Quote Originally Posted by Skullheadhq View Post
Oh, didn't know that. We at the Romaioktonoi are not an exclusive, elite club. Everybody can join, and write his poems (nothing more hellenistic then poems ;), nevermind) and I'm sorry if some people feel like they are not part of it. As it isn't the purpose of the Romaioktonioi. Everyone that feels like they are not part of the Rhomaioktonoi, join us, it's great!
While I could imagine something like this could be fun in one AAR. Remember the wastelands? That was one funny AAR. But if we'd take the jokes from that AAR and keep reusing them at every possible occasion. Well that would be the end of it. Currently it used as an excuse or an inspiration for derailing threads, or just spam. It's not just that it isn't funny anymore, it's rather annoying. Especially for those who could spend more time working on EB, instead of deleting spam.
Note of course it's not just the Romaioktonoi. But it is part of it. And we don't mind the occasional off topic thread, or the occasional thread that goes off topic. But the conversation has to make sense, and not be a random collection of one sentence posts. I remember we had a beer thread long, long ago. While it wasn't about EB, the conversation was interesting. Noone had a problem with it. Then again it was also one of the very few off topic threads.
We can also understand that you guys can't talk about EB 24/7. But you have the tavern social group and of course the other sub forums as well here. And not to forget that there's a pm system and profile pages. All accessable by you and the freinds you made here. Personally I've posted off topic posts as well, my contributions usually don't have several paragraphs either,... But we ain't expecting you guys to post academic papers only. No, just keep it friendly, let's try to keep on topic most of the time, and let us have a decent standard level of conversation. Let's stop the in before the lock, useless spam (that gets deleted anyway) and were all happy.

I just can't see why anyone wants to risk a temporary or indefinate ban from the forum, just for some plain sillyness?