I am hopeful the ad nauseum part of the deep dives will be minimized because everyone isn't scrolling through 2000 pages trying to find "that post" that has the link to what they want to talk about. Once upon a time, in a galaxy not that far away, when a thread spread to forum size most people posted new updates on the main thread, then spun off to talk about details. If you ( the generic you) don't care about specifics of the suspects, you don't go to that thread. If you don't care about ransom notes, you don't go there. It doesn't mean the info isn't on the main thread, just gives people a place to theorize and dissect information-- if they want to.

Fingers crossed it works that way now.