Let's say generously it takes me half a second to scan my eye over the three concurrent blog threads we have going and say that I check the subforum maybe eight times in a given evening.
A year of that means I've just wasted 1460 seconds of my year, which equates to about 24 minutes, which equals two full episodes of the Venture Brothers I could've watched this year instead of having to even run my eye past the threads. I seriously feel like doing the ballparked math of how much time out of my life the blog thread wastes on an annual basis was a better use of my time than actually reading the blog thread is at this point. Am I seriously the only one at least slightly bothered by the fact that our longest thread is primarily self indulgent bitching?
The biggest part of your reply I'm concerned with is the idea that this forum
needs a relationship advice thread. This place got by plenty long enough without even a blog thread, much less three separate threads that exist for the sole purpose of micromanaged blogging. You know what the forum did before the blog thread? They didn't blog. If you gave a shit about the crap going on in someone's life, you talked to them outside the forums or added them on facebook what have you.
Shit, threads used to get locked after a certain point to avoid stagnation like the circle jerk the blog thread has turned into. But then one day people just threw an absolute shit fit when a couple threads got locked because shit was getting boring. So hey, this is me. Throwing a shit fit because the forum got boring and everyone seems to have forgotten how to make threads that have actual conversation in them rather than one reply moving onto the next on to the next with no discernible interaction other than "Oh dude, that sucks" and "Yay for you" before the subject is changed entirely.
dude seriously its a forum on the internet who gives a shit?
This might sound wacky, but a good few of us value the overall community here for various good reasons.