Off topic is full of trash - What led to the downfall?

There used to be a time when the iff topic used to be everyone's favourite.
Lovely threads, genuinely good threads, threads full of classy humour, hilarious memes, and even a few threads which taught us a few life lessons.
But now, as I scroll through the off topic, it's pretty disappointing. 10-15 threads on the same topics every week, political debates, religious arguments, people creating useless posts, useless replies like idk which are completely unrelated to the topic,only arguments and hatred, no real signs of one community which used to exist a few years back.
Where did it all go wrong? And how do we bring back the good old days?
Feel fre to give your valuable tips.

Idk, I don't really remember.

When I first saw the Off-Topic forums for the first time, it was filled with interesting and good topics. Now, at the time of this post, it's filled with religious (Allah vs Thor and other similar nonsense, I even experimented on one and you witnessed the result) and political (Palestine vs Israel, Ukraine vs Russia, Trump, etc.) topics. I missed the times where I could post some interesting sentences to be really analysed deeply the meaning of it by an English teacher, like some philosophical stuff.

Example: What are the different eras of chess and what are the difference between them?
My answer: The bigger the number of the year, the smaller the numbers in the clocks.

I want this type of topic to come back, so I could bring up cool proverbs and replies like above not heated debates about serious topics, but topics as interesting as hypermodern chess era like in the example.

About the way to come back to the old days, I think we need to make multiple topics about interesting questions at once, so one of them gets active and becomes a trend on Off-Topic people will like more than debates.

It is becoming more like C.com in that nonsense threads and posts are left without moderation and censorship. Before anyone starts in with "censorship = evil authoritarian oppression", a private entity needs to control what comes in the door as well as their product going out. I see no problem with some lighthearted banter, and i occasionally engage it myself, but it is a chess site first and foremost. I hope it remains so.

There’s one website I know of that forbids all political/religious debates in their forums, and what do you know, they all get along real nice. And no one even accuses the mods or the game of censorship.

@LordSupremeChess said in #5:
> There’s one website I know of that forbids all political/religious debates in their forums, and what do you know, they all get along real nice. And no one even accuses the mods or the game of censorship.
What is it?

'State of the Off Topic' arguments are by their nature subjective.

@WassimBerbar said in #3:
> When I first saw the Off-Topic forums for the first time, it was filled with interesting and good topics. Now, at the time of this post, it's filled with religious (Allah vs Thor and other similar nonsense, I even experimented on one and you witnessed the result) and political (Palestine vs Israel, Ukraine vs Russia, Trump, etc.) topics. I missed the times where I could post some interesting sentences to be really analysed deeply the meaning of it by an English teacher, like some philosophical stuff.
>
> Example: What are the different eras of chess and what are the difference between them?
> My answer: The bigger the number of the year, the smaller the numbers in the clocks.
>
> I want this type of topic to come back, so I could bring up cool proverbs and replies like above not heated debates about serious topics, but topics as interesting as hypermodern chess era like in the example.
>
> About the way to come back to the old days, I think we need to make multiple topics about interesting questions at once, so one of them gets active and becomes a trend on Off-Topic people will like more than debates.

Indeed, i would like to see more topic about philosophy or sciences.

#7

Its been a minute since one of the J Jonah Jameson types chomped down on their cigar and remarked, "there shouldn't be an Off Topic - this is a chess website!

@clousems

people making "Ask me Anything" threads, repetitively.