I occasionally stray over to other areas to see what topics are bouncing around. I realized something today on the stupid AUUndercover board. People there (and I guess at ITAT, too) to talk to each other. There are six and seven page threads where every comment is hidden and none of the people talking know anything of value at all. They're just babbling their own worthless opinions, baseless theories, petty gripes and poorly-worded fiffle farfle.
Who in their right mind would pay to have access to that regurgitated walrus phlegm? I can sort of see hiding comments from paid journalists or something so you'd have to pay a little bit (I never would) to read their stuff, but just run of the mill idiots posting their half-baked burble behind a pay wall and other flatlining slugs forking out cash to read what eagleDWar, gantau and stevo180 have to say? That's lunacy.