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  • #16
    Good idea.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by Ming
      5 or 6 threads doesn't justify a new forum...
      At the moment, it's 11
      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
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      • #18
        And next week it'll be one or two again. So what.
        Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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        • #19
          Well, let me try to make the case...
          There has been a constant number of tech treads cropping up. Yes, the go away, but new ones take their place.

          Alva said that the reason that there is no tech forum is the number of other related sites. With Apolyton you know the advice you're getting is good (usually ) and you won't just be screamed at to RTFM!!11!. Also, many of the other forums are topic-specific and the members don't enjoy answering questions that seem very simple (to them) or very common.

          Alright, poster has responded. Close thread
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          • #20
            Alva: It would have been funnier if you had quoted FP's "Well that was just asking for trouble, wasn't it?" post.
            I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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            • #21
              Tech threads are alright but if you want a tech forum maybe a trip to a tech site would be in order.

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              • #22
                I honestly don't see the use for such a forum. This place is mainly for games right?
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                • #23
                  Tech forum would be a bad idea. It'd divert attention from the OTF, which is bad. The OTF survives at all costs.
                  meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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                  • #24
                    Just the one OT forum will be fine thanks
                    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Nikolai
                      I honestly don't see the use for such a forum. This place is mainly for games right?
                      Mainly indeed, and there is nothing wrong with branching out
                      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                      Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                      • #26
                        The problem with branching out is the one we've been running into, size. A site that branches out more gathers more activity. This is good, up to a point. Any further branching is bad.
                        American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
                        I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
                        Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
                        XGalaga.

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                        • #28
                          Ah, what do you guys mean by "tech thread," anyway? If you're referring to those polls asking you to rate your computer's processor/CD-ROM/soundcard/porn cache, I say the less of those the better, and those are the only ones I can see in the first few pages of the OT.
                          Anyway, the point of a new forum would ostensibly be to keep posts on the new topic from detracting from the general direction of the board, and the OT doesn't have a general direction. By definition it's Apolyton's inanity midden.
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                          • #29
                            Elok: I don't mean those. I didn't even know about them when I posted this tread. I meant tech questions, witch I've been seeing a lot of recently.
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                            • #30
                              Originally posted by Asher
                              A tech forum with postcounts is the way to go.
                              Yup.

                              Good for MS bashing.
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