Thinking about it I believe that if this forum had the usual front page category view when logging in then it wouldn't be a problem. Since all posts from all the sections show together on the front page it would probably cause the thread listing to become diluted if everyone started posting offtopic chat.

It would be nice to have something though for offtopic, it can help form a strong friendly community. Maybe as Naquadda mentioned separating it somehow, possibly by making one thread an off topic sticky and remove the lounge. Then all the fun and random unrelated stuff can be kept separate in one thread.

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