I don't think anyone would get ROPs for that. It's a thread which generally people moan about / enquire about ROPs and slag off the mods who awarded them.
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@The_Duke (and most recently myself) have been doing is deleting the comments which have no place in the discussion, that's all.
Two reasons from my own perspective - this is quite a popular thread (and informative for some, as well as rubber-necky for others) people don't really want to read pages and pages about arse cream other than those two or three members talking about it.
As well as this, if members don't want to use the chat feature to continue the irrelevant discussion, there's also a dedicated thread for the pointless and inane comments, entitled "Pointless and Inane Comment Thread".