Lose the reply function to qotw
It just descends into whining and one-upmanship every week now. Let people go off topic if they want but I find that it detracts from some of the answers, and sometimes the replies end up being the reason why a not particularly good story wins.

Thank you
(pooster found out how long a piece of string was on, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 0:13, 8 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 8:05, Reply)

Hah,
just realised you'd already suggested this as a reply to the integrate the boards suggestion. Didn't mean to copy you, it must just be a really good idea. :)
(pooster found out how long a piece of string was on, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Brilliant minds think alike.
As do complete fucking idiots.

It's trying to work out which group one belongs to that's the tricky bit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPmb0F00YPE
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 9:38, Reply)

Bollocks.
If the replies are the reason some posts win, excellent. Read the replies.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:52, Reply)

Okay
But then we should rename QOTW 'Let's all have an argument' just so that people are clear that that's what they have to do now. 'Best/Worst comeback of the week' might work too...
(pooster found out how long a piece of string was on, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 9:22, Reply)

It's part of The Internet and is accessible by boys.
Isn't the "let's all have a row" aspect already taken for granted?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 11:44, Reply)

I prefer the 'let's all have a cup of tea' path myself
It used to be ace though. Looking back on the archived answers(which I did a lot of whilst waiting to sprout), before the reply function was added, so many of them were causing me tears of laughter or were brutally honest. I liked it when they seemed to have the veneer of truth and weren't pandering to a perceived fanclub that certain posters appear to believe they have. It takes itself far too seriously now.

(I'm aware that I am also taking it a bit seriously-but I let my stories be once written, none of that replying for me).
(pooster found out how long a piece of string was on, Wed 23 Mar 2011, 19:24, Reply)