Reply #1376: It's realistic language...

[Violet_Crumble]

There isn't open and free discussion of certain topics the way other topics are, and I'm not sure why you'd act as though there's nothing at all wrong with those issues not being allowed to be discussed in the big forums. Also, the stringent rules in one of those dungeons about what can be used to start a thread means that discussion is very much hobbled.

I don't know what you come to DU for, but when I look at the Greatest page, I prefer to see important stuff there and not stuff that is allowed to be openly and freely discussed in GD, like 'My great-aunt's cat had the cutest kittens in the world today!'. I doubt any of this new stuff Skinner spoke about in the OP will improve the situation where some topics are hidden away in smaller forums, but clearly a lot of DUers are frustrated with the rule about I/P discussion not being allowed in the big forums and hopefully Skinner might revisist a decision that was made a long time ago....