Quite disappointed to hear those types of threads are being stopped. I thought they were fantastic.
They were great places to vent or say say something that was on one's mind, be it a rant, a thought, a request, a statement, etc., without clogging up the forum page with a topic that may not have warranted its own thread.
i think we may start to see the number of "crap" threads rise (which is what this decision is apparently trying to prevent).
For someone like me who is hesitant to start threads, the random thought threads were a great middle road. Ask your question, present your issue. If it's interesting or worthwhile, it will get responses and generate discussion. If it's unimportant or lacks quality, it will be lost to the depths of the thread.
Again, pretty disappointed.
Unless there was massive outcry for these things to be put down - and you'd have to ask why there would be such outcry for the termination of a thread you can avoid entirely by simply not entering it - then I really don't see a constructive reason to end them.
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