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Ofcourse you know what you (and the other mods) did better than me.
But as far as I can recall, the primary reason the BLR was removed was that it was eating up too much traffic from the CW thread.
However, now might be a good time to experiment? It might breathe new life into the website, yada yada. I'd wager that it being its own pinned thread instead of its own comment nested within the CW thread might change how people interact with those two threads.
Basically my suggestion/idea is to foster two different communities within the website, one that comes for the BLR, and finds their way into the CW thread. And the current resident CWR posters. The ruleset for the BLR can be slightly relaxed to ease in newcomers. Sort of like a CWR lite to create a pipeline of the type of posters you want, train and vet them before letting them reign free in the CWR.
With admin level control you can limit the comment length in the BLR (max 300-400 words maybe?) to prevent cannibalization, if they REALLY want to talk about it, they can take it to the CWR.
The quality was actually the major problem! This post was what got me convinced that it needed to be solved, and here is where I did the actual removal.
I think we maybe just don't want the people who come for the BLR? At least, we don't want the people who stay in the BLR, and we don't want people to leave the main thread for the BLR, and we don't want the problems caused by people posting low-quality stuff in the BLR.
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