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Wouldn't that also encourage trash-talking posts to fill the thread? I prefer keeping it all together in the General forum, following the Marketplace of Ideas concept.

The concept also has roots in John Milton's argument for freedom of expression. Milton argued that the individual is capable of using reason and distinguishing right from wrong, good from bad. But in order to be able to exercise this reason correctly, the individual must have unlimited access to the ideas of his fellow men in "a free and open encounter." In Milton's writings can be found the idea that when people argue against each other the better argument will prevail.