That said, however, I have become frustrated at the tendency by some to be so critical of any positive call-outs of less selective schools. Below is an edit that ended up needing to be made to the OP on the schools hitting above their weight in the getting doctorates thread mentioned above:
This means that posts #23-64 and #66-138 and #140-194 were all quibbles about the methodology or explanations of the intent of the thread. Very few readers that are actually interested in the thread topic are likely to wade through all the argumentation to get to the substance of the topic.
This does not mean that valid critiques are not warranted. But having the same (or substantially similar) criticisms repeated ad nauseum are not helpful. So if someone wants to indicate the limitations of LinkedIn as a source, or the caliber of grad schools, or whatever, that’s fine. But when it turns into the majority of the thread, then the thread is completely derailed.
And when threads that are designed to help a larger portion of high school seniors identify schools that could be a good match for them are derailed, seemingly because of the lack of focus on exclusive schools, it makes me wonder about the purpose of the forum.
Thus, I would propose that an additional guideline be added to the forum’s existing rules, perhaps under Discussion, Not Debate. No more than X number of posts reiterating the same point, regardless of the author. Although this had been proposed at some point in a different discussion about the forum and I saw the utility to have multiple posters emphasize a point, when it completely derails a thread, I think it causes more harm than good. Perhaps just using the 
and 
to emphasize which posts one mostly agrees with if there have already been X number of posts on the topic. Or perhaps the 
icon can be added so people can voice their continued disagreement on a topic.
Thoughts?