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I feel like I've brought this up before but it's been a while so I'm doing it again.
I fucking hate all of the various random/awesome threads that are hundreds or thousands of pages long. How am I supposed to keep up with them and avoid missing anything? I suspect that like most people who browse these forums, I don't read every single post that's made. I skim thread titles and read things that look interesting. How am I supposed to do that when a large number of topics are crammed into one thread? I mean the extreme version of this would be every single post on this forum in one big thread. It's not that bad but sometimes it sure feels like it.
The server doesn't care if you make a new thread. You aren't charged a dollar per thread you make.
Forums are supposed to be asynchronous -- you write a post and wait on replies. If you want to shoot the breeze, then hop on IRC. IRC is all about the now and no one is expected to scroll up and read past conversations like you are here on the forums. I mean that's the whole purpose of the "New Posts" functionality and skipping to the first post in a thread. If a thread is getting dozens or hundreds of posts a day, how is anyone supposed to keep up with that?
I would like to suggest that we try locking the meta threads. We should have a separate thread per discussion subject. Find something cool? Make a new thread! It doesn't hurt anything and people will actually be able to see it instead of having it be buried on page 638 of some random thread.
Or am I alone in this feeling?
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I should clarify that I think there are some exceptions, such as the New Toys thread. It doesn't make sense to make a thread about my new monitor. The aviation thread is another example.
But the awesome automotive thread? So much cool stuff gets buried in there, such as this movie trailer.
I fucking hate all of the various random/awesome threads that are hundreds or thousands of pages long. How am I supposed to keep up with them and avoid missing anything? I suspect that like most people who browse these forums, I don't read every single post that's made. I skim thread titles and read things that look interesting. How am I supposed to do that when a large number of topics are crammed into one thread? I mean the extreme version of this would be every single post on this forum in one big thread. It's not that bad but sometimes it sure feels like it.
The server doesn't care if you make a new thread. You aren't charged a dollar per thread you make.
Forums are supposed to be asynchronous -- you write a post and wait on replies. If you want to shoot the breeze, then hop on IRC. IRC is all about the now and no one is expected to scroll up and read past conversations like you are here on the forums. I mean that's the whole purpose of the "New Posts" functionality and skipping to the first post in a thread. If a thread is getting dozens or hundreds of posts a day, how is anyone supposed to keep up with that?
I would like to suggest that we try locking the meta threads. We should have a separate thread per discussion subject. Find something cool? Make a new thread! It doesn't hurt anything and people will actually be able to see it instead of having it be buried on page 638 of some random thread.
Or am I alone in this feeling?
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I should clarify that I think there are some exceptions, such as the New Toys thread. It doesn't make sense to make a thread about my new monitor. The aviation thread is another example.
But the awesome automotive thread? So much cool stuff gets buried in there, such as this movie trailer.
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