trickybeck wrote:
On quick perusal, it seems a large percentage of the OOT posts are self-referential. Posts about OOT, posts about posting, posts about other posters. And I'm not just talking about today's brouhaha. It's a phase the Asylum went through for a while, too.
I don't think he is wrong. I think this may actually be the core problem of the OOT. Will self-referential posts and inside jokes we may it difficult for new posters, even the good ones, to break into the OOT. Too little content for discussion from external sources is posted, so we have to continually recycle internal content to survive, which leads to boredom and repetitiveness.
The OOT really has become a closed off society. Not just to new posters, but to outside information as well. Suggestions to remerge the media forum with the OOT should help, but I think posters need to start posting more threads where we're linking to some outside content.