Top Gear "Dead Horse" subforum

Labcoatguy · February 17th, 2008, 08:12 PM

What with the influx of n00bs making "Top Gear Quotes" and "I know who the Stig is!" and "Why haven't they tested the Bugatti Veyron?", there needs to be a place where all these topics are banished and their original threads mummified for future reference. Basically a "FPT" (frequently posted thread) forum. Thoughts?

BlaRo · February 17th, 2008, 09:25 PM

Because if we did, noobs wouldn't know to look there anyway. images/smilies/dry.gif

matt2000 · February 17th, 2008, 09:37 PM

Make it very colourful and put it somewhere obvious, they will be naturally attracted to it. Sounds like a decent idea though. images/smilies/smile.gif

Austere · February 17th, 2008, 09:59 PM

Couldn't noobs be automatically re-directed to it the moment they sign up?

ESPNSTI · February 18th, 2008, 02:26 PM

Only thing I can think of is to do something like they do at AVS Forum, where they show similar threads when you try to create a new one:

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epp_b · February 18th, 2008, 05:45 PM

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Because if we did, noobs wouldn't know to look there anyway.

True. However, mods/admins could move such threads to the sub-forum, where everyone else could easily ignore them images/smilies/smile.gif

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Only thing I can think of is to do something like they do at AVS Forum, where they show similar threads when you try to create a new one

I like that idea, too.

Prost264 · February 18th, 2008, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ESPNSTI

Only thing I can think of is to do something like they do at AVS Forum, where they show similar threads when you try to create a new one:

ah very nice, +1 for that idea

edit: add the Bugatti to the "dead horse" list

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