Not that I spend hardly much time there... but to offer my experience to the pool of thought:
If you remove the room, you're probably going to do more damage to HLP by removing the Gen Disc' element.
People will either move somewhere else to continue on like they were, or simply not come around at all. It's been my experience
it's about a 70/30 split in favor of not coming around, usually due to feelings of being rejected by community X or some such. Very talkative
people tend to be more easily affected by things of that nature.
#freespace serves it's purpose of being for FS discussion as it should. #hard-light to me is dead, it serves no point in what I'm here for.
However that's not the case for everyone. Part of a community or forum is the social element. If you restrict things too much, you'll choke
yourself to death. Same way with being the smartest in the room, if you can answer any question that comes up, there's never any "out of the box"
thinking or random discussion. It's sterile and ultimately fails.
So... my suggestion is take care of the people that are causing the problem and/or establish rules to govern the zone.
If there are rules that exist - if they have been broken, then the choice is clear. If they are ineffective, then they simply need revising.
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