Bitcoin users really need to move on another sort of forum in order to facilitate better discussions.
We have this platform right here. I'm not even sure how so many topics take place on reddit. But at least a fair amount of interesting topics posted there end up being here too.
Yes! The publicly owned bitcointalk will give us the freedom of speech we need. /s

It's the best we have, and has been quite good so far.
Regarding users and their coins... If things can be solved while users keep their coins, it would be the best. If some lose out, we all lose a bit too, and nobody would like to be on the wrong side of a fork. Lessons can still be learned without having to sacrifice anything.