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Message ID: 24
#24, RE: Megathread Prevention
Posted by LostFactor on Nov-26-01 at 03:21 PM
In response to message #1
>Second: Everybody else who thinks that this is a big, tremendously
>important and inconvienencing problem worth ranting and bothering the
>moderators about, raise you hand. *sits on his*

I do. I learned my first big lesson about that by making one of my first posts in the "NXE Hostility" thread. That was very, very stupid of me, not just because of the resultant vitriol spewed by all sides (oddly enough, none of whom disliked NXE) but in resurrecting a thread that was far too cumbersome to begin with. And the fact that my own theories about DJ/Lucifer thread has gotten resurrected a couple of times since I posted something I figured would more or less cap off discussions there makes me think that such a feature is pretty important. (Never mind that both "resurrections" were of questionable merit.)

There's a big tendency - of everyone on the boards - to go off-topic pretty quickly, and get involved in an off-topic discussion without meaning to. The ability to break such off-topic threads off into a brand-new thread in a more appropriate area would be a welcome addition. After all, half of the 30+ threads are ones that have about 30 posts on the subject originally stated and lots of others that aren't even distantly related. I don't mind it when people go off-topic, but when threads start getting cumbersome, such a feature would make them far more managable.
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