Northern Attack + Forums

That’s right, folks: The Watercooler is now open for business. Several of you saw right through my attempt at a surprise, but hopefully that won’t stop you from checking it out. As far as discussion forums go, The Watercooler deviates a bit from standard convention. I wanted something consistent with the design aesthetic of Northern Attack: clean, simple, and lightweight, with a purposeful absence of banners competing for your attention. I can only hope that it meets your expectations. I offer my thanks to the hard-working people at Lussumo for making this possible with their wonderful software.

Before you continue, I ask that you take a few minutes to read the following guidelines concerning the forums.

• Don’t create discussion topics haphazardly.

  This is particularly important. Before you create a new discussion topic, please check to see if the topic already exists. I have created threads for each of the episodes and characters, as well as topics for the more popular types of discussions (media happenings, trivia games, quotes, plugging other Office sites, etc). Chances are a thread already exists for the topic you wish to discuss.

• Markdown is your friend.

  Markdown allows you to write and format text naturally without using HTML. It requires no action on your part to turn on (it’s enabled by default when you create your account) and is strongly recommended as the format of choice when posting comments.

• Posting in the blog versus posting in the forums

  This one is really up to you, though I suggest that you post your comments in the blog if they are in response to the content of my blog entry (i.e., you would like to respond to something I wrote in one of my recaps).

Enough jabbering from me. Go forth and discuss!