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We've got topics that've been on for close to a year now, and such topics still ocuppy the front page of their various sections as users still contribute a thing or two to the discussions daily
Well your assessment may be correct only based on the fact that this thread is a meaningless/redundant one
Just wonder how can you discuss a topic on daily basis for over an year and still add some meaningful information to it without repeating it, if it's not a price/news related or following some current events, I see no point of topics with more than 10 pages, no one read the previous comments they just replaying to the OP or the last post. This often leads only to repeat something that was already said.
Look in the Bitcoin Discussion, pick one of the threads with more then 10 pages are read the comments, I'm pretty sure you'll end up even with copy/pasting cases. People just pumping their post count for the sig. campaigns, even if they have noting to say.
Do you think if we remove the sig. campaigns in general that those discussions will still go on?? No.