The difficulty is that then the "chat" would spill into B&S like it did before. This is a Q and A site, which has a chat element. Perhaps there ought to be a "chat forum" to keep the other topics "clean" and trolls away.
Wasn't there a change of Ed's a couple of years ago? New staff brought in. I think it was before the current Ed that CB was removed and everybody was posting in B&S.
To me it doesn't make a difference whether posts are in CB or not - I always use Latest Posts to see what's going on and that's how I saw all the posts today - I only trawl the Topics if there is not much going on. What do other people do?