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for an example of how snowballish things get, look back a week ago to the 'ask me' phenomenon. i'm not passing judgement on that here, just pointing out that it happened. and everything happens like that. if you let one off-topic post go in, others will post them too.

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So what? "Off topic" of what? Who do they hurt? Half of OOT is the snowball effect.

There were a few "ask me" threads on sports. That probably sucked for anyone who doesn't like sports. If you don't like sports, you have to deal for a day, until the wind blows through. You won't have to wade through crap threads, because those get a *. You just have to deal with the fact that OOT isn't thinking like you that day. Eliminating "off topic" threads creates a de facto topic, as has been pointed out in the "what's left" comments.

The more I think about it, the more I think your problem is that the copycat threads aren't * worthy but aren't good either. I don't have an answer to that.