This means there will no longer be any random chatter about... whatever around here. It's either about EPU product, or it's about the EPU website, or it's happening someplace else.

This forum was never intended to be a general community for Eyrie fans to talk about themselves and what they like, or the latest cool TV show, or what's coming out on DVD next week, or whatever. It's for discussion of Eyrie Productions, its products, its website, what it is, what it does. There seems to have been a certain diffusion of focus over the past couple of years, or maybe it's just that there's been an influx of new users and I've been remiss in pointing out to them what the Forum was supposed to be, out of some mistaken assumption that it'd be obvious.

So I'm trimming things down in an effort to get back on track. The General forum's gone; private-mail, which was an injoke from an old version of the GweepNet BBS, is gone. I'm leaving Introductions, for now, but if it turns into a "didn't know where to put this so... " dumping ground, it goes too. The Marketplace forum's also gone, because we're not here to sell things. You want to sell something, that's what eBay's for.

The new rule of thumb: If you can't figure out from the capsule descriptions of the existing forums where a post goes, chances are it doesn't go anywhere here.

I've revised the Forum AUP to reflect these changes and make everything a little more clear-cut.

If all that makes me, in your eyes, an attention-seeking Nazi who just wants people to pet him and talk about how wonderful his writings are, well, hey, you don't have to stick around. That is, in fact, not what I'm after, but lately it's seemed like all posters can do is either that or just wander off on random tangents about whatever happens to float past their mental window at that time. It's making a lot of angst and I've had enough, so I'm laying down the law. If you don't like that, there's the door.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/