Originally Posted by smberg
As the original poster of that thread, I’m OK with where it went. It generated a lot of dialogue and feedback that may be helpful for Larian to consider for either the original release or for expansions..
This is something I do like (and is somewhat unavoidable given the ancient & basic format of this forum) about the threads: they can go off into tangential discussions which are sometimes more (or at least differently) interesting than the original topic. E.g., that one WotR thread that started off with the OP ranting about Larian's wokeness in BG3, but whos thread morphed into mostly interesting discussion about definition of a crpg/rpg, measuring success for crpgs, game difficulty and difficulty options, game/system complexity, and alignment to name a few.

Of course this can also be a downside, when people get caught in a discussion that dominates the thread and is ~uninteresting to read or completely off-topic. If that goes on for more than a page, that's the time when some moderation would probably be helpful. But I think the freedom to discuss tangential topics is well worth the risk of this. And of course "uninteresting to read" is an opinion and the topic might be interesting to some.