"That's what the old Virtual Tavern forum was supposed to be. Unfortunately, fights were always breaking out in the bar."

Not true -- at least during the time I used to visit. The VT got chopped at the same time as the old OT forum (in which fights were always breaking out), and I suspect that the reason was that the PTB thought that the OT crowd would just move over to the VT if they didn't can that as well. However, the VT was almost always civilised, good-humoured, and well-moderated by kbennet.

I don't hang around much on any of the forums here now, though; no fun anymore.

Whats the hell's On Topic in a Community Forum, anyway?

m ;)