I will say this is probably the worst episode of the season.

1) I don't like the CMC anyway.
2) It seemed out of character for any of the main six to be so in support of a gossip collum such as this. Especially Rarity, who is in a line of work that tends to have bad gossip about it.
3) They never seem to make a distinction between gossip and stories about people.
4) No way in hell anyone is going to be interested in a schools gossip coll um.

There were a couple saving graces to this episode, the best one being 'et tu sweetie belle?'. Lost my trout on that line.