[CornFed]

I have an idea.  Perhaps we could have a single thread dedicated to Stanford football and a separate thread solely dedicated to all issues related to women's basketball, and a separate thread dedicated to everything about women's volleyball, and a separate thread focusing exclusively on SF Bay Area professional sports, and a separate thread which picks up each new development about graphene (oh yeah.  We already have that).

Thread clutter will be self correcting.  If threads aren't drawing replies, they will fade away pretty quickly.  If the prediction thread is falling to the second sheet, maybe there is not strong enough interest, or if there is and it is nonetheless being foisted onto the second page, is it just too much trouble to click "Next"?

I, too, am frustrated at the rush to jump to the front of the parade with all our pent up frustrations about David Shaw's inability to be Jim Harbaugh, or to recruit worth spit, or to keep from throwing everybody under the bus.  But who cares?  Apparently, I am not as perfectly efficient with my time management as all of you and the extra clicking does not cause me undue duress.  And I have to point out that saying that you are "tired of having the board cluttered with different exceptionally smug threads, all of whose point is to talk about how bad Stanford football is and how armchair fans and Monday morning quarterbacks would do it better" does in fact sound like censorship.

I'm in favor of a free market of ideas no matter how chaotic it becomes.  The only time I feel intervention might be appropriate is when there is excessive hostility and ill will.  I am grateful for the reminder that was provided about the genesis of this site and its raison d'etre.  I get frustrated with what I feel is undue negativity, but I try to resist the impulse to respond in kind when someone is dismissive or snarks at me.  If we were all too polite and "sensitive" there would probably be a lot less interesting discussion.

[CornFed]

I have an idea.  Perhaps we could have a single thread dedicated to Stanford football and a separate thread solely dedicated to all issues related to women's basketball, and a separate thread dedicated to everything about women's volleyball, and a separate thread focusing exclusively on SF Bay Area professional sports, and a separate thread which picks up each new development about graphene (oh yeah.  We already have that).

Thread clutter will be self correcting.  If threads aren't drawing replies, they will fade away pretty quickly.  If the prediction thread is falling to the second sheet, maybe there is not strong enough interest, or if there is and it is nonetheless being foisted onto the second page, is it just too much trouble to click "Next"?

I, too, am frustrated at the rush to jump to the front of the parade with all our pent up frustrations about David Shaw's inability to be Jim Harbaugh, or to recruit worth spit, or to keep from throwing everybody under the bus.  But who cares?  Apparently, I am not as perfectly efficient with my time management as all of you and the extra clicking does not cause me undue duress.  And I have to point out that saying that you are "tired of having the board cluttered with different exceptionally smug threads, all of whose point is to talk about how bad Stanford football is and how armchair fans and Monday morning quarterbacks would do it better" does in fact sound like censorship.

I'm in favor of a free market of ideas no matter how chaotic it becomes.  The only time I feel intervention might be appropriate is when there is excessive hostility and ill will.  I am grateful for the reminder that was provided about the genesis of this site and its raison d'etre.  I get frustrated with what I feel is undue negativity, but I try to resist the impulse to respond in kind when someone is dismissive or snarks at me.  If we were all too polite and "sensitive" there would probably be a lot less interesting discussion.