Oh, don't mind me. There's simply too much doom and gloom, "let's assign everyone to two groups, select one, blame the other, and propose new, rigid structures to make everyone behave like my ideal me" talk around these days. My eyes glaze over.

There used to be similarly long, dull debates about a "search first" culture. Or the lack of one. Or something. Right or wrong didn't matter, the existence of the debate was enought to hamper the community. I started reading every post in every thread in order to--as often as possible--point to previous discussions or answers before the debate could be touched off again. Maybe it helped. Maybe it didn't. Either way, I was doing something, I didn't need to organize anything or even tell anyone what I was doing, and I felt useful. It made me happy.

I can't read every thread any more, but I do what I can as a mod now.

And if you want thanks, make with the funny.