No, it's a community. It's a messageboard. Its intended purpose is for people to discuss things.
it's a message board, not a community. community is what we make of it, and the community has been pretty clear about what it wants from JA. to say that everything needs to be a discussion is asinine.
you and i are having a discussion here in a thread dedicated to discussion. it was not hard to keep our banter out of a thread dedicated to announcements.. demanding the "right" to blather on where it is clearly not wanted is neither righteous nor supportive of the community.
people don't want endless blah blah in JA. why be a dick and "demand" that your right to spew forth be respected? it's childish.