Ok. I didn’t want to do this, but you’ve driven me to it. In light of today’s heated debate, I think we should call it the ‘nuclear option’! I want you to picture a nightmare future where the forum is no more. Done away with after canceled magazine subs failed to support it any longer
Disgruntled ‘Big Hitters’ wander the internet like the zombies in Shaun of the dead, desperately searching for a forum to shout their pointless, cyclical arguments, and air their barely educated entrenched views. Their ceaseless desire for public acknowledgment drives them like a crack whore to ever greater desperation
In panic, Mumsnet and the Guardian shut their forums down once the news is released of the tribe of marauding middle-aged fat blokes. Facebook share price plummets on the mere suspicion they may turn up there. The Daily Telegraph wakes from its slumber. Just in case!
Then… THEN… the situation everyone feared! The one nobody was really ready for. The one nobody thought could happen. THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR KEYBOARDS AND ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC
Screams can be heard emerging from pubs, as they waddle in, senses dimmed by years spent huddled over a monitor, to be heard muttering “and another fuggin thing…..”
Their already pathetic social skills shriveled by the endless, consequence-free spouting of utter garbage. Some are punched within seconds of opening the front door.
Do you want this on your conscience?! DO YOU?!
If you can live with that, then go on. Cancel your subscription. On your head be it!