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Originally Posted by Itse
I wanted to lift this out as a separate question from my own long post:
Why does that thread need to exist? This is a discussion forum between Calgary Flames fans. There is no discussion in that thread. There is nothing about that thread that is uniquely CP. It does not create connections between forum members the way pretty much every other thread on this forum does. That thread is not about communicating with each other, it's us passively looking at people completely unrelated to anything on this forum.
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Fine, but then you have to get rid of a lot of other popular threads, including the funny and cool picture thread, which contains so many more posts than the YLYL thread. I'm just going by the criteria you proposed about connecting and communicating with each other.
All in all, this isn't a forum for solving the world's problems, it's a forum for entertainment primarily. I enjoy the more intellectual posting in here, but sometimes this forum goes from fun to downright dour and miserable trying to police everyone's actions and thoughts. That's not what an open forum is about.
Choose the topics you want to contribute to, avoid those you do not want anything to do with. As long as you're not posting anything highly offensive or violates the forums rules, go for it. I get very wary of policing people's expression of thoughts and materials. Who are we to say what's appropriate or not for an open forum. Moderators have that power, and the owner decides what the guidelines are. We've all agreed to this format, so you're going to have to get comfortable with it as is. If there's a large outcry from the posting population (which there doesn't seem to be) then we can discuss whether we need to revise the rules.