Xxain it pisses me off to no end the way you put xx instead of ex. I thought you should know...
Aaaaaanyway, I kinda agree with the sentiment of the OP, but instead of posting a thread bitching about it you should've actually made one of these fantastic gaming discussion threads you speak of.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I think there should be a separate sub-forum for games like Mafia, Elimination games & spammy 'say something about the user above' threads which is blocked from the 'hot topics' by default and if people want these to appear in the 'hot topics' section then they have to trigger a setting manually. That way all of these threads would be basically non-existant for users who don't like them, and those who do like them won't be pestered by topics such as this complaining about their existance.
Simples!
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right