while, and just as I said, would come back if things were cleaned up a bit. Apparently I wasn't the only one "whining" as Ioi and the mods got quite busy fixing that little problem. I guess they are whiners, too, as they weren't all-too-happy, either. The bans and warnings helped quite a bit and things settled down significantly. However, when I jumped online last night, I found almost half the front page threads to be completely off-topic. Right back where we were. I guess it's a bit hard for you to comprehend the idea of on-topic discussion since the vast majority of your posts are more or less worthless drivel. Sorry to be so blount but that's how I see it.

Carry on.

Yes, please. Or at least let me choose which sections should be on my Hot Topics.

Kn....to be honest, right now is not the time to be judging the hot topics section for interesting content. Have you been through the major sites like Kotaku, Joystiq, IGN, etc.? It was Easter weekend. Nothing happened; entire days passed with nothing being posted at these sites. And there hasn't been a sales update since Tuesday. I don't know about you, but I can't generate news/sales without the help of updates....so that's why we have all the drivel on the front page.

Now it doesn't help that the makeup of users on this site has certainly been downgraded since I and many of the original users joined this site. When I first came Kwaad was the least mature member here, but at least he knew his stuff and was supporting his rants with numbers, fictitious as they were.

These days there are a few different factions of posters (you have ruffled the feathers of one such faction in this very thread) that view VGChartz as their little playground. I guess the best we can do is just let them suck all the low brow posters into their threads to free up the interesting threads for the more educated discussion. There's a win here for everyone.

Lol!  There's some truth in those words...

 To generalize a whole group of people that they"think this is a playground" is wrong, since they post off-topic threads.