Agony Auntie Corner?

Well, while I, personally, think love issues and such should be a private thing, many people here seem to feel differently and like to share their problems publicly. So, given that, if you have a site with political forums as well as gaming ones, why not a forum for love/relationships? Now, the next one you need to consider is "Religion and Dogma" and we'll have all the bases covered.

 

Make love, not war!

(Translation: would be muchly good )

 

Why not? I'm sure it would be popular with many people here.

 

Why not?

 

The only reason why not - that I can think of - is whether you really need a whole forum, or if the occasional thread in Whatnots is enough. But I guess that it's a pretty common topic, and it may prove popular, so go for it.

You just need to find a suitable BioWare related name for it...

 

I don't think it is a good idea.

 

Well, I think the Whatnots and the RBP do the job pretty well, unless we're going to aim for more discussion. For the usual sighing and sobbing, the RBP and Whatnots do seem enough. On the other hand, the subject has always been interesting to me. I've always been interested in how it works, what draws people together, what makes it work out between them. Would write more but can't with hands hurting this much.

 

And the name of this forum? "Sune's Corner"? "Loviatar's Dungeon" might be a better name considering that most of the posts seem to deal with suffering.

But do we really need another forum for this topic? It is natural for the topic of love and relationship to be popular. Posting your problems can be therapeutic but having its own forum might make some people believe that they can get reliable advice.

 

I don't think this is the most appropriate forum for discussing each others personel problems. I don't really want to know about your problems, do you want to know about mine? No. I guess the occasional problem topic in the Whatnots forum is no big deal but anything that would trigger more people to post about their problems is a big bad idea. I would just find it kind of depressing.

 

The Brothel of Intellectual Lusts naturally.

Anyway I'm not sure if it's required. I'm all for giving some advice and support for people who need it but I don't think it requires a separate forum. I do however think that it might be good to resurrect the old relationship rant thread and move the babbling about relationships there instead of random babbling. I know some people find it extremely annoying to watch people complain about their love life (jealousy perhaps? ) and a separate thread allows them to easily avoid such discussions. Anyway I don't think there will be enough posters in a separate forum and specific bigger love problems can have their own topics either in whatnots or the alley depending on their nature.

Just my two cents.

EDIT:

I'll have to disagree. I have allways found politics to be sort of a game and there are several serious political theories which relate politics to strategical board games.

[ May 13, 2005, 03:09: Message edited by: Morgoroth ]

 

Not sure if we need a separate forum for it. Main reason is that would probably have to be named after one of the brothels in the various CRPGs (why do they all seem to have one?) which wouldn't really be very wholesome (the "Wink and Tickle", anyone?)

And as for why we need non-game related forums - it's because there are so few games these days that meet our highly refined tastes. Look at the huge amount of traffic in the Demon Stone forum as an example.......

 

Wait till May. All these rantings are seasonal. Then the idea of a seperate forum will seem like so much excess.
Not to mention the amount of whining a whole new forum has the potential to attract.

 

Huh? It IS May.

 

No. Too many forums as it is already with the splitting of the alley. The few threads can easily be handled by Whatnots and the serious ones by the alley. Besides I don't see why people have to post such intimate personal feelings on the internet, but thats just me.

 

Well, although I also like talking about these sorts of things, and the boards is a good venue for that, I don't think we need a seperate forum for it. Indeed, the threads in Whatsnots and AoDA seem to do nicely.

I'm not opposed to the idea, just think it'd be kinda redundant.

 

What dmc and Apeman said. There's not enough time to visit all the current ones now. Although those with 3000+ posts might disagree.

 

It's just a nmatter of priorities

And hey, if politics have to do with games, so dfoes love - why else would there be approximately billion and one romance mods out there?

 

If there was a separate forum you'd know which threads to avoid.