Here's how I view it:

I don't like General Chat. Remember my one LJ entry about "bull questionnaires?" I didn't like them. I didn't want a new rule made, or for them to be closed, but I was just saying how I didn't like them. You couldn't make a rule "don't make useless threads" or close threads that you view to not have a purpose. But I said, I just don't like them, and therefore I don't go into General Chat much.