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[Kadar]

Public =/= Best is the point. But Public isn't meant to be the best. It's meant to do a job and do it cheaply/efficiently/conveniently.

Imagine two public bathrooms if you will. In one you can do whatever you want up to an extent. This is much like @main in it's current state. You can basically do whatever you want. Sure, you can yell to your buddy in the next stall. It may be a bit strange but you can if you want. There are however, some things you just don't do on @main. Just like there are some things you just don't do in a bathroom. You don't swear like a sailor every other sentence on @main and you don't go around defacing bathrooms just because you can. There are occasional exceptions but they not the norm.

Now imagine @main where you are not allowed to talk about any subject which comes to mind. You have to keep everything g-rated and polite because someone outside of the target audience might stumble upon it. That is like a bathroom which requires you to clean up the sections of floor that you step on every time you use it. If you want to talk in the bathroom you have to write it out and slip it under the stall door to your buddy. You have to clean the sinks after you use them too. Someone might have to see that dirt you washed off of your hands from working construction.


Just in case someone doesn't get it... Here is a little key to this analogy:
Yelling to your buddy = using @main to talk to a friend
Being forced to write to your buddy = forced to use PM system to talk 1 on 1.
Cleaning the floor you use = keeping the bathroom/@main g-rated and mother approved. (lol kix..)
Washing dirt from your hands from construction job = the fact that some people are more tolerant of harsh language or colorful word choices. Construction is a contrast to say.. a desk job. The point here is that the construction worker deals with dirt all day long. Someone working a desk job only has to deal with dirt when it's in the public bathroom sink. I think the desk job worker can learn to deal with that minor discomfort. Or if they care that much they can use a different bathroom(form of RO conversation).