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Originally Posted by Flacolaco
Let's talk about this instead. This sounds like it needs a little exposition.
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general discussion threads stagnate the board.
they pull discussion out of otherwise active threads, and reduce some portion of the discussion group down to those few willing to slog through the other topics and the drivel in order to maintain some semblance of a discussion on any one topic. You end up with multiple overlapping threads in the same discussion that can't go as deep as they otherwise would, and include fewer posters than they otherwise would. That kind of posting is exactly what the invention of threaded discussions was supposed to correct.