those kinds of threads don't really encourage any discussion and are a dime a dozen on every other imageboard, so I think it's fine that they get autosaged and therefore drop off the front page soon enough. threads about personal stories can work well if they are interesting or fun, and if what you're posting isn't interesting or fun you gotta reconsider whether it's really worth posting. I'd probably contribute at least one post to a grilled cheese thread if I saw one. would I do it for yet another thread about how a guy on the internet is sad and doesn't like his mom? no.

and just one look at the posts in the thread itself should tell you that even before it was autosaged, no one cared to engage with it to begin with. so clearly the autosage isn't what killed it.