Out of character
OOC, short for "out of character," refers to any comments that are not specifically role-playing in nature. In other words, it is what you the player are saying and not what your character is doing. The general discussion forums are OOC forums.
If you would like to make an OOC comment in an IC thread, you can do so by encircling your comments in two parenthesis like this:
(( This was a good thread. Thank you! ))
Alternatively, you can also use the OOC button above the posting area. This will automatically put the [ooc] tags around your statement and make it appear in a special out-of-character box. You can also manually type the tag like this:
[ooc]This was a good thread. Thank you![/ooc]