Adding to the actual topic (note: I don't actually support this proposal):
Suggestions and Questions: Proposal for a new board for off-topic sections of long-running threads
The proposal is about sections of threads, like the last 20 replies or so of this one, that have gone off topic, and none of these would work:
* doing nothing, as the thread would devolve into Alanland or fierce politics debates (depending on the thread)
* splitting the thread, as the off-topic section doesn't really have a theme
* removing the offending posts, as it's more than a page
* locking the thread, as the actual topic would be lost
Previous threads have had different approaches. The AHTD to ARDOT thread devolved into pirate jokes and was then locked, while there was entire dam jokes thread that was split from another one.