Weekly might be too often for stupid questions threads-- the stupid questions don't seem to build up all that quickly. A thread every month or two might work better.
Yeah. A not insignificant portion of the comments on the Open Thread could be put under that category, and my hope was to relocated those comments. But, based on comment counts, that hasn't happened.
This week's open thread is less than a day old, and has already accumulated more comments than the 15 latest non-open-thread posts combined. I fear the thread will wither and die before Friday.
Going from monthly to weekly open threads was a big hit. Should we ratchet up open thread frequency even more? Should we add more outlets for comments, or will comments inevitably expand to fill the available room?
Proposal for discussion: We follow a regimen of weekly blather threads for the next two weeks, then reassess.
Addendum
I posted a Links on Friday and a Stupid Questions on Monday. In the 5 post-days that they've been up, they've accumulated 32 comments. Based on these numbers, it seems unlikely that these topical open threads will relieve pressure on the main Open Thread and so I've stopped the experiment.