Forum:Eliminating Forum:The Sims 4 predictions

Okay so I've been thinking about this for quite some time now and I figured I may as well propose it.

Some of you may know that a while back, there was an effort to cleanup Forum:The Sims 4 predictions, which included the archival of older content and whatnot. This was a step to try and make it a bit more desirable but since then the same problems of things looking a mess, new ideas being placed anywhere, a messy layout and flame wars over certain ideas have popped back in and it's near-impossible to moderate. I don't blame anyone for this due to the structure of the page.

I personally feel that we should just eliminate or permanently lock that particular thread for several reasons:
 * Near impossible to moderate, as stated above.
 * Only attracts anonymous users, most of which make the one edit and never come back so it's not really doing anything to help us attract new users.
 * Strong target for flame bait.
 * Too tedious to even want to consider fixing.

I can see how there is relief value with this thread as it does provide somewhere for users to give their predictions but in its current state it's basically become too tedious for any real value to come out of the thread. I could perhaps support a spiritual successor of some kind but I have no ideas for this whatsoever.

Thoughts? 12:58, February 17, 2013 (UTC)