Off Topic is an offshoot of Question of the week
When QOTW got going, the desire to win the QOTW got more and more competitive. In order to win, some people dredged out their deepest and darkest secrets. This inspired others to do the same. From this, a community started to grow. At first, the replies were posted as top-level answers, but some time in 2007, it became possible to reply to a QOTW post. By then, QOTW had become a means of Internet-based group psychotherapy where the shared secrets became a bond between the members. The participants were getting to know eachother better and the discussions were starting to deviate more and more from the actual Weekly Question. This post explains what QOTW had become for many.

On Wednesday 2 July 2008, Rob was getting fed up with these discussions filling the QOTW so he created QOTWOT as a means of containing them.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 2 Aug 2009, 12:56, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You forgot the bit that
it's all lies.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Sun 2 Aug 2009, 13:22, Reply)

Lies and autism
lie herein.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 2 Aug 2009, 18:17, Reply)

Crikey Spakka
you're the b3ta archivist!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sun 2 Aug 2009, 15:42, Reply)

Him and Woodside.
I swear they have a direct synaptic link to the search function.

Or they just spend all day saving links, in the hope that one day they will be relevant.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 2 Aug 2009, 19:13, Reply)