I am going to say no since the whole point of off topic in my opinion is that threads can go in wild directions. It makes it exciting at times. If people wanted to just post and talk about one thing, there is a reason you already have the specific sub-forums.

Honestly the old off topic did the exact same things. The only place i've seen these complaints is on BSN (unless you've had separate PM's here) and it just feels like a case of "my forum is better than yours" to me.

IMO, the forum sections are already more divided than I would like. I don't think splitting the OT into different sections would help. The onus is on the posters to contribute to the topic of threads they like, and if they post something compelling enough, others will will reply. The direction of the topic is driven by a combination of the OP and the most popular posts in a thread. Where the moderation team comes in is in situations where users are in violation, or at risk of violating the VSN rules. In a practical sense, this is when personal shitfighting starts and insults are exchanged between users.

From a personal perspective (and this is something I need to do more as well), I urge everyone to ignore personal back and forths. Continue on with posting in threads with the intent to contribute good discussion. Don't feed the trolls. It may require some extra effort to find good discussion points from before the time a thread gets derailed, but starving un-necessary conflict of oxygen is one way to ensure that it goes away over the long term. If you also feel that the posts go a step too far, you can also report them so that Vroom or Liam can exercise their judgement on the matter. This community isn't big enough to sustain additional segmentation, we probably need a way to attract more people coming here, or get the people already here to post more in order to diversify forum content. But I'd have no idea how to do either. In any case, no to splitting up the OT section further.

I'm glad I put it up for a vote and talked it out with the rest of the community instead of just implementing it, this makes me feel like it is a bad idea (I'm going to leave the poll up though, cause I promised that I'd raise the issue and leave it to a community vote).

whiled youre at it, we need a sports section

Here is my take on derailment. You can only talk about one subject for so long before it becomes stale which is when derailment happens. It's a good thing though since it keeps the thread alive, and it also eventually brings the threads original purpose back too when someone else joins in. It's an ebb and flow type of deal, so so saying no derailment would bring a swift blow of death to the forums faster then those few who complain because they lack the ability to adapt.

Sure that works.

That's actually a topic i've been meaning to bring up to Vroom due to some stuff in the confessions thread.

and here i was about to share my plans to rob a ice cream truck