Mudcat, aptly named because a lot of mud is slung about here, still offers an alternative to a lack of voice found elsewhere on the net. If you can wade through the silly mud clods hurled about, a space for intelligent sharing of information is possible.

I agree with Jim Carroll that censorship does nothing to aid free speech and the silencing of ideas that you don't agree with has a negative effect on a democratic free-for-all and that democratic opinion is healthy. I don't see that these threads are totally boring, but they could be if people restrict their option to express their views.

Maybe what we're looking at is hoping for the demise of boring people who present their views in a personal attack mode rather than from a position of logic persuasiveness.

It's such a cop-out to call names rather than answer with intelligence and logic and dismiss those who offend you with their ideas by denigrating them personally or being lazy and by not taking the time to understand what is valuable in the statements being presented.

Also, a feeble attempt at humor directed toward ridicule is absolutely boring, the humor that is really not funny but adolescent or sophomoric.

Say something worthwhile and it won't be boring, eliciting an interesting conversation.

I think that this is the real purpose behind a BS section in the Mudcat site.