@Danny
Don't feel pressured to respond, I just want to make my intentions clear.
When I say "some topics should be deleted", what I mean is that they should be deleted when they violate site rules. Again "topics that just do not need to be posted" is a very broad category, and I can't even begin to imagine how the mods would try to enforce that, though I do know what kind of topics you are referring to.
Members leave, and usually when they do leave they mention something horrible about the off-topic section. This is undeniably a bad thing, and like you I would love to have that not happen.
From what I am seeing, this starts by someone posting a topic that someone else deems to be uninteresting or otherwise unfit. That then prompts a user to make a comment criticising the user who started the topic. This starts a conflict between the people who defend the post and those who are against the post.
In my mind there are two ways to solve this:
1: Prohibit members from posting topics that others may or may not consider to be uninteresting/unfit (how do you enforce that?).
2: Prohibit members from making disrespectful comments on topics that they personally dislike or find boring (pretty enforceable).
In my mind, solution #2 is better. But either one will probably work, and you seem to like solution #1. And so does @RCM442. I don't think restriction is practical or desirable but that's just me.
@LightsAreBright27
I think on Discord servers people are more likely to be nicer to each other because it is more of an instant short message type of platfrom rather than a forum. More like a conversation.
I hope you get better after your surgery. It is no picnic when there is complication from my right hip surgery that I had last December. I'm still recovering from that to this date.
Anywho, the doctor sent me to the ER because they had an ear-nose-throat doc on call.... i was sent home in like 4 hours after I had arrived whith a prescription for amoxicillin. that is all.