Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on November 08, 2001 at 17:03:48:
In Reply to: Should the board allow off topic discussion? posted by BHitman on November 08, 2001 at 16:52:52:
I understand where you're coming from... but it's Kevin's place to shake up as he likes.
Looking back on the old boards, though? It does hearten me a bit to realize that as much shit as the few of us who were sticklers got for BEING sticklers... we really were, on the balance, keeping things together and flowing... and that as much as people were saying "Oh, you assholes board-copping are what's CLOGGING the board!"?
It was honestly the bulk of the too-cool-for-school cynical assholes bashing us for trying to hold order that was clogging the board and largely negating the benefits of topicality, not our attempts to maintain it.
Which makes it all feel a little bit better, in retrospect.
Mike