If the mods think that the parent threads are “low-value,” they clearly haven’t seen the types of things we discuss (and how much money they cost). The mods must have AdBlock running on their computers, because otherwise they’d see all the Nordstrom’s, Neiman Marcus and other high-end ads that show up on the page! And besides, after we finish paying all this ^%$# tuition, we have disposable income again.
I suspect a certain MOB thread recently accounted for sales of a large number of dresses, and not just for MOBs! 
These parent threads are a community creation. It would be nice to have that respected.