Since I joined in 2005 I've noticed an increase of rumors and speculations floating around and especially clogging down the "Xtreme News" section, causing users to post a lot more spam and off-topic posts and the usual doubtful fud comments which gets both boring to read every day and in some cases creates offtopic discussions and even increases the possibility of flamewars, it simply just becomes a mess with both facts and rumors mixed IMO, especially when a thread was started by a rumor and then gets confirmation about it in the same thread so you have no choice but check out the threads even if you have no interest in the rumors.
So my suggestion to keep the forum more user & readerfriendly XS needs this "Xtreme Rumor Mill" section where "news" from for example fudzilla,the inquirer, semiaccurate, (EDIT: YouTube) and otherwise uncertain news should be posted and where you're yourself also allowed to speculate how much you want. I don't think limiting the "news" allowed to post is the way to go as rumors can cause very interesting discussions sometimes and also many funny things to laugh at and myself like to speculate and then see how close you were with the facts in your hand later on.
I decided to create a poll as well to get a glimpse what people thinks about this. Please comment about this people and especially mods & Charles.
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