initially i thought restricting posting was a good idea, as it would contain the struggle session, not letting it interfere with the rest of the site. they did it but posting has slowed down considerably and you still have threads making it through the filter and comments about it in the megathread.
maybe restricting posts is still a good thing because it makes public opinion clearer? before you'd have threads with different opinions that were both highly upvoted and with comments in agreement, now people have to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas™ that is the announcement megathread.
initially i thought restricting posting was a good idea, as it would contain the struggle session, not letting it interfere with the rest of the site. they did it but posting has slowed down considerably and you still have threads making it through the filter and comments about it in the megathread.
maybe restricting posts is still a good thing because it makes public opinion clearer? before you'd have threads with different opinions that were both highly upvoted and with comments in agreement, now people have to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas™ that is the announcement megathread.
I mean it can be useful but not if the thread itself is also locked