Cleo I understand what you are saying, there are both advantages and disadadvantages going threaded.
There is alot more noise and so little time to peruse the threads for something of interest. Sometimes the topic of the thread is not really the booty being talked about. Often times a thread takes off in a different frame of mind but goes "un-noticed" because the topic title is not suggestive of where it has evolved to now and gets overlooked--
The evolution of boards over the years has lost alot of the posters who really were interesting to watch/read. Webmasters that stick to boards are used to threaded boards as a result of GFY, and with alot of the board vets gone it makes sense to cater to the new "eyeballs".
These eyeballs clearly perfer nude pix, talk of Jenna Jameson etc [water cooler chatter], and not real keen to develop intellectual convo's. But this can be somewhat interceeded by the board steering into some "good stuff" and create the taste which ups the mentality of participation in inellectual threads.
Hands down Oprano as a whole has the most diversifed threads going, and not a ton of lead in questions to start threads
"What do you think...."
"Whats your favorite...."
"Where are you...."
"Why should we.."
"Who thinks that.."
It comes down to the profile of the community which will influence the level of intellect of the threaded boards that will appeal to the readership.
Oprano has alot of strong background ppl and the flatboard could not house all the input, its like trying to stick 100 ppl into a volkswagon.
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