Actually, talking about this stuff is a good thing.
As far as an OSS dedicated thread, that's ultimately up to the admin, but I'd guess that if enough people want to discuss the OSS than there should be a place for it. And given the fact that this site was initially created with a heavy slant toward CASCAR, its natural that there's lots of guys here that have an interest in the OSS. In no way would we try to stifle anyone from talking about the series just because of one loose screw.
Most of us here are racing people. Maybe not drivers or crew, but we understand the business. To try and stifle any discussion of the OSS, as well as being draconic, would be a travesty to all those teams, drivers, officials and fans that are trying to make the OSS work.
This site, for better or for worse, is all inclusive. We've opened forums for so many different tracks and series that its almost impossible to keep them all straight. I think we'll still have our OSS forum too. (Frankly we almost have to...the way the boards are set up now, if we didn't have a dedicated board, no one would be able to find the thread again once it slips off the top 10 list on the main page.)
Anyway, I might wait till closer to the beginning of the season, but I think we'll see an OSS forum yet. AutoAssembler is right. They
can't tell us we can't have an OSS forum.
In other notes, Duken brings up the PM system. All I can really add is that we may put an amendment on the CoC about abuse of PMs. As it stands, the PM system here is integral to what we, mods and admin, do. So it has to be active for us to use it.
Having said that, I feel the PM system is important for members to have dialog with one another, dialog that doesn't necessarily belong on the discussion boards. As we've said before, we really don't care if you swear in a PM, as long as you're not being abusive to other posters. In real life and in mixed company, you might huddle over in the corner to tell a dirty joke (unless you have no class) Thats what PMs are for. On the main board, the world is watching, so you have to behave accordingly.
The PM system is supposed to be used for just that, personal messages: The ones that are sometimes so annoying when they come up in the middle of a serious thread...they go something like "Hey so and so....haven't seen you in a while...how's the kids...give my love to Aunt Betty"
We frankly wish that the PM feature was used more often, so the Personal Message feature is likely going to stay.
As I've said though, we'll do up an amendment for the CoC, just so we're all clear what the rules are.
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