Do we want to keep political and/or religious in 1 thread?
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Do we want to keep political and/or religious in 1 thread?
Now that we have an OT forum (this one, the Pub), some folks have raised a good question. Should we continue to try to keep the political and religious posts in the mega-thread?
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Yes, if it will reduce the possibility of hijackings that turn nasty.
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I would like to suggest that we have two sticky megathreads, one "Mostly Political" and one "Mostly Religious," but take a lenient view if people want to post something on either topic in a separate thread.
That way, many political or religious items will go in the megathreads, helping to keep the board from becoming overrun by many separate religious or political threads, but there will be some separate religious and political threads running too.
(As is my usual policy in such matters, I feel very strongly both ways.)
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That way, many political or religious items will go in the megathreads, helping to keep the board from becoming overrun by many separate religious or political threads, but there will be some separate religious and political threads running too.
(As is my usual policy in such matters, I feel very strongly both ways.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
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Well here's another way. Let's also have a frivolous and frothy megathread.Jerry Freeman wrote:I would like to suggest that we have two sticky megathreads, one "Mostly Political" and one "Mostly Religious," but take a lenient view if people want to post something on either topic in a separate thread.
That way, many political or religious items will go in the megathreads, helping to keep the board from becoming overrun by many separate religious or political threads, but there will be some separate religious and political threads running too.
(As is my usual policy in such matters, I feel very strongly both ways.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
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Yeah--what he said.Jerry Freeman wrote:I would like to suggest that we have two sticky megathreads, one "Mostly Political" and one "Mostly Religious," but take a lenient view if people want to post something on either topic in a separate thread.
That way, many political or religious items will go in the megathreads, helping to keep the board from becoming overrun by many separate religious or political threads, but there will be some separate religious and political threads running too.
(As is my usual policy in such matters, I feel very strongly both ways.)
Best wishes,
Jerry
I kept looking for the radio button that offered a third choice--one political and one religious thread. Or make them go to yet another forum--Pub Brawl, maybe.
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Seems to me, there's quite a bit of frothing goes on in that sticky thread as it is.Darwin wrote:Does this mean that the political/religious sticky thread was supposed to be taken seriously? Oops!Wombat wrote:Well here's another way. Let's also have a frivolous and frothy megathread.
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Since we have an Off-Topic forum now, I'd prefer to see separate threads per subject, meaning there could be hundreds of political threads and hundreds of religious threads. No one in their right mind would ever page back through that mega thread looking for a certain post. You'd use search if you could remember the subject. But, if every subject were threaded seperately, it would be easy to see which page you wanted to get to for a particular post within.
The mega thread should not be nuked or taken out of the data base. The contents need to be maintained for searching. There's a lot of good stuff there that is still useful.
The mega thread should not be nuked or taken out of the data base. The contents need to be maintained for searching. There's a lot of good stuff there that is still useful.