Never ending threads

[1sexylady]

I don't see any benefit in making a neverending thread board, every thread started has the potential to become one. When would a thread be deemed neverending? How many replies? Who is going to monitor all of the boards 24/7 to move them? Would the GB folks want to have to wade through a zillion PG game threads to fine the 'thread killa' link? If combined, wouldn't it cause more animosity and disruption of threads that work well where they're at? Another thought... a single place for game threads might be appropriate. They are what they are, games.

There are other neverending threads that would be hard to categorize anywhere. Let me think... sex related threads, music threads, restaurant, bar & cafe threads, pool party threads, poetry and writer's threads, and even lifestyle threads that may not have been appropriate on other boards when created.

There are so many neverending threads that you'd have to create many sub-categories to accomodate all of them properly. Are you going to take threads from all existing categories and lump them together in one group solely based on the fact that they are neverending? Combine PG, GB, BDSM, GLBT, Poetry and Literary threads of this nature simply because they are ongoing threads? Sure, the BDSM Flirt thread could easily be moved to the BDSM Cafe, but combining the rest simply for the sake of lumping them together would cause them to lose following in their specific areas. How would new members know where to find them?

On another note, if only those mingled were from the GB and the PG, many might be turned off by sarcastic posts from a handful of GB'ers that love stirring up shit. No, not all GB'ers do that, but as a result of the posts of some, wouldn't they all become GB threads eventually and lose following by PG posters because of content? IMHO, they're all fairly forum specific at this time, and do well where they are at.

The location specific threads could well be lumped together in a sub-category. However, they aren't limited to personals... they contain everyday conversations that would cause them to be removed from the Personals section. If they were given their own place, would they be limited to the discussion of personal ads in that area only? They'd lose 3/4 of their following, if so.

IMHO, there is too much crap going on over the politics of board management. All of this discontent seems to be based on the opinions of moderators, and their ability to take action in performing their duties.

If you are unhappy with the actions of a particular moderator, why didn't you sign up for the job when it was available? Many are quick to voice their discontent, yet where were they when the position was available? Would they have even bothered to agree to be a Mod, and put a lot of their personal time into performing Mod duties?

Oh well, enough said.

QuickDuck, love the bunny!

Well said Arden and I too love the bunny...

 

[Cheyenne]

It would be nice if all posters with over 20,000 posts would go into therapy. Or post in the bdsm cafe.

At least you're learning to say things like "it would be nice" instead of trying to be a Dom and ordering people to do things.

 

[Cheyenne]

I don't see any benefit in making a neverending thread board, every thread started has the potential to become one. When would a thread be deemed neverending? How many replies? Who is going to monitor all of the boards 24/7 to move them? Would the GB folks want to have to wade through a zillion PG game threads to fine the 'thread killa' link? If combined, wouldn't it cause more animosity and disruption of threads that work well where they're at? Another thought... a single place for game threads might be appropriate. They are what they are, games.

There are other neverending threads that would be hard to categorize anywhere. Let me think... sex related threads, music threads, restaurant, bar & cafe threads, pool party threads, poetry and writer's threads, and even lifestyle threads that may not have been appropriate on other boards when created.

There are so many neverending threads that you'd have to create many sub-categories to accomodate all of them properly. Are you going to take threads from all existing categories and lump them together in one group solely based on the fact that they are neverending? Combine PG, GB, BDSM, GLBT, Poetry and Literary threads of this nature simply because they are ongoing threads? Sure, the BDSM Flirt thread could easily be moved to the BDSM Cafe, but combining the rest simply for the sake of lumping them together would cause them to lose following in their specific areas. How would new members know where to find them?

On another note, if only those mingled were from the GB and the PG, many might be turned off by sarcastic posts from a handful of GB'ers that love stirring up shit. No, not all GB'ers do that, but as a result of the posts of some, wouldn't they all become GB threads eventually and lose following by PG posters because of content? IMHO, they're all fairly forum specific at this time, and do well where they are at.

The location specific threads could well be lumped together in a sub-category. However, they aren't limited to personals... they contain everyday conversations that would cause them to be removed from the Personals section. If they were given their own place, would they be limited to the discussion of personal ads in that area only? They'd lose 3/4 of their following, if so.

IMHO, there is too much crap going on over the politics of board management. All of this discontent seems to be based on the opinions of moderators, and their ability to take action in performing their duties.

If you are unhappy with the actions of a particular moderator, why didn't you sign up for the job when it was available? Many are quick to voice their discontent, yet where were they when the position was available? Would they have even bothered to agree to be a Mod, and put a lot of their personal time into performing Mod duties?

Oh well, enough said.

QuickDuck, love the bunny!

You didn't answer my question though- wouldn't it be easier for others to post threads if it wasn't so hard to search through all the neverending threads to find them?

The subforum would be easy. Any thread with 1,000 or more posts moves. By that time, anyone who wants to post in it knows all about it and those who aren't interested in it are sick of looking at it on the thread listing. There are only 100 or200 max of such threads now. It wouldn't be a big deal to monitor them and move all threads when they hit 1,000 posts. People would adapt and would know where to find them once they were moved. Just like people adapted and found the Playground after it was created out of the personals board mid-2002.

My first choice though is still just to have an ignore thread feature. That may take some time for Laurel and Manu to arrange, however.

My comments in this thread have nothing to do with the moderators at the Playground (we have none on the general board) so I'll skip answering that part of your post.

 

[someplace]

I agree with Arden and TWB. By continually subcatagorizing threads and forums, the main body of ideas is so compentalized that the general community is depleted of energy and ideas, much like the dregs remaining in the bottom of a coffee pot (as those people tend to stay in their new compartmentalized area). Sure it may not be "tidy" to have threads bunched together, but that doesn't seem to stop people from continually reading and posting in them, now does it?