Largosomalia,
I have read and re-read all of your posts and quite frankly I see a disturbing patter emerge. As stated in your original post, you dreamt of a universal community which will host any and all opinions, a thing which stands against monopoly. What you end up describing is EXACTLY a monopoly. A single, monolithic, one-stop shop for any and all seeking PE information. No other ?flavors? except the one offered by the Über-board. You completely miss the fact that people actually like and seek out differences. I too belong to several boards and have left others because of aspects that I found displeasing. I have exercised my right to look elsewhere for information, EVEN THOUGH THE INFORMATION WAS NEARLY IDENTICAL, simply because of how the boards were run. Like it or not, when people try to serve up the same service, it is the multitude of various ways that attract some to one place and others to another. It is the height of arrogance and folly that presuppose one way is the ultimate way.
What have I just described, largosomalia? Capitalism, in the strictest sense of the word, or anarchy. Competition is equally applicable to ideas as it is to business, which you seem to frown upon. Bad ideas need to be weeded out and replaced by better ones. Ideas actually compete for individuals? attentions. Do us all a favor and let people decide for themselves where and in what format they choose to receive their information and ideas. Different sites allow individuals to chose how and in what format the information is presented. It is not uncommon for someone to post the same information to multiple boards and for members to belong to multiple boards. Some boards have bias towards certain techniques. Other boards have incredibly low signal to noise ratios. Each board is a different creature and by combining them all you would be in essence creating a board that takes the lowest common denominator and making it the standard.
Now about the noble cause of the exchange of information. I liken this place to a scientific journal. People try experiments and publish their results. Others read the experiments, try to replicate the results, and then report back their findings. Basically, this is the scientific method. There is no difference between this board and a science review journal. Now get this, largosomalia, there are literally thousands of peer review journals. There does not exist one big-ass journal where scientists and researchers go for information. If you don?t understand why, please reference paragraph number 2.
My advice to you, largosomalia, is for you to take a few classes in economics, read a few scientific review journals, and maybe look into differences between democracies and autocracies. You seem to have a top-down, ?I know what?s best for everybody?, approach, which just doesn?t work.
-sexpilot