Well, it was like that originally, a lot of people found it confusing and that's why they added primary tags as forums. That's why you'll see some threads from the beta in January existing in multiple forums. I don't see them removing it anytime soon though.
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People also didn't like the no-rules, mute, self regulation of the forums, but they didn't take that away. I don't think we should cater to the lowest common denominator... People would learn how to use it, and everything would be fine.
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You mean like how people learned to use the hide and mute features? Have you looked at off-topic? You have to mute impersonation accounts every 5 minutes there, but the majority won't because of that stupid "only wimps mute" mindset, so nothing happens to the accounts impersonating. Only thing I could see coming from removing the barrier now would be giving spammers the ability to spam across all the main tags.
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[quote]but the majority won't because of that stupid "only wimps mute" mindset[/quote]Right, their loss for not using the feature... [quote]Only thing I could see coming from removing the barrier now would be giving spammers the ability to spam across all the main tags.[/quote]Which would lead to more people using the mute feature. A win-win in my book.