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[AgnesIO]

Hmm, I think some of those are fine, like 'Do you like peanut butter' but I agree some of those like 'Which multiple choice option would you choose' are a bit.. hmm. It's a matter of opinion in some cases though, as @Kardan; said previously.

You think "Do you like peanut butter is fine?"? Would you still think that if I posted;

"Do you like jam?"
"Do you like cornflakes?"
"Do you like orange juice?"
"Do you like coffee?"
"Do you like tea?"

And so on, and so on?

[MKR&*42]

I think asking people what their favourite brand of peanut butter (for example) is fine, but not whether they simply like/dislike it. 'Cause you can only really end up with 2 responses.

[Zelda]

Tbh with that one surely it would be more appropriate to ask broader if you wanted some convo topic such as like what do you like to eat and drink for breakfast so at least it brings all those topics in together and perhaps allows a bit of discussion about other people's views on that stuff lmfao. personalyl think do you like peanut butter on it's own is a bit silly though.

Somethign that is true sorta though is a lot of these threads do have a lot of potential to make constructive conversation, example being the thread on shades of blue, though it coulda ended up as 1 words by discussing it you can actually make it into something more really and to label a thread like that might not always be true for some unless they really don't allow for more then 1 word answers.

[Kardan]

I think anything that promotes short answers, such as 'Yes', 'No', 'That's nice!', 'Lol' etc. should be included. This includes posts with just images (Post any image, Post your desktop, Post your headphones etc.), but not PAPOY because there is discussion in there for example.

Generally, most 'Post your'... things fall into that.

But I'm not sure what a new sub-forum would do, because isn't that exactly what assorted/misc did, and people complained when all those threads died...? As much as I would prefer some sort of sub-forum to come back for these 'pointless' threads, we are going back on ourselves, aren't we? (And then surely we risk overriding this decision in the future?)

Problem is, we all have definitions of pointless threads.

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I guess one thing that could be used as a guideline, is if all the people that are replying are generally posting short answers and not many people are quoting other people (thereby creating discussion).

[David]

I think anything that promotes short answers, such as 'Yes', 'No', 'That's nice!', 'Lol' etc. should be included.

better move the whole of the graphics forum then

[Kardan]

better move the whole of the graphics forum then

I do think that parts of the 'CC' rule should be amongst the whole of the graphics forum, rather than just the threads labelled with CC.

'That's lovely, I love the way you've captured the emotion in that woman's high five!' is a lot better than 'Nice pic bro', and I've seen many people in the past (Well, usually the same person just doing it many times really) posting these generic comments in graphics

But as I said, everyone has their own opinion, and I guess I would be more on the strict side really.

[Mr-Trainor]

I never understood that graphics rule tbh, what's wrong with saying you like it?

[Kardan]

I never understood that graphics rule tbh, what's wrong with saying you like it?

Doesn't really contribute to 'discussion', although that rule hasn't been enforced in years.
Also, it stops people going through the whole of the graphics forum, replying 'That's nice' to each thread.

[David]

I never understood that graphics rule tbh, what's wrong with saying you like it?

because some people want to improve and get criticism, not just get told it's nice when most of the time it's really not.

[Mr-Trainor]

because some people want to improve and get criticism, not just get told it's nice when most of the time it's really not.

I like people saying my work is good.. Surely everyone does ?