The Onion is a thing because it's not just the same -blam!-ing story/ complaint EVERY GODAMN WEEK. When people buy the onion, they know what to expect and they go out of their way to read it. This is a public forum, a completely different median, where many people have creative liscence. Trolling/satire about the same topic is not creative, nor is it expressing any new opinion or information. People read the Onion FOR satire, people visit the forums to discuss.