General Discussion

General Discussion (often abbreviated as GD) is a general "free-for-all" forum on Gaia Online. Defined by Zahir, General Discussion is seperated into its component parts: General "being stuff that doesn't already have a forum or subforum dedicated to it and Discussion being "discussable content."

Detailed Rules
These detailed rules are from the How To Post In GD sticky. It is noted that these guidelines for posting are not set in stone for GD.


 * The main intent of a thread posted in GD should be to provoke discussion and conversation.


 * Venting about That Person Who Like Totally Pissed Me Off Today and how they're like mondo annoying, or telling a rambly little story about A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forums is generally de jure not permitted in the GD Forums and tends to be posted in one's Gaia Journal.


 * The discussion should be more-or-less self-evident. Summaries of the discussible content tend to be tacked on the end of a post, but it is not mandatory to the forums. Such a procedure must however be pertinent to the body of the post; talking about donuts and then tacking on "Discuss: cheese" is usually not permitted.


 * The word "Discuss" does not automatically render one's thread fit for GD. The thread should be discussion oriented and give an indication of direction of discussion you're going for. For instance: "I hate [topic]. Discuss." is not permetted; it leaves little to discussion, and would be better posted in one's journal.


 * Threads composed of a poll, and/or a single question with a one-word answer are not discussion.


 * Repeated attempts to get around these rules by tacking on questions or discuss tags will get one warned and eventually banned.

Prommies
The term prommie is typically only used in the General Discussion forum. It stems from the word "prominent" and most commonly refers to those who are popular and well-known.

Sub-Forums of General Discussion

 * Word Games and Others Forum - A forum for word games, countdowns, and other similar activities.
 * Life Issues Forum - A forum to talk about serious problems in your life or give others some advice here.