Agree
I'm sorry, I totally agree with FXcellent. It's very frustrating to open thread after thread trying to find FX related talk, only to find the thread is about J.Lo, music, firearms, Australia, dogs and cats living together.
Besides the off-putting FA forum, this is the best FX site on the web, and, more importantly, there are dozens of other sites for odd-topic stories and commentary. When a new user comes to this site, they probably read the forum with the most posts, which is "Chat" by a landslide .. they find a 30/70% mix of off/on topic posts, and that just can't be good.
Not that it's terrible that this community discuss off-topic items .. but since happens in the forum with the largest # of posts, it really dilutes the direction.
So, what I'd suggest, is changing "General Chat" to "General FX Chat" and create a new forum "Off-Topic" and move OT threads there.
Wouldn't that make everyone happy? The argument that we need a place to talk about OT items would go away, and the folks that just want to talk about the FX would be happy. Right?