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I don't have much of an opinion about starting up a separate forum for serious discussion. What I would like to see is the possibility of carrying on open, honest, even light hearted discussion without the hijacking into complete silliness that happens far too often to threads.
I generally think that the person who posted the thread, beginning the dialogue, in some way "owns" the thread. If that person starts bantering with other members and interjects the silliness into their own thread, that's fine. It is when other people who do not have such a vested interest in the thread's original topic start interjecting irrelevant humor into the thread that I start to get concerned (and tune out). It is disrespectful to the original poster and to the other people who are carrying on the dialogue. This seems to be a common trend these days. I think it could easily be curtailed if the people who are doing this refrained from posting their blather.
BTW Thanks to Nate for reopening this thread. I was quite disappointed and angry when it was closed so abruptly.
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