I try and keep up with OOC boards, although sometimes in big group games it can be daunting, because I always feel like I have to read all the OOC stuff, and if there's tons of OOC posts when I join it may take me a while to even start looking at the OOC.  I should make a better practice of it though, and at least keep up from the time I join, in case there's any important stuff that gets mentioned.  I know in one game I'm in there's literally like 5,000 OOC posts, so I haven't read that board much!  Lol.