I would argue that the scuttlebutt type topics are what drive a lot of traffic to the site. If this place becomes just a archive for technical discussion and incident reports, it becomes…well…boring. Not saying those items aren’t of great importance and value, but for the average day-to-day web surfing mariner, if that’s all that’s here, it will probably get bypassed. Not just everybody is deeply interested in “parametric rolling of a car carrier in head seas”
So, I would counter, how much is gCaptain willing to pay for decreased traffic?