I am a little late to the party, just getting caught up.
I am not sure I see the issue with a personalized thread like that if it is not hurtful or insulting. The cluttering rule is in place to...keep fewer threads from being produced? I thought what we wanted was more activity on the forums?
As someone pointed out, 95% of those @ threads are immediately hijacked and turn into a group discussion. So then wouldn't it be up to the mods to look through each thread to see if it remained a personal conversation? And if so, lock it? Isn't that over moderation and sort of against the main idea of fubu?
I am a fan of extreme moderation if it prevents fighting, insulting remarks and offensive nonsense..but if it's a harmless thread directed at someone else that turns into a discuss...what's the harm there?
If you prevent those types of threads, wouldn't those people just use FB, aim, msn, or another message board instead? And thus contradict the goal of getting more activity here?
Also, how dare you lock anything Jushiro posts?!
