An observation (which I first noticed a week or two ago):
The intent of this "Questions" thread was to accumulate the random questions that people were asking as a way to avoid thread spam. There is a different "Changes Discussions" thread which is intended to deal with discussion of the changes as Steve posts them (since the Changes thread is locked IIRC to everyone but Steve so it can be a noiseless rules repository).
This protocol appears to be breaking down. People are discussing changes in this thread and asking questions in the other thread, which can lead to a lot of ninja posts, especially for the discussions. An example of this is that right now we've got the "stabilize Lagrange points" discussion going on in both threads, and I just put up a post in Discussion that went over some stuff that was already covered in Questions.
Now the opinion: I think we should either try to have more discipline in terms of keeping the threads distinct (and politely guiding people to the proper thread when they mis-post), or retire one of the two threads by locking it. I think the worst choice would be to keep going as-is. I prefer the first choice (try to keep two distinct threads), since I think there's value for newcomers in having a thread that acts as a pseudo-FAQ without a lot of discussion noise in it, but am ok with the second.
Thoughts?
John