Improve things?
Surely the burden is on those who would delete threads to offer compelling reasons for their deletion. If we’re going to require that threads “improve things” in order for them to remain open, this is going to be a pretty sparse message board.
And improve what, exactly? What are the “things” that need improving?
There’s currently a thread in MPSIMS with the title “I just got an e-mail from someone with the first name of Candida.” And the sum content of the OP is as follows:
What does that improve? And yet it has 15 responses thus far, so some people clearly found it interesting enough to warrant a reply. Maybe it “improves” “things” for those people.
Ooh, ooh, can i play?
What if someone starts a post with just a random sequence of letters? And the succeeding posts have their own random sequence of letters that are not in any way related to the first random sequence of letters?
And what if the next person only used special characters? And made it a rule that everyone else only use special characters in their posts too?
And what if they all then started coloring their posts the same color as the board background, so you couldn’t even read them? How awful would that be?
:rolleyes:
Your silly worst-case doom-and-gloom scenario is silly.