[Troy F]

Hi everybody.

Titus, what everyone is trying to get across to you is that on other boards the lounge area is for off topic threads, ie. non-reef related. I can totally understand that you don't want all the b.s. that goes on at reefcentral's lounge but that does have something to do with the sheer size of their board. An off topic forum allows members to take full advantage of all the individual talents. For instance, Marko is a computer expert and Andrew is one of those shady insurance/snake oil salesman [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]. This is one of the great advantages of pulling our particular community together.

Your board has been the accellerant that has brought the local reefers together. It would be a real shame if we all got our skirts bunched up over this. I'm sure that this can be worked out without having members quitting.

Before this gets out of hand (and I have to send Marko around to everyone's house to give a cuff upside the head) why don't we at least listen to Titus' reason for not wanting an "all out" off topic forum. I'm sure you've all been to Reefcentral, Reef.org and Aqualink and have witnessed the overall lack of respect the ensues after certain subjects are breeched. Or maybe it is a lack of space on a hard drive somewhere. Could it be the more size we take up the more our board costs? I don't know just trying to keep this reasonable.