I agree with the 'parlay' notion : I just think the current forum rules properly enforced would serve the same end. As it is topics on 'serious' aspects of game-play or development just spiral rapidly into the now usual toxic mess which kills any progress stone-dead.
Even the forum 'fun', like the games and competitions, is being strangled by the fact the forums are not a fun place to be unless you have a skin like a rhino or enjoy dishing it out as much as taking it. Which is not most peoples idea of 'fun'.
Even this thread has headed rapidly into the usual death spiral of incontinent verbiage.
Maybe we should just give up and not bother with posting/reading/contributing to the forums... which is becoming the default position for an awful lot of players both veteran and new.
This game needs the players : players do not need this game : there are plenty of other games with less grief and more fun.
It's an issue needs fixing or it wont matter what we call the threads.. no-one will be watching.