Unsticking the Dub Title Guess Thread:Sure, why not. It's not like it's important, and less clutter is good.
I will say that I am in favor of keeping speculation threads the way they are (although I do like the suggestion of updating the first post with info and summaries, including basic rules and probably a link to the TV Tokyo preview).
Updating the posts of new title threads with info+summaries(preferably along with the date they were revealed, so that we don't have to figure out what's actually new and what isn't whenever we look at the first post) is an excellent idea. I'd really love to see a clampdown on the pointless, almost spammy speculation that goes on between when we first hear of a title and when we get
actual info about the episode(not just "Cynthia might show up in one of the Johtopalooza episodes because Bulbapedia might have said..."-style "info"), but then again, if I can just look at the first post to see if there's new info...I won't be wading through pages of terrible "speculation" posts anyway. Thank god for that, since there's nothing worse in a speculation thread than the time between a title reveal and the revealing of good, relevant info about what happens in an episode.
And the initial post in title reveal threads is often pretty worthless anyway. "Whoo, a TITLE. Go nuts, guys." Basically what I'm saying is that you could lock the title reveal threads after a page of discussion happens, then re-open them when actual info comes out and the quality of the threads would actually increase. Hopefully the people who like posting such gems as "Dawn's getting a Chikorita because a Chikorita is mentioned in this episode title" and "Dawn's getting a Togepi from Cynthia because this ep involves Togepi and Cynthia's totally appearing because Bulbapedia said so for 15 minutes before someone edited the page back to its correct state" don't just go elsewhere in the anime forums for their useless posting needs.
I still think we need a little more organization in the speculation threads. I don't know about the rest of you, but I find it annoying when the eps in a title reveal thread are going to air in a couple of weeks and there's still only one thread for two(or, god forbid, THREE) episodes that are going to be getting a lot of new discussion and info. I can't think of any nice way to split the title reveal threads into nice, orderly seperate-episode-speculation threads more than a week before all the episodes air, though.
Finally, burn the Piplup whiners. Burn them with fire. It was
kinda funny and understandable when that first started...
two years ago.
(I think. How long HAS it been since people first started getting annoyed with Piplup?) Unless you're willing to write a 3 page, double-spaced paper(using Times New Roman, of course) on the evolution of Piplup's character and why society has shunned it so much after its novelty wore off, don't freaking bash Piplup. We've heard it before. At least 250 times. Per day. I was around for people complaining about Munchlax, Max, Torkoal(and how it's NEVER USED FOR ANYTHING EVER), and other such glorious memories of AG, but none of those were
this bad. At least that one guy who always insisted on calling Buizel
Boo-izel went away.