Didn't want to start a new thread for this, but has there been a conscious discussion leading to (what seems like) this new trend where the moderation of the site seems to be
extremely against discussion and posts veering off the original topic themes? It seems to upset Mods quite a bit lately and I don't remember this always being the case.
I mean I understand it keeps things tidier but it just seems a bit "controlly" if you know what I mean. It seems to go against the natural flow of debate. Conversations do change and evolve over their course, like in real life. I'm sure we've all been sat at the boozer end gone " 'kinell how did we end up talking about this?".
It just seems a bit restrictive to go "well I've got a fairly valid point to make in reply to that last post there but even though its perfectly pertinent and may evoke further intelligent debate I'd better leave off cos its slightly different to the main thread topic."
Like I say I understand it in a way and you've got bandwidth to consider and have enough shite to trawl through but I just thought there was a point to be made.