discussions on the announce forum/list?

[Brad Roberts]

On 7/15/2019 6:55 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> But *please do not discuss the blog post or its topic in this thread*! 
> Use the post in the Announce forum for that:
> 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/hetwxvibgqcmoltvnoda@forum.dlang.org

Wait, what?  Why are we encouraging / having _discussions_ on the 
_announce_ list?  I know we've never prevented them in the past, but 
this is probably the first time I've seen active encouragement.  While 
I'm not an particularly active member of the community these days, I 
strongly disagree with this policy.