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It's a pity though -- if we stayed on a topic, an open thread could be a great place to learn from each other and respect each other. This happened in the Catholic-Orthodox fights which were pretty heavy 3/4 years ago and then we realised common grounds. Even now, on these threads there are no Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans or any real Presbyterians or Pentecostals. They stay away as there is no conversation, no debate, no dialogue and many say that they are disgusted by those who claim to speak for Protestants.

If there was some way to ensure that all debates were focused on the topic of the thread, but that is asking too much from the moderators.

Like, if I give you an example -- the debate on say restorationism. It can be focused and actually answer questions of both the posters and any lurkers. Instead what happens is that you'll have another poster jumping on and asking one of the posters why his group eats eggs sunny side up with ketchup (i.e. a blatant falsehood) and then the topic get derailed and we go into a never ending circle of mud-slinging