Stop locking the appreciation threads!

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Keyser Soze
Seriously, there are bigger problems in the world than having too many appreciation threads in the first page. If they're not worth reading or replying, they will fall down.

Supply and demand baby! Its the free market system! Give the people what they want!

That reasoning has led, over the course of time, to the following "gluts":

-- <i>Friends</i> clones in the early 90s, when it was first popular

-- teen pop girl/boy band oversaturation in the late 90s, when Britney and the Backstreet fags came along

-- wall-to-wall reality show TV now, thanks to the <i>Real World</i>, <i>Survivor</i>, and <i>American Idol</i>.

-- the otherwise inexplicable extended careers of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson... and anyone remotely related to any of them.

The best way to use the appreciation threads is a few at a time, as <i>distractions</i> to other threads, not the main focus themselves.

And besides, throw out too many, and we'll run of worthy babes far too quickly. Hell, you already thought Kirsten was scraping the bottom of the barrel, and she was just the 3rd such thread created, so how much deeper does it get?