Graar! This thread sucks! I hate it so much! Keyser Sushi is a jackass! This thread shouldn't exist! It's not fair! I hate this stupid thread so much....I'm going to keep posting in it to express my extreme dislike, thus bumping it back up to the top of the page.
Since you are interested in intelligent discussion, you should be open to criticisms of this topic. I can't speak for the tact of the people doing to criticizing, but I can say
your response doesn't scream "I want to have a nice discussion" to me. On page one, a member--who mentioned enjoying the thread well enough--described it as "grandstanding." Rather than address the issue (which is legitimate, regardless of how it was voiced) you called the poster a "noob" and told him in no uncertain terms to shut up and go away.
This confused me. I would have expected a well-conceived rebuttal detailing how this thread exists
not to grandstand, but rather to encourage a higher standard of discussion, which, of course, would be nice.
This thread will not serve what you're trying to do. It has already been demonstrated that this is the case. Everyone on this board believes their contributions are
intelligent. No one says "Huh, this post is pretty stupid and worthless" and proceeds to click the submit button. Accordingly, one of two things will happen:
1) Posts below your standard will be made here, because nobody knows what your standard is and
everyone believes their posts to be "intelligent."
2) Posts ridiculing your Intelligence Club Thread will be made by those who will perceive this as an insult to the quality of discussion on the rest of the board.
At which point, you will call the posters noobs and tell them to shut up and go away. I don't think this will be conducive to "intelligent debate."
Moreover, if I have an intelligent to make, I'm not going to make it here, in this directionless void. I'm going to make it in the topic where it fits. If it's about the Joker, I'll put it in the Joker topic, and so on. Why put it here, where the discussion will be all over the map, when I can put it where it belongs?
If you really want to raise the bar, the correct solution is making your "intelligent" posts throughout the board, not in The Intelligence Club Thread. I appreciate your goal here, but this thread is a mistake.