so, trolls a plenty of late it would seem, with thread deletions everywhere... And a lot of suggestion seems to be that people post here in order to try out the storylines for their latest/first novel.
So what if we were to have a topic where people could do just that? It would be clearly labelled, but anyone posting there could post their "storyline" as if it were a real situation, and people responding could also respond as if it were real, but they would know that it wasn't - iyswim?
So people would be free to get drawn into the story in the same way they might in a book, with op free to give updates etc, but they would know it wasn't real, so people wouldn't be in a position where they were emotionally investing in something which turned out to be deleted two days down the track...
Just a thought ...