(Bolding is mine), I just thought it was interesting how many posts could not follow the simple instructions of the OP at all:
Hey, now. I did, in fact, reply with “there’s no traditional video rental place near me (near western suburbs of Chicago) anymore;” I did then further expound on my reply with what I did find, which, you’re right, was not what the OP was asking about.
I certainly complied - I have no memories of the Family Video that closed, since I’ve never been in the place. I just noticed it was closed when I drove by yesterday; your question was a week too late! Your indulgence is appreciated.
The thread title asks a yes-or-no question. I was just elaborating on my “no.”
What? I just said there isn’t one and family video was the last. What are you talking about? We can’t elaborate?
As did I – and I answered the question.
I love the outrage all the perpetrators of failure to read the first three sentences of the OP are expressing. 
I Googled my city and video rental. The only non-redbox listed is the nastiest, metal Quonset hut of an “adult” store. It’s in the worst part town, next to the railroad tracks in an industrial area. They apparently rent DVD’s but I’m not going to verify that myself.
I was thinking the same.
I knew that given the state of the video store business, closed stores vastly outnumber stores still in business. So I figured closed video stores could become the default topic of the thread unless I made some effort to keep things focused.
All of us who replied to you stated variations of “Dude, we did answer the OP, and then expanded on what we do still have in the area.”
If you want to be a junior mod about the OP, please start flagging posts instead.
I’m not junior modding, I just have noticed this phenomenon happens in almost every poll type thread. OP will post a question, then clarify some specific things they ARE NOT looking for as responses, invariably people respond with exactly that. For example, OP here said “I’m not looking for stories about closed stores”, and…a bunch of you just couldn’t help but…share stories about closed stores.
Well, but, we’re largely here on a fun or elective basis. Does adding something the OP didn’t request demonstrate an inability to follow instructions? Or does it merely fit with our motivations in having this grand online conversation? The latter, I think. After all, OPs can hardly prohibit things.
This conversation had run its natural course in the original thread and I will not participate in this one as there was nothing further to discuss about what was a simple aside and 5-6 people crying about it.
That’s right! Original OP asked a simple Yes-or-No question, and only single-word “Yes” or “No” posts may be permitted for the rest of that thread! (Plus a few random punctuation marks because of the 5-character minimum.) Anything more than that in a post will be subject to Junior Modding or maybe even Senior Modding! We must always follow OP’s instructions to the letter lest this wonderful message board degrade into meaningless word salad! Especially in MPSIMS!
Obligatory /s here.
(ETA: Word salad should be confined to Cafe Society.)
And there was that other thread in which the OP asks for “Story Songs”, specifically and explicitly excluding Alice’s Restaurant. Need it be said that the first reply mentioned Alice’s Restaurant? Ban him! Burn him! Send him to the Group W bench!
That is sad, but I’ve done it myself. Especially when I’m reading and replying by phone.
Hey, I just checked, that one was clearly done as a joke.
I believe most people on this board are interested in having conversations and not just giving clinical or binary answers to the OP.
Otherwise the only responses necessary to the thread would have just been a bunch of “yes’s” and “No’s”.
How boring is that?
I remember when I used to go to Blockbuster Video, but they’re closed now.
Agree. Threads should be treated like jazz rather than classical; they should be freeflowing and welcome improvisation. They should not be rigid.
So, you’re saying that on a discussion board, people discuss?