Please Read Office Outlaw Changelog

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March 4, 2026

• The "Bans & Notices" section has just been changed to "Banned Members".
• As such, we've also removed the automatic threads that are created when notices are issued. After trying this out, we realized that this in particular might be humiliating to existing members, which we don't want to do.
• Any existing notice threads have been soft deleted.
• There was an older suggestion by @Rem about whether or not mentoring is allowed here. We've come to a conclusion on this, which you can read more about here. The TOS and Trading Post rules have now been updated on this matter as well.
• Rule 2.12 has been added to the TOS.

2.12 Mentoring
Situations where a member wants to spend time teaching another member a skill or method are only permitted so long as it is not transactional. Paid mentoring services are not permitted on Office Outlaw.

 

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March 5 2026

There's a new prefix in all of The Saloon sections. It's called "Offbeat News".

Members tend to discuss politics here, and we wanted a way to categorise that without adding a "Politics" prefix. After all, we don't necessarily want to encourage just those specific discussions, but we do want to encourage members to share news in general. The Offbeat News prefix is general enough to capture all of those news-based discussions in a way that also conveys that it's not "SEO news" or "IM news" to those who are interested in those on-topic discussions.

We've also added prefixes to the Cryptocurrency section: Crypto News, Stablecoins, Altcoins, and NFTs. We'll be categorising existing threads through the day, but yeah, we finally have prefixes in that section.

Up next, we've added an "Algorithm Update" prefix to the SEO Discussions section. This isn't just for Google, but for any search engine that updates it's algorithm. There's also an SEO Tools prefix, this way you SEO guys don't need to use the Tools at the Forge section as a dumping ground for SEO Tools

Today's update is part of a larger one where we're going to reorganise the prefix feature across the forum and update subforums that don't have any prefixes.

 

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March 5 2026 Part 2

Okay, I wanted to do more of a quality of life update with the prefix feature, so here it is.

• The entire prefix feature has been alphabetized. This should make far more pleasant to select prefixes and easier to search for the ones you're looking for.
• The word for the Notice prefix has been changed to "Bulletin". We use "Notice" for the warnings system here so I figured this would be less confusing.
• The "Under Consideration" and "Under Investigation" prefixes have been changed to "Pending" and "Assessing" respectively in the Forum Feedback section.
• The SEO Tools prefix is now in the Tools At The Forge section. Any discussions on tools should go in this section.

As a member, there's nothing you need to remember with these changes. It's just meant to make it easier to use the forum. It also makes it easier for me to create, find, and update prefixes.

 

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March 6, 2026

There are just a few new prefixes today.

• "Managers" and "Co-Workers" prefixes in "Work Life"
• "Privacy" and "Security" prefixes in the "Privacy & Security" section.
• "Biz Ideas", "Biz News, and "Taxes" has been added to the Business section.