Quote Originally Posted by Dave Rapp View Post

Long story short:

A free public forum where you can discuss anything will almost always be better than a free public forum where you're supposed to mainly discuss one thing. Teh edn.
I think the previous poster was referring to the OOTS subsection specifically, not the whole forum. There are plenty of discussions going on in giantitp that have nought to do with OOTS, but they are in their own subsections.