# Maybe we need a new forum **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 13, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-need-a-new-forum/543049 "2010-06-13T22:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-need-a-new-forum/543049/57 "2010-06-14T20:08:08Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > What are the benefits to a rule like this? What would be the limits? > > You’ve asked the mods why not have these threads several times. My question to you would be, why have them? How does it improve things? 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: > [@I just got an e-mail from someone with the first name of Candida](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-an-e-mail-from-someone-with-the-first-name-of-candida/543152/1): > > Yes, like the yeast infection. > > _shudder_ 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. > [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > When does a post rise to the level of discussion? Could an OP start with one word with succeeding posts all having one word that’s not in any way related to the first word and be allowed? If there were several of these, potentially started by the same person, that went on for a while, would that be reason to close the thread? If so, where’s the line? 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-need-a-new-forum/543049)._