Sandbox

That technically sounds like Non-Runescape Discussion, which indeed is a form of sandbox/chat forum. All you would have to do is change the name and there you have it. xD

Honestly, I just don't think there is all that much interesting stuff going on right now. I mean, I could browse Drudge Report for 5 minutes and give you probably 10 different topics, but I don't think too many people are interested at the moment.

Oh, and Creepy...those were two bad examples in your post. First, Iron Maiden and I had about 6 of the 10 replies in his topic, which points out that basically its mostly two people interested and talking about something in a topic. As for your topic, it's about Runescape and last time I checked, this is a forum primarily focused on Runescape. Hence, of course you will get interest towards your topic since most people here play Runescape and are interested in talking about it. Not to mention Dungeoneering is one of the bigger topics in Runescape atm still. If anything, that continues to prove that there isn't much Non-Runescape related chatter going on and that we are missing some people that would otherwise contribute often to activity around here. Once summer hits, I think we'll have a little more interest and activity around here.

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That's right. Chat Forum/Sandbox/Whatever doesn't equal Non RS Discussion. Non RS Discussion is mean to be a place where people can have serious conversations and strong opinion about something. Chat Forum is bound to post without a real point. You post things for the heck of it. And you don't mind of people replies 'lmfao nice!' or 'rofl thats awesome!' because you posted a really funny picture/whatever. That's something you can't do in Non RS Discussion. And that's why Chat Forum =/= Non RS Discussion.

I don't know why I used to but I don't think that "there's RuneWire for that" should be brought up... because RSBANDB and Runewire are either separate, or they're not. It's not sometimes separate but sometimes the same.

Forums are for longer discussions. But this is also supposed to be a forum of friends, not a bunch of people thrown into debates to get to know each other through outside means. The every post count must be earned type thing kind of enforces that.

What are the reasons to not bring back or create a non strict forum? Honestly asking because the only one I know of is because of the issues of the past but viewing with hind sight I can't remember why treating access to it as a privilege was not an option. It's the kind of thing where a few people ruin it for everyone else, but at the same time it's one of those situations where it didn't have to be that way.

Remembering it (with nostalgia though) it was a fun place and the forums seemed to have more personality back then.

There are forums where they have the black hole forum as public (minus like porn) that also serves at a sandbox type forum without any rules (besides things like porn/adult) including no rules against flaming even and it's not like it doesn't work.

BRING IT BACK OR FEEL OUR WRATH. Not really I don't care much. Maiden4life (throwback LOL) said "one maybe two if you're lucky interesting topics created every 2-3 days"... I really don't know what he's talking about. Interesting topics? You'd be lucky to get a topic created every 2-3 days let alone a post. I do agree with the "dead season being all year long" point though becuase I've lost track when the activity is supposed to be down. "Its just dead at this time of year, when schools out it will go back up", and when schools finished "its just dead at this time of year because school is out and everyone is away from home now"... RSBANDB is just in a comma

And of oldies coming back, I don't really think so. Visit, make a "I'm back" post, make a sandboxesque post, gone for another year. Not critiquing (or is it? lol maybe) anyone but that's just how it happens most of the time.

Ultra true. In the end, it sounds like:

Autumn -> Dead because of school restarting
Winter -> Dead because of Christmas time
Spring -> Dead because of massive school exams
Summer -> Dead because of Holidays & everybody is out

Wtf. Seriously.
You're always saying the same thing over and over again and you call us paranoid when we say RSBANDB is dead. This is a reality, not fiction.

And I can't agree with oldies coming back. They make a post saying ''IM BACK!'', they stay 2-3 days and don't return until like 4 months and they remake a topic saying ''This time I'm back for real'' and they don't return until a good 2 years.

And I don't see why Sandbox was specifically THE place of flaming. I mean when I flame someone, I flame him whereever I feel like to. I flamed people on RS Discussion, Gaming, Graphic Central, Non Rs Discussion, RS Questions, Almost all of them. Did you have to remove all these in order to avoid flamming? No, you'd say it's stupid. Plus take note of this. Say there is 100 threads in sandbox. One or two of them might cause flaming. But there's still 99 or 98 of them that doesn't have any. If sandbox had flaming in it, it's because it was active. You don't see much flaming in Graphic Central for exemple, because nobody post there anymore. Or if you want a better exemple, in a city of 1 000 000 inhabitant, it has more chance of having more criminals rather than in a village of 1 000 people.

And I fail to see why you're always looking back at your past. It's been like 2-3 years that Sandbox was removed. People have changed, they don't remember anymore, they've forgot about it. They've got old and they don't care anymore. Plus, I find it ridiculous that you're always punishing EVERYONE just because of ONE person. You're like elementary school teachers that say ''If someone talk, everyone in the class stay after the bell.''
If you see that only a few person are always causing trouble, punish them with official warning rather than delete everything that doesn't please you. And that's what moderators are for. Cleaning topics. If you're always going to delete forums that cause trouble, I don't even see why you should have a moderator group. It's like having police in an abandonned city. It's useless.

Cannot agree. You use this phrase as a defense mechanism to deny the truth. Why do I say that? Because it's the only argument a staff member come up with. And when you're missing the point is when you say ''The Site still isn't dead''. BS.
Your whole idea itself doesn't make sense. I say you're saying this argument to deny the forums are dead. And you believe forums are alive, that's why you use this argument. It can't be both. There can't be two truths. And I strongly believe, harder than steel, that I am obviously right. And it's not only you, the Staff aswell. They all think the forum is on its downtime. They bury their problems and pretend they don't exist and hope things get better later. And if your next post will be all about saying what I wrote isn't true, you'll prove me right when I say you're ignoring problems.

Granted you have a few replies on your topics. But does it really equal back to the old days? I swear a 20+ replies topic back there was very common and you could see one of them every 2 days or so. Now half of time, when there is a high replied topic, it's because it's always the same two person replying back to each others. It's not 20 persons that have replied to your thread, it's the same two people that made 14 posts together. Take the Happy 4/20 Thread. Granted it has 23 replies at the moment. BUT more than half of them are from Warren and Duke Juker. More than half of the replies on your topic Royalest Wedding are from Trekkie and yourself. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but you can't say it's community active if it's only two people posting.

Face your own demons, RSBANDB. Face the truth and recognize you're losing it. Stop ignoring problems and solve them for God's sake.

Like I sad earlier, a "chat thread" in the general section can be good enough if you want a contained spam zone instead of the full sandbox. Many forums have some sort of spam there where their members and kick back, relax, and talk about things that don't really warrant a thread.