[Lead Moderator]

I'll tell you what. To me, it seemed a natural that this thread would go to chat, since after 15000 posts, the article was no longer the issue but rather people were chatting about speculation, rumors, conspiracies, theories, and all sorts of things. It was a campfire. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but to me that is what the chat forum should be and moving this here to help the chat forum become what it should be just made sense.

But you guys want it in the other forum? I'll reconsider and put it there. But don't turn this thread/ongoing discussion into a pain in the butt for me or the rest of the staff, ok? Thanks, LM

[milkncookies]

Thanks LM, but you're making me dizzy. :>)

[Letitring]

I don't care where we are, just that, we are. :)

[mhking]

I'll reconsider and put it there.

Thank you for your insight and consideration... It is much appreciated.

[thecabal]

Thanks for the explanation on why the thread was moved to chat. I'm sure you are very busy, so thanks for taking the time to let us know your thinking on the matter.

[JustPiper]

Thank you for your offer LM! What say you troops, where do we belong? The EOM/Daleel thing would keep us in chat IMO.

[FairOpinion]

I think the reason it would make sense for this thread to be in news, because frequently people do post news articles, even articles they only post here -- I mean legitimate news articles from "conventional, accepted" media sources.

I know I have done that a number of times, and so have others. Many times people also post links to articles posted on FR, which are related to WoT, which some of us may miss, but this thread is sort of a summary of all that. This is something like a repository of all or most War on Terror news, and speculation, naturally.

As for the "chat" aspect -- well, in other threads, which start out with a news article, and you know how many end up...

I don't know about the mechanics of how you handle the threads and why it's easier if something is in chat vs. news, but while sometimes people do go off on some theory, or discuss strange message boards, there really is enough genuine news posted, that in my opinion, it deserves to stay in news.

Hopefully people will keep bickering, hitting the abuse button and going too far off topic to a minimum. :)