[Nyororin]

A topic just has to fulfill ONE of the criteria - not all of them.

The general discussion area used to be so full of pointless topics and random posts like "Hey, my day sucked" and "OMG it started raining!" that it was entirely impossible for any decent discussion to hang around. Topics worth discussing were buried deep under hundreds of random outbursts.

So the rules were changed so that topics need to fulfill some very basic criteria - one or more of those listed by MMM.