I actually wanted to bring this up once, but I knew the admins would have some bad excuses, like "it's uncontrollable" or "it takes up too much space" (this one is very popular here). Oh and, #NiffChat is NOT an Off-Topic board. You can post about a funny YT video there, or a celebrity or music or SOMETHING, but it's a chat! If you want to write anything longer than 3 sentences, you need a board, and not a chat.
Oh and, I just noticed LPChip said that this forum used to have an Off-Topic board, but a lot of people were active there and it "took away the point of gaming" or whatever. So, this is not even an excuse, this is simply saying "NO YOU'RE NOT GETTING A FORUM FOR GENERAL CHATTING BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO STICK TO GAMING TOPICS SO SHUT UP AND BE HAPPY.". They want us to stick to a specific set of topics. I've never seen any forum do that.
EDIT: Let me a elaborate a bit on this. Sure, every forum was made for a specific purpose (movies, gaming, books etc.) but what if you don't want to talk only about that? That's why the Off-Topic board is there. Obviously, the admins want us to chat about only the thing this forum was made for, and some other random stuff they threw in. I'm not trying to say the admins suck, they're actually much better than some other ones I've met.
Oh and, if the "takes up space" excuse is used once more, I'll gladly post a list of what exactly on this forum is a waste of space.
If anyone wants to send me hate mail and/or death threats, my email is webmaster@microsoft.com.
Thank you and good night.
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