But then we might have to hear the other sides of an argument rather than just posting in an (almost) all dude echo chamber
The goal is to confine the argument -- and then meta-commentary on the posters and the arguments made -- to the thread of the topic itself, so that this thread functions as an escape from the ongoing dramas of the rest of the message board, rather than an extension of those threads.
The rest of this board can be obnoxious enough... why drag it here?