Originally Posted by
jaegerhund
In all honesty, when I first joined this forum (it being the first forum I had ever even looked at), I thought it was kind of odd and silly that an off-topic section was even available ---- I mean this is a straight razor shaving forum, why do you need an off-topic section?. But as I got to know the people here better, the off-topic section started to become a means of getting to know my friends better and that to me is its value. Forget the topics, forget the arguments, --- to me it's the meat of being a family or community ---that is, most friends spend time talking about things off-topic --otherwise, things stay in the realm of the professional and contrived.
I think either there should be an off-topic section or not --- please don't bring it back with some convoluted rule sytem that ruins the whole laissey-faire attitude of that section. Maybe we would be better without it --- but that doesn't say much about us.
Justin