I didn't gather the OP was necessarily addressing only those who abuse threads to re-open worn out ATM debates. Yes, this happens and is frustrating; but as a relative new-commer to BAUT I can say that often I find myself lost when a conversation starts to discuss something that's related to one of these dead theories. Some of them can be searched easily enough; others either return so many different threads or threads that are thousands of posts long that cannot be easily read.

This leaves someone like me with few options: either forget about it and not follow the current conversation (no fun), or ask about it and risk derailing that current conversation. Also, asking about it opens the door for the proponents of said "dead" discussions to come flying back in.

Granted, the idea of a wiki or library of such topics would be a huge undertakig. It's something that I think would be *nice*, but not necessarily feasable.

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