I would be. I’ve noticed that I’ve been trolling and ruining a lot of good threads and going off-topic and I feel guilty. I feel that this is because I’m used to forums where I can organize and confine myself well, whereas the fast-moving blog-like format lends itself to my spammy chaotic nature.

Reasons for forums:

1) When things get off-topic (as they often do), OT posts get split, and can be moved to an appropriate subforum, like a politics forum or a flame forum or a spam forum. These lesser forum serve as living garbage dumps, where things few care about get thrown to the trolls.

2) Longer threads (of which there are many here) are easily broken into more readable units. Also, signatures help to act as visual cues between posts.

3) It adds more flexibility to the general discourse, and likewise keeps the comments more on track.

4) Builds community. I recognize a lot of regular posters, but I can’t really make them out clearly as I do on forums. Just a lot of names without personality.