I hope you can appreciate and understand that the decision was made, in part, because we had users asking for it.
So the squeaky wheel gets the oil it sounds like. I see a bunch of people in this thread saying it's a terrible idea. What's the bar for action?
However it won’t be possible to make every user here happy.
I understand but there are other solutions besides banning incredibly relevant topics.
We’ve taken the actions that we thought were best based on the desires of some of our users.
As a former mod I respect this, truly, and I'm not going to go on crusade here I'm keeping my thoughts here for now. But the fact is we both know megathreads do not stay active and no one likes to participate in them because they know no one sees them. At the bare minimum you need this to be a weekly megathread you post. This is way too broad to just entirely prohibit outside of a single thread no one will see. If you're taking suggestions, that's my slightly-less-crappy solution.
At the very least I'd respect this a lot more if we didn't pretend this didn't end these topics for good.