We disagree. Imho, the system established by the owner of this site is working just fine.
You are right; it was rather long, I ignored it after the first sentence so that was all I remembered.
I’ve suggested a caucus-like category before; I think a thread like this would be a lot more fun for everybody if it stayed on-point and others knew to stay out of it, but so far I haven’t really gotten anybody else on board. As much as people complain about the interference in their threads, they don’t think there’s a problem with it.