thanks for making those points Mumblefratz....

99% of the time I use the Recent Forum Activity on the right of the page...which doesn't give the option to know where it originated...

very frustrating for all obviously....

So...if we see a thread of no relevance to WC Community/Skinning/Computers and we decide to boycott it by not posting/relying...even more irrelevant threads will appear. There's logic for you, eh Fuzzy?

I begin to understand why so many folks I used to see here I no longer do.

I have repeatedly asked for this kind of information to be made available to no avail. I do think that knowing the site that a post or reply comes from would be very helpful. You could just ignore folks from a certain site if you want to. But even beyond that it provides some context as to what the person's interest's are to know what site they're from. Gamers are different folks than bloggers who are different from skinners.

Who knows, someone might be willing to cut someone else some slack instead of flaming them if it was clear that they somehow wandered into an unfamiliar area. If so that would tend to improve civility in these highly cross posted forums.

But I know, it is as it is. 

OTF Political, Religious, and Inflammatory Threads

AFAIC, this forum is still for GC2 game owners.

If i wanna get on Win_Customize, Joe_User, SosE, Elemental (or any OTHER forums supplied by SD)... i'll simply logon to these and type away.

You want a sense of community, troll around -- you may find some intelligent users if you're lucky. But don't come here, insulting me personnally or using smart remarks - cuz, you'll get exactly what you seek for.

The problem with attitude & flaming is not because of threads or subject matter, it's that ONE simple person can wreck a perfectly civilized conversation between members by behaving badly or unconstructively.

I ignored some often enough already. But when hypocrits, PM's moderators to attack my good reputation or to spread filty comments... it means war.

Excuse me while i go now to much more important issues such as THIS.

WOW! Someone is listening. This morning the 'Off Topic' section is gone from WinCustomize

Absolutely true. Keeping them seperate would benefit everyone.

good ridence!!

I would like to say this though:

If needing an example of Intelligent Design, I think Sins of a Solar Empire qualifies.

I would like fore Religious tolerance and Religious warfare to be key and/or optional components of the game. Is this considered inflammatory?

I think Global Warming is a political topic.   Personally I have no opinion about Stardock wanting to keep inflammatory/political/religious threads off the board--that's just what they want.   But if that's the case, Global Warming debate really doesn't belong here.

Mostly there is no "here" anymore at least if you're talking about the GalCiv2 site. Same pretty much with many of SD's other sites. Most are merely shells of former greatness. Take away the Off-topic forum and there would be nothing left except perhaps the Impulse and Personal Computing forums.

I used to make the same argument you're making now but with the decline of the GalCiv2 site it's pretty much this or nothing.

Edit: Snarky comment removed.

Uncanny, don't you think?  How one's first thought is often the best.

It is.

No more than the antropic principle, the uncertainty principle, or theories about the extinction of the dinosaurs.  It can, and probably should be discussed in a scientific matter.

Elemental should really have an *Extra* modular race of Nazi Zombies, and its default Sovereign should be the Undead and magical Von Lichtenhammer. (or some other appropriate name)