I'm getting really annoyed with this discussion, you know. It is not a really important issue - but I have this tendency to think that if you like the damn filthy BB thing so much, go post there instead. Myself, I have quite a distaste for it, and feel the average users of such systems are the ones commenting on youtube videos (see xkcd). I guess I wouldn't mind a hybrid much, as long as I never had to see it or notice it for myself.



As for the lazy bums who don't want to click a few times to get a good discussion going: they are a symptom of the dumbing down of society - from the emergence of a two party system to the fact that no computer game which requires learning how to do stuff is ever published - all these small signs of impatience is a boil on society's butt. In all likelihood, they also wait for the movie instead of reading the book, and thus we don't want the bastards around.

I may be an elitist bastard, but I am damn good at it. Also, I was making a jest, but now I had to find arguments to hate new people, thank you very much.

But really, this is the only place on the internet with a decent board system; if that were to change in any significant way, well, most of the people I like here are on facebook, I might as well just leave and keep in touch there. I am somewhat convinced that while you might get an influx of new people (which is hard if the site looks like every other place on the internet) I think a large part of the backbone which carries the site will be lost. New people are important, but not at the cost of what makes the place interesting. I guess the decision is up to Ben, though, and every word we have written here will be deleted when he thinks it is annoying enough.