I personally would have no issue with a lounge forum to cover a broader range of topics outside the scope of the art world as I think there would be members that for various reasons might not have family support or close friends they can discuss things with or might like to keep their private life outside of the real world, not that throwing it up on a forum is the most private way to go about things. However members might wish to discuss things like movies, weekend trip, that darn electricity company just shafted me........ or I am thinking about buying a car it would all be good. Probably my only concern would be the legalities of what the members mention or if someone did raise a personal issue and was ridiculed for it or given wrong advice since at times we are all including me "Self Proclaimed Councillors" and that can and has had devastating consequences. We only need to look to facebook, a few other forums and even the comments on YouTube to see how things can turn ugly, but here at Rendo the TOS would obviously apply. I can see what Kalypso means and why we don't have one currently but I don't think it should be off the table for consideration either, if we went for a fourth try there would have to be some ground rules emphasized although I believe they are already in place or it could be a full time job for a moderator or two 24/7 and lots of coffee.

- Johnny G

"Try animation to get things moving"

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