Pat wrote:

           The Independence Day Massacre:

I've already expressed my views on the subject.

I will add that I have served on Boards making million dollar decisions and one of the rules was "The manager is always right,  ...  sometimes you have to fire the manager."

You trust the decisions of those that have to make them everyday until they violate that trust.

once lost it cannot be easily retrieved

somebody's head should roll

It's a sad, sad day for BFA!

oh. so this is the watercooler.. so ANY post er comment to a blog that is not directly on topic gets moved? I wonder if my blah blah blahs had anything to do with it.. god knows I have my enemies over here! haha Nahhhhh -- who supports this malarkey???

It didn't sound to me as if it were bloggers that complained.  Rather people who claimed they *would* blog if everything were different.  I've seen too often peeps who come here, make a demand or a request for special help, and depart forever.  They never seem to understand that there is a *community* here, which operates like any other community.  That, in fact, seems to be the misunderstanding of HQ, or parts of it.  I think, ironically, that is ISN't a mistake I ever saw Howard make. . . .   He must have been a very good doctor. . . .

... that is HQ were trying to get rid of anyone... they could. They could delete off-topic comments completely instead of re=posting them to the Watercooler.  They could delete the profiles of people who bad mouth them. But they don't do any of that. Instead HQ came up with an alternate idea that makes it possible to meet everyone's needs. There is no reason why the BFA comments community can't still survive at BFA. On topic post will stay on the front page comment threads. Off-topic ones will be re-posted to the Watercooler rather then be deleted. And The Watercooler will remain a permanent open thread where the BFA community can meet anytime to talk about anything.

And for those wondering, the Watercooler IS being archived already and not a single Watercooler post has been lost. Soon our tech department will make it possible to find the archived posts, but they are there -- just "behind the scenes"