cohost being more or less designed from the ground up to prevent sitewide conversation has really only resulted in a situation where, instead of a dialogue forming, you have 400 thousand people all individually vagueposting about snippets they've seen or heard from Other vagueposts, telephone gaming the situation until the only thing most people are aware of is "gee, everyone sure is mad around here", and i have to explain and re-explain and re-re-explain the whole thing from first principles to every single person who walks in like Hey Guys What's Happening In This Thread.
which - and i mean no offense to the few of you who've actually been cordial and receptive - is the sort of thing that can and will drive you Completely Fucking Nuts