What is the point of having links to the "most popular" threads?

North Wildwood - What is the point of having links to the "most popular" threads? So that we might participate in intelligent discourse with our neighbors on a variety of subjects? Check out any thread with double digit comments and you will find nothing more than a juvenile slugfest between the two most immature "contributors." Isn't this one of the reasons the Cape May County forum was removed from this website?