Fertilizer for the garden.
This is more a trust and ego exercise than it is anything else. Since anyone can make a bread and there are egos who like to insist everyone is a shill, there will always be the threat of some random spazz trying to split breads because he's on a crusade against the aliens who took over the kitchen of his mind.
Likewise, there will always be subversive elements that will attempt to exploit this.
Everyone has a slightly different idea of what the board and breads are supposed to be - and because of that people get their tinfoil out when things don't go the way they think they should.
In all honesty, we probably should have been utilizing topic oriented breads/discussions rather than trying to dump everything into the general. It makes the general too high traffic and makes it more difficult to locate relevant digs. If it's so important it needs to be included as a notable dig, it needs its own thread/bread, or to be posted in a relevant one(s). Let the general kind of do whatever it's going to do.