No, actually, the main problem with thread proliferation is that it makes it hard to find information, and it makes it so the same information is repeated over and over again.

If BillD posts a well-reasoned opinion about one of his many areas of expertise, it can be impossible to find his meek and tiny voice amidst the reams of verbiage posted by our more prolific posters.

From what I understand from Max, storage is not a problem. One moderate-sized hard drive stores all the information that has been posted since its inception on October 1, 1996.

-Joe Offer-