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[cingchris]

I'm with Mass Distraction, killing the remaining free thread would be pointless and actually create less activity, but that's not to say some of the things that go in there and in the chit chat thread could have used their own threads but most everything that goes in the free thread and went in the chit chat thread is/was just a bunch of random drivel that doesn't deserve a thread. I personally think the chit chat thread should be re-opened or just re-made as it doesn't actually cause any problems sure some things in it are gonna be thread worthy, but 90% of it will just be the same random drivel we came to expect from the thread. As for saying that the thread get too long, the reason they receive so much activity is because they are the easiest places to make post in, as there is no actual topic and you can say basically whatever you want, the best analogy I can come up with for what the free thread and chit chat thread serve as is a tiny Facebook for these forums, the chit chat thread was a place to go where we could just talk about whatever was on our mind thread worthy or not, usually not, by taking that away you have created less activity actually which is counter-productive to your original reasoning sure we have a few more threads in the general discussion area but those would have probably been made anyway, as just about any thread made is usually a question or a topic, not just us saying whatever comes to mind like what the chit chat thread was and the free thread still is.

Edit:Also I just remembered a time when we were all making a bunch of dumb threads that lasted like maybe two pages each we were actually told by staff (don't remember who and too lazy to go check) that we should have been posting stuff like that in the chit chat thread as it was just kind of pointless and stupid, and then we are told in the chit chat thread in the closing message that if we wanna talk about something we should make a thread about and that you wouldn't tell us "no" these two statements contradict each other and actually I'm pretty sure if we all started posting threads about a bunch a random crap that was basically pointless again you guys would question why we even made the threads and possibly close them.