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> Well, I think that the purpose of this message forum is just to amuse all of those who use it and take their minds of evil things in the world such as homework. That being said, I guess that off-topic would be anything that is not amusing, not questioning, not leading to any additional comments, not silly, and contains basically no content. This means that the only thing that would be off topic would be completely blank page. This, however, is against forum policy.

Hrm. Well, I know that when I go to say a computer forum or something (as I have done many times) it's generally to get help on a specific topic. I don't talk about smarties, and would likely get shot down for trying to. Most boards have at least some stated purpose... I can't find that for the RinkForum.

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> -Ka"And maybe somewhere in the site there'll be something that will answer the great question of what this forum was originally designed for but I have no idea where to find it"z!

Well, the Site Journal entry for August 19, 1998 (the day the forum opened, though to a weird set of circumstances the journal talks about how it'll open in the next few days) just says it's for us to "communicate better" and "make the site more interactive". So maybe there was no purpose from the beginning. Weird. As an aside, I originally expected this board to fail horribly, and am quite glad to have been proven wrong.

Stephen