I can see where you are coming from, Dreamer. You don't want either side to feel censored or silenced, etc. And you don't want there to be attacks or vitriol either.
The only reason I feel it's better to have two separate threads for both sides is so that the people for it wouldn't have to read ours and maybe would lay off with the complaining or trying to go after our arguments, and then they could have their threads where they feel likeminded people would be discussing it with them and not "ruining" their shows. Which is still baffling as to why that was brought up.
It was certainly a problem in 3.0 where they would try to invalidate our opinions and then would claim we were raining on their parade, yet we mostly stay out of their positive threads. I know that for me, only having a place for positive opinions for the new lineup and no negative opinions would lead me to being very upset. My whole motto is if you don't like something we say in 3.0 - don't read it. It will be easier on you because we, or at least I, have no intention of not discussing it. Now I'm not saying you can't, but I know for me if there is an article or a thread that really upsets me to the point of feeling anger, I'm going to choose to avoid it. Not because I couldn't read it or post in it, but I'm choosing to do something to help keep me sane. It works. I feel while there can be and is debating on the new lineup, I have more of a problem with people taking other's opinions on said debate to task, when none of them are wrong. If that happens, then I'm ok with segregating it. I think subjectivity has it's place and is very much that person's own viewpoint and should be protected from invalidation.
I don't think there is an acceptable solution at this point either. I say let the chips fall where they may. I don't think there is a way to make everyone happy here. People will either learn to ignore things that upset them that are just mere opinions (not attacks, which of course would be worthy of upset), or they will move on from the board. I think the way it's being handled now is fine. You and Soda and the other mods do a great job of keeping the peace. Kudos to you all.