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[ShadesOfGrey]

Um, so sorry if I am just missing the answer and it has already been addressed.  Please point me in the correct direction if so (I have looked for it without success).  Did anything every come of the suggestion to add a "rants" section to the Off Topic section of the forum? There really seem to be a lot of these posts and they are all over the place on the board. Not that I want to encourage that behavior and have the forum turn into a place for that, quite the contrary actually, but it seems that people are ok with a bit of ranting here (non-excessive), and we do have child boards for good news and the like...

[Lisbeth]

I think it's been decided not to have a rants section.

On the original Ehell forum, it was thought that one of the problems with it was that there was too much ranting and venting, and people weren't responding with the sympathy the ranters wanted.  Sometimes the rants were justified, sometimes not, and often the posts had little or nothing to do with etiquette matters.

So I think there isn't going to be a rants section in this incarnation of the forum.

[ShadesOfGrey]

I totally agree, I do not want this to turn into a ranting forum...(even if the rants are etiquette related)

I guess I just see a lot of rants/vents on the board already, and personally I would rather see them treated like the "good news" or "meet and greet" topics, rather than ranting in an etiquette-related thread/section. 

I think we have different ideas on how to see that this doesnt become a rant/vent forum.  Of course, I defer to the moderators and those with more experience on the forum on this.

Thanks for the reply.

[Ehelldame]

This is not supposed to be a rant/vent forum per se.   To me, rants and vents tend to pull the forum down because they are often intrinsically negative posts in which the OP really isn't looking for any answer to a particular etiquette dilemma.  Rants and vents really belong as submissions to the Etiquettehell.com web site whereas the forum is more interactive for resolving or understanding situations. 

Therefore, having a specific folder for rants/vents would put us right back to situation of having the Boiler Room folder in the old forum which was eventually phased out.   I'm not intending on reviving the Boiler Room folder or anything similar to it and would appreciate people not posting rants purely for the sake of ranting. 

[ShadesOfGrey]

Thanks Ehelldame.  I understand.  I hope that people dont rant just to rant either!