...but I guess I just feel differently. I’ve been here around that same amount of time (first lurking, then contributing), and I’d just like to see this site be as efficient as possible when it comes to initiating and undertaking discussions. I’d also point out that I wasn’t whining—I was simply offering some friendly advice to a new poster. In fact, I explicitly said it’s no big deal.

Granted, your solution is simple. But sometimes what’s simple isn’t what’s best. If this is, in fact, a community, we should all be looking for ways to make the community better and more productive. I happen to think that advising people to refrain from writing fanposts about the weather or giving random thoughts about the starting pitcher of a given game - when there’s already a game thread up - is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

There’s mine (2 cents, that is).