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The forum on Gamerdisclaimer is in basis a small community. It is an important part of the site, particularly for the regular users. While the site has over 25000 registered users, there are in essence only a few regular users that form the core group. A vast majority of the registered users have not post in the forum at all, and many users have posted only a few times. The group of regular users change over time as some users leave, and some new users join. The regular users, as it is a small group, generally know most of the other regulars on the forum.

History

Old Forum

New Forum

Informations on the Forum

The Users

The community of Gamerdisclaimer is diverse. Members of the forum are of different countries of origin and of different cultural backgrounds. In addition, there are member of a diverse range of age on the forum.

Contents and Threads

As with the community, there is a vast selection of different contents and threads. The sub-forum organize the threads by their topic. Users must choose the appropriate sub-forum when creating a new thread. The contents of the forum include discussions about the forum and Murloc RPG, together with discussions and debates about a vast amount of other aspects. In addition, there are roleplays, stories, forum games and contests.

Categories and Sub forums

The Gamerdisclaimer forum is divided into six categories and 24 sub-forums. Even though the forum page place Media and Games as one category, they are in fact two seperate categories. The category and sub-forum system create a method of organizing threads of different topics. While the sub-forum system has been in place since the beginning, it had been changing. New sub-forums were created and obsolete sub-forums were deleted.(need verification) The category system, on the other hand, was input when the forum was changed.

General Category

See main article.

The general category includes the sub-forum of News, Rules and FAQs, Introductions, and General Talk. New members should read the the rules and FAQs, and if wished, they may introduce themselves in the Introduction Sub-forum. The News sub-forum contains news mainly about Murloc RPG and the forum, though some are outdated. And the General Talk Sub-forum contains a large variety of topics that is nearly undefinable.

Releases Category

See main article.

The Releases Category includes forums about any games released by Gamerdisclaimer. Currently, it includes only one sub-forum, the Murloc RPG sub-forum. The Murloc RPG forum have the highest post count of all the sub-forums, numbering over 41000. It include numerous questions, FAQs, discussions, and suggestions for Murloc RPG.

Off-topic Category

See main article.

The Off-topic Category currently stands with the most post counts. It includes four sub-forums. This category is the most varied category, and includes the sub-forums of Serious Talk, Forum Games and Contests, Roleplaying and Prose Club, and the Spam Junkyard. The Off-topic forum do not have a single summarizing topic that clearly defines itself. Off-topic in this case is a misnomer. Nearly every sub-forum, whether in the Off-topic Category or not, does not have to be completely related to Gamerdisclaimers.

Each of the sub-forums are different, making the Off-topic Category diverse. Serious talk includes philosophical and religious topics, in addition to a range of debates and discussion. In the Forum Games and Contests Sub-forum, games or contests are posted in which registered users can participate on the forum. The Roleplaying and Prose Club includes different kinds of forum role-playing games, in addition to literatures such as stories and poems made by users. Furthermore, it provides a forum for guilds. Finally, the Spam Junkyard is a specialized sub-forum in which inactive threads are regularly deleted and the no-spamming rule is not present. Thus it allow users to talk about off-topic, ridiculous or extremely unimportant issues, or just spam out-right. However, inappropriate contents are not allowed as in every other sub-forum, and some others rules are still present.

Development Category

See main article.

The Development Category have four sub-forums, which are Projects, Actionscript, Art/Graphics and Other Tutorials.

Media Category

See main article.

The Media Category include the sub-forums of TV / Movies / Anime, Music, Animations, Flash / Others and Comics / Manga / Books.

Games Category

See main article.

The Games Category includes sub-forums that discuss about different kinds of games that were not released by Gamerdisclaimer. It includes seven sub-forums, which includes PC Gaming, Nintendo Wii, GameCube and Microsoft Xbox 360, Xbox. In addition, it also contains the sub-forum of Sony PS3, PS2, Handhelds DS, PSP, Others, Flash / Web-based and Retro and Others.

See also

• Staff Members
• Threads Hall of Fame
• Users Hall of Fame
• Newsletter archive