I want to point out that my beautiful thread got filled up with awful animes while I was on vacation and I'm not happy about it.New end times baseless speculation: the admech finds a new, better fuel source for the astronomicon: animes and the 'people' who post them.
Umm, if this is about my post on Lolicron and Lofn, then I'm sorry. But just so you know, they really do feature in my big-eyes anime version of The End Times. XP
I rather take Robin's point of view about conversations. When I think of all the threads I've started, the ones that stayed on topic usually died in about twenty posts or less, and that was that. Then they fell into the endless abyss of pages beyond the first page and became lost. True, I'd get annoyed when my precious topics got derailed, but if it's a choice between thread death and off-topic tangents, I'd rather keep talking with all of my fellow 40fanatics.
I'd rather let a finished post die and keep talking with my fellow 40fanatics on new threads about relevant and interesting topics than have an otherwise interesting thread derailed by people's BS. I don't know how many interesting topics I've come in late on only to find it's been derailed by someone's self-absorbed attempt to make a meaningless point. I'm sure there are forums for all the other things people like to talk about.
Thanks to Nimsim's foresight that shouldn't be as much of a problem anymore (fingers crossed).