Second Citizens narrowly avoid certain death !

A cataclysmic forum disaster has been averted.
This blogger interviewed a leading nuclear forum scientist for an explanation.

blogger: Good afternoon.
scientist: Good afternoon, Peasan.
blogger: Could you explain, in simple terms, just what happened ?
scientist: I will try. Are you familiar with the normal operation of a forums ?
blogger: Not really.
scientist: Well, a forums essentially consists of an outer commentsphere, a smaller threadcreationsphere and the Forums Inner Core.
The entire forums is controlled by nuclear forum reactions that take place in the inner core. Subtle interactions between informons, funnons and dramons are the lifeblood of a forums.
blogger: I see.
scientist: The potentially dangerous reactions in the inner core are moderated by the Forum Control Rods which can be moved in and out of the core. At some point in the past few weeks, control rods J1, J2 and M2 seriously malfunctioned causing a dangerous buildup of dramons.
blogger: And this is serious ?
scientist: Good lord, yes. If the number of dramons exceeds the Safe Limit this can lead to a dramon chain reaction which produces more dramons at a rate that cannot be controlled. This, in turn, causes the conversion of informons and funnons into further dramons until the entire Inner Core consists of dramons.
If this is allowed to continue then a core meltdown is inevitable leading to a catastrophic explosion that could harm teh intarwebs.
blogger: But surely there are other control rods ?
scientist: Yes. Usually that is the case, but in a severe dramon buildup, other control rods voluntarily remove themselves from the core which allows the dramon buildup to continue. This leads to the runaway dramon chain-reaction.
blogger: !
scientist: You may well say ‘!’. In this case, for reasons that we do not yet understand, one of the malfunctioning rods temporarily removed itself from the core and another announced that it was ‘just funnin’, is all’.
blogger: And things then returned to normal ?
scientist: Almost. One control rod is still exhibiting curious behaviour, but we are confident that it can be kept in check.
blogger: Would it not be better to simply remove these rogue control rods altogether ?
scientist: No. That would cause the core to swing the other way causing a buildup of informons and a few funnons which leads to forum stasis. This is not dangerous, but it is rather dull.
blogger: So what you are saying is that a healthy forums requires a certain number of dramons.
scientist: Exactly ! Are you a scientist ?
blogger: No, I am a porcupine.
scientist: I see.
blogger: Please continue.
scientist: Yes. That is what I am saying. As long as the number of dramons does not exceed the Safe Limit, they will harmlessly interact with the informons and funnons leading to the desired rate of thread creation.
blogger: Well, let’s hope that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.
scientist: I’m afraid you are an optimist.
blogger: No, I am still a porcupine.
scientist: I’d like to leave now.

So please, for the safety of teh Intarwebs, keep dramon creation below the Safe Limit. You know it makes sense.

kthx

Peasan