I disagree with a couple points here. To begin, your assessment that the new style of foruming encourages "3 word meme answer[s]" is something I disagree with on all accounts. In all of my eight years here, I have seen very little change in these sort of posts and they have persisted through the new forum transition. More on this point, the removal of the forum time limit does not, nor did it, have an impact on a poster's content. Anyone willing to post a short, "worthless" blurb for comment was not hindered, as the post limit only affected frequency, and not length, of posts. Short posts and frequent posts are mutually exclusive and do not come hand in hand. Honestly, I think there has been very small amounts of critically useful discussion on this site (with a few exceptions) in quite some time. It is my opinion, however, that this is a result of two things. Pre-b.next, there wasn't much to talk about. During the darkness, every facet of every topic was practically scrapped clean, especially here in the community forum. There was simply nothing new coming from Bungie to truly fuel the furnaces of conversation. Post-b.next is a different story entirely. While the available content has increased, I believe that the new pageless and bottom-up post order has changed how people respond to threads. It was vastly common knowledge that many users simply read the OP of a thread, perhaps a few posts, then used the "respond" button to add their thoughts, skipping dozens of posts - and often pages - that may have already stated the same ideas that the user wanted to express. In many instances, conversations would periodically repeat themselves as new users came and left a thread, pushing older conversations into seldom-read pages allowing the new users to state the same ideas and rebuttals that were well-expressed and rebuked. The new style lets the most recent and often more relevant posts float to the top where users can easily read them, a simple method that allows pertinent, popular, and useful ideas to be easily communicated and shared without the inherent repetition that plagued the threads and forum as a whole. With shared ideas being more easily expressed and less often repeated, we are seeing shorter threads, simply for the fact that the same posts aren't being repeated ad nauseum as the pages tick past. To some it may look like there's less discussion, but really there's simply less noise.