Opera, FYI, some time back a decision was made to keep things organized and focused on fishing, in particular, with the General Board. So, think of General as General Fishing Related. At the top of it, it reads,
"Feel free to talk about anything and everything to do with fishing in this board. Please post off-topic discussions in The Fisherman's Wharf."
That's why we created the off topic board so that non-fishing related discussion could continue freely. The problem was that during the early summer there was so much off topic discussion that you could hardly tell that it was a fishing site! We're just trying to make it better, that's all.
If you ever have any questions like this or anything else, feel free to IM or e-mail me if you don't feel like airing it out in public. I'll be happy to help. I'm sure that the other mods would do the same