Okay everybody,

Here it is! We promised you we would look into an off-topic area and we have delivered a product. It may need tweaking over the next few days or weeks, so we ask for your understanding if we have to make minor changes.

I ask that everyone read the Lido Deck Rules before you make your first post here.

That is about it. Have fun, and we hope that this provides an outlet for your random posts and that they stop showing up in cruise-related threads <hint hint>.

Let the good times roll.

Are you guys going to sift through the "general cruise chat" forum and move threads to this location.

No, drlivingston, that would be simply too much work for us to handle.

However, it should be noted that any future threads that veer too far off-topic may indeed get moved here. We're just not making this a retroactive thing, that's all.

Hello everybody,

and to add to what Ryan wrote, please try to keep threads outside of this section "on track". It is obvious that in recent weeks, some users tried to intentionally steer threads "off track". Obvious incidents of that kind will be subject to official warnings or bans in the future.

Please do not "hijack" threads in other sections of Cruise-Chat.com and turn them into nonsense. Discussions get off-topic from time to time, and that's not a problem. Obvious hijackings however will no longer be tolerated now that we're having an off-topic section. Please do keep that in mind and thanks for your kind understanding!