[BostonCard]

Clearly if the board had wanted to ban people for criticism, a lot of people would have been banned long ago. The problem I see is that there are a finite number of topics on the front page. While your point is well taken about the number of topics being a reflection of interest, the depth of each thread is also a reflection of interest.  As others have posted, there is a single thread, spanning multiple pages, about the women’s basketball tournament in Vancouver, which I would venture was a topic of interest to many people. When, on the other hand, there are four or five more or less synonymous posts that garner a half dozen replies each, is it really a reflection of interest?

BC

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Note that the single women’s basketball thread has 90 posts as of right now, while the merged football thread has 91, including a whole bunch of posts debating the wisdom of merging the threads.

BC

[BostonCard]

Clearly if the board had wanted to ban people for criticism, a lot of people would have been banned long ago. The problem I see is that there are a finite number of topics on the front page. While your point is well taken about the number of topics being a reflection of interest, the depth of each thread is also a reflection of interest.  As others have posted, there is a single thread, spanning multiple pages, about the women’s basketball tournament in Vancouver, which I would venture was a topic of interest to many people. When, on the other hand, there are four or five more or less synonymous posts that garner a half dozen replies each, is it really a reflection of interest?

BC

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Note that the single women’s basketball thread has 90 posts as of right now, while the merged football thread has 91, including a whole bunch of posts debating the wisdom of merging the threads.

BC