RAWK is superb. That is my default position.
There are lots of valid criticisms here, such as great posts being lost, lots of one-liners, but to weed those out takes a lot of work, and must surely complicate the technicalities of keeping the site going, as well as giving the mods even more work.
This site works superbly on phones, laptops, desktops - some RAWKites are reading it on something the size of their palm, others - I suspect
- on something the size of their house, and it works for both. That has to be kept.
As for one-liners, very often I read a huge long post, especially in the football analysis pieces, or the financials, and to be honest I barely understand any of it, or more accurately, I have no idea how someone can be so articulate, and I just want to say thankyou. I've been educated, I can't share it back, but I want to say thanks as quick as I can.
Match threads, often the same, I just want to give some support. I've got no idea what the team should be, but I want to show support.
So delete all those short replies afterwards, but I don't see how it can be done without overcomplicating things and ruining the cross-platform accessibility.
I agree with having a read-only thread of the some of the best posters, but I'm not sure it would work well in practice. Some of the best posters may have their own reasons for not wanting that.
RAWK, to me, is brilliant, and I read it for a long time before bumping into an open for membership era. Any alterations should aim for the same simplicity of use that it currently has, and take full regard of the work the mods have to do already without giving them more difficulties.