Only Going Forward Because We Can't Find Reverse

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Ultimately, the Calgary Construction thread was a high profile, popular, active thread. The valuable contributors there were taking pictures of construction, talking about the construction updates, and so on.

A group of people came by, saw the activity, saw the number of eyeballs on that thread, and proceeded to inappropriately continuously stand on a soap box preaching about irrelevant topics in that thread. They exploited the activity of the thread and it's popularity to get their off topic inappropriate preachy messages out, which no one in that thread wanted to hear.

Constant talk about condo investment potential (which was brought up by suburban dwellers who hate condos), constant talk about inner city crime (precipitated by suburbia), constant talk about how houses are superior living abodes.

That isn't what people came to the Calgary Construction thread for, yet suburban dwellers kept pestering and polluting the thread, even as other threads were created to focus the irrelevant conversations elsewhere.

Why didn't the aforementioned conversations keep to the Housing Choices thread? Or the Crime Thread? Because no one visits those threads because no one wants to talk about those things on this forum. So these preachy opportunists continued to pollute the Calgary Construction thread because that is the only place people would engage them and see their posts.

They pretentiously assumed they had some brilliant messages to get out to an audience, and those silos weren't good enough to feed their unbridled egos.

Now instead of wading through all that crap, people have just left. So congratulates, you can now preach as much as you want, in this "non echo chamber". Except you are now preaching to almost an empty room.

Moderation has it's place, and it's absence is what sunk this forum.