Excuse me, but Origin's expectations of the thread were met, or at least people kept trying. I don't think he was the one who closed it this time, anyways.
And I realize the old pairings thread was spammy with people not following instructions and all, but since people are still putting in an effort to correct them, who cares? It happens in almost every thread that has rules. Also, this last one was NOT spammy.
And also, why bring it up in DCC when not everybody checks it for pairings/relationship information? The thread goes too fast, not every message posted in there will get through to the right people. And like I said, relationships are rarely talked about in DCC.
As I said, the premise of the Pairing Thread now is:
-To add yourself and your pair on to the list
-To remove yourself and an ex-pair on the list
-To congratulate people on getting paired.
Why not use the DCC for talking about relationships/pairings? It'd give the place a strong topic of interest to discuss for a while, seems like as good a place as any to me.
And, like I said before, we've had Romance Threads in Other Chat before that were separate from the Pairing Thread, I think the problem came from the two of them being linked into one thread.