Politics was taboo then. And tho it was before my time, it was as far as I can tell, a golden age. From a trolling/shit posting perspective, rules just make shenanigans that much better. I for one am not giving up on offtopic. I want this to be the dawn of a new age that will give us this generation's porch day and clockman. All we need is a little more imagination, and a little less toxicity to build for ourselves a new empire more glorious than the last.
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The Flood had some of the strictest rules of any forum I went to-- "no politics/religion" was the tip of the iceberg. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203213919/http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27309386]Here are the forum rules from 10ish years ago.[/url] Some blasts from the past: - no epic phail - no care cup - no leetspeak - no CoD4 vs Halo - no blogposting I think those rules did make discussion better, and these new ones are a good idea, though FWIW I also think the internet (including here) is a far kinder place today than it was 10 years ago.