Cheapskate Bruce
ugh, I never understood those "official" unofficial threads. I mean, people do surely realize that any user made thread is always 100% unofficial. Sticking "official" on there used to grate my gears back when. Those fan threads -past and present- have 0% discussion or theories, just a lot of off-topic talk, and people being uninterested in anything really.
Fan threads are fine, just please no one ever use "official" again unless you work for Gaia and what you post is canon.
I think the reason those popped up is because back when Gaia was MUCH more active than they are now, it was a good way to help keep there from being 50 threads about the same thing, sort of a long-term thread on something specific and official got into the names to promote their usage over similar threads. They also tended to be the threads that staff occasionally posted in, which gave them some measure of formality.
As dead as we've been lately, there's really no need for competing threads or methods of keeping the board clean as it's a struggle to get any kind of conversation going beyond item updates.