Priceless story about you father inlaw!
(Separate threads that have the readers digest version of events, I'm all for them!!)
If someone went back and removed all of the off topic comments, bickering, clique insider jokes and bitching the 8,000 comment threads would become 5,000 thread posts.
When mining for facts, I'm going to the mine with the most concentrated ore. I don't have the time to shovel 16 tons for a few gems.
Sorry howlin..
The "hot" live threads would probably shrink to 10-20% of their number of posts. They are very much like a chatroom, and as far as I'm concerned, that is a plenty valid purpose.
The downside of the free running, stream of consciousness exchanges in live threads is lousy signal to noise. Lots of "thread variety" at FR!
I appreciated seeing this thread, as I was looking for the names of the dissenters, and didn't want to wade through the live thread. I think the defense of the live thread as "official meeting place" is funny.
CSPAN is replaying Jean Schmidt's comments over and over. Now that is funny. The House managed to get the comments removed from the official record, but they are getting played in the media.
Not voting: Bobby Jinadal and Ron Paul are among that 22.