IMO there is no need for a separate board, an additional place for moderators to moderate, and all the jazz that goes with it...

This is the "Off Topic" board...where you talk about anything that aint fishing. You can NOT click on the thread here just as quickly as you can NOT click on the thread in another forum. The whole "it's cluttering up the thread list" argument is weak. If you go creating a separate forum for every topic that is popular you'll forever be creating new forums.

Don's exactly right about the train wreck effect too...you know you're all reading these posts waiting to see what Elnut's crazy ass is going to say next, or what is going to spew out of Mills, or what Tim T is going to tee-off on...and that's just the sports stuff. You're also clicking the fire out of the political links to see who is going to piss in who's Cheerios next. It's like that drunk uncle you've got who always shows up at the Christmas party and pukes in Grandma's front porch ferns. It would be a whole lot more "proper" without him there, but by God he's family, and Christmas just wouldn't be the same without the drama. Let it alone. It's what makes an Off Topic Forum entertaining. If you want to kill it and make it all go away, start busting it up and micro-managing it. It'll become as vanilla and boring as the Lawrence Welk Show around here. Trust me.

Now, are some going way too far here lately? Yep. A case of Message Board Diarrhea, or "The Cyber Runs" as it's known on the street, has left a couple nursing a little bit of toilet paper rash. They will eventually get put on permanent vacation....or, just like a deep UofL NCAA Tourney run, it will eventually flame out and things will get back to normal.