Ju Ju Master wrote:
Me, also in the mod forum wrote:
(In response to RT being deleted) Drama's gonna go somewhere. if there's no RT, it'll just go somewhere else, like it does when RT gets locked.
True, but there's going to be a difference. RT has become so critical to every user here that once something goes down there, things seem to grind to a halt. It's by far our biggest and most posted in thread, and I'm willing to bet it's also the most read. A lot of discussion goes on in that thread, and a lot of discussion that could be had in other threads are diverted into that one.
In the current state of the forum, if there is drama in RT, the whole forum stops to deal with it. I think if RT was deleted and the other threads became populous again, then if drama erupted in one, discussion could still possibly be going on in other threads, undisturbed.
This is kind of hard to explain...mind if I try an analogy? Say you go apple picking and have a lot of baskets. Now say once you're done, you put 75% of your apples in one basket, and the other 25% in the rest of them. On the way home, your 75% basket breaks and all your apples fall out. You've still got the 25% of good ones, but now you have to spend a lot of time picking up the now tainted apples off of the road. You also have to tell Random Man #1, 2, 3, and 4 why you're picking them all up. You're stuck with 75% bad apples that could cause problems later if you want to put them in a pie or whatever (see now how analogies suck). Now, instead, say you put 25% in each basket, and the same thing happens. You have to spend less time picking up the bad apples, and you have 75% good apples still going strong.
BASICALLY: What we're doing is putting all our apples in one basket [putting all discussion in one thread]. Every time it breaks [drama], we're worse off because we lose almost all our "apples" [it grinds everything to a halt and there's bad blood still festering]. If we decided to get rid of RT and spread out discussion, then if we had drama in one thread, it wouldn't be as bad.
That's kind of what I think would happen. Hope that helped, but it probably didn't.
Of course, this is all me right here. If you guys think it'd be all right sticking around, then go for it.