I think one important point we're also missing here that hasn't been mentioned is these threads seem to clog up the Gear Talk. Even if you don't open them up the entire forum is affected. It would be one thing if there was one Last Drop thread or Saga thread, or "How does this fit" thread but there is always 10 of them. The results then are tons of valuable threads getting pushed down and forgotten. In the main ski gabber if you made threads this dumb your karma would be zero and everyone would flame you. So that's what I think is most frustrating about coming to the gear talk page lately. Valuable threads being pushed down until they're forgotten.