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So in other words, the A&E crowd needs to be forced to stick around in OOT for the sole benefit of the fart/sex/etc crowd, but screw the A&E crowd's own needs?

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It's not clear that the A&E crowd will benefit long term if OOT dies off. Without OOT to fuel it, it may be that you get a smaller crowd of more dedicated posters posting better comments but less frequently, and you get less traffic.

It's obviously not proven (nor provable) that removing A&E kills OOT, but it seems like a lot of the posters here who I (and I suspect just about everybody else, too) enjoy reading most are basically saying that they don't really think OOT would be much fun without this stuff. And I'm inclined to agree. From a non-business angle (2+2's success doesn't really interest me very much, though clearly it's going to be a driving force in deciding what gets done), OOT is a pretty interesting community. This place would be a lot drier without it, and it would be a shame to see it go. I tend to think that dispersing heavy chunks of the content that the more thoughtful posters seem to gravitate to is a step in that direction.