P.S. Don't forget books.

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What does it all mean?

two thumbs up..

computers and technology is too limited imho, too much of a nerd room

media room is much much much better!

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One thing, though: don't include pics - that'll open the floodgates to porn posting.....so imagine my toothbrush thread in this forum. Bad idea. Keep pics to off topic.

Another idea.....I have a concern about the continued fragmenting of Off Topic. For two reasons: 1) this is the Shroomery, after all, so there shouldn't be an assload of non-shroom related forums. Assload, of course, is up to each individual to define. 2) Off Topic actually does serve a role, that of the community type atmosphere.....and the more interesting things that are divided away from it, the more it lives up to its stereotype of just useless blather and spam.

I guess we just need to think about whether we should divide culture/media reviews and discussions away from off topic. This could include movies, music, books, etc. Although where do you draw the line? Would something like the Napster conversation be a part of this forum, or still off topic?

And should we be strict in 'enforcing' that? As in, having an active Off Topic moderator who moved music and other stuff to this forum?

Just some thoughts to chew on...

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Listen to Captain Jack
http://www.captainjackmusic.com/
http://www.mp3.com/captainjack99/

What I envision the Media forum to be is a place where if you are thinking of going to see a movie, you could run a search and find out what other Shroomerites have thought of the movie. Another idea that this brings up is that of a "Shroomery Book Club." People who have read the same book could discuss different aspects of it.

OTD is just too big for these things to occur. However, if someone is interested in getting a large amount of responses right away and then having their thread disappear into the millions of threads that exist in OTD, that should be their right.

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my celery stalks at night

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at the moment Off Topic
is so busy it
doesn't load even 3 days
of posts per page

it could benefit from some posts being channeled to another forum instead

a lot of quality posts about books, music, art etc. dissappear easily off the list

but by its nature this stuff
seems to me
on average worth
at least a look

Media Room!

as far as porn goes i would
suggest links labeled as "porn"
should be permitted
if not actual uploads

how about a 1 month trial?

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Ythan [ ythan@shroomery.org ]
Founder of The Shroomery