Zone1 Why haven't all the Trump indictment threads been consolidated?

[1srelluc]

How many threads do we need on the same thing?

 

[okfine]

Hell if I know!

 

[mak2]

It aint easy being a mod.

 

[1srelluc]

It aint easy being a mod.

They get the use of one the company's fleet of Yugos from what I hear.

 

[mak2]

They get the use of one the company's fleet of Yugos from what I hear.

And I hear the break room has a craft brewery. Oh, they have the life.

 

[MisterBeale]

How many threads do we need on the same thing?

There are certain criteria that we use, to merge or otherwise lock threads, to keep too many threads from proliferating on the same topic.

It is not our job to keep track of every thread.

If this is annoying you, and you see it as a problem, because you keep seeing them, help a brother out, find them, link them, and report them.

There is several criteria we use to merge, or lock repeat content.

First, it must be with in three days of each other.

Second, they have to be in the same sub-forum. If one thread is in Breaking News, and another is in politics, we don't move threads across sub-forums, just to merge them. Nor do we lock threads, just because there is a discussion going on in some other part of the forum.

Are the conversations identitcal, truly? If they are not, merging them will be very confusing, because merges integrate posts by date and time, it is best to only merge posts that are happening near the same time.

What you are asking, is, to essentially quash speech you don't want to see. . .

Is that it?

So to recap? If you find two threads, that are within 48 to 72 hours of each other, and they are in the same sub-forum, and the topic they are addressing, IS IDENTICAL, report them both, WITH LINKS to them, and yes, we will do something about them.

 

[Coyote]

As Mr. Beale said, help us out here. Report it and link to the dupe.

 

[easyt65]

How many threads do we need on the same thing?

There are nany different angles, facets, issues to focus on in this case. Lumping them all together makes it hard to keep the topics separated ... but they can probably be reduced.

 

[1srelluc]

What you are asking, is, to essentially quash speech you don't want to see. . .

Is that it?

Negative, in fact I find that insinuation very insulting.

It just seems to me that 35 Trump threads (I quit counting at 35) on the active topics page is a bit much.

Maybe Trump needs his own sub-forum given the obsession (left or right) with him.

I mean there is a year and a half of this crap to go yet.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I mean there is a year and a half of this crap to go yet.

....and then, quite possibly, four more years after that.

 

[1srelluc]

....and then, quite possibly, four more years after that.

That's right!

 

[Delldude]

Negative, in fact I find that insinuation very insulting.

It just seems to me that 35 Trump threads (I quit counting at 35) on the active topics page is a bit much.

Maybe Trump needs his own sub-forum given the obsession (left or right) with him.

I mean there is a year and a half of this crap to go yet.

Become a mod and see how merging threads suck....especially when you work for free.

 

[mak2]

....and then, quite possibly, four more years after that.

or 8 or 12 who knows?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

There are certain criteria that we use, to merge or otherwise lock threads, to keep too many threads from proliferating on the same topic.

It is not our job to keep track of every thread.

If this is annoying you, and you see it as a problem, because you keep seeing them, help a brother out, find them, link them, and report them.

There is several criteria we use to merge, or lock repeat content.

First, it must be with in three days of each other.

Second, they have to be in the same sub-forum. If one thread is in Breaking News, and another is in politics, we don't move threads across sub-forums, just to merge them. Nor do we lock threads, just because there is a discussion going on in some other part of the forum.

Are the conversations identitcal, truly? If they are not, merging them will be very confusing, because merges integrate posts by date and time, it is best to only merge posts that are happening near the same time.

What you are asking, is, to essentially quash speech you don't want to see. . .

Is that it?

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So to recap? If you find two threads, that are within 48 to move 72 hours of each other, and they are in the same sub-forum, and the topic they are addressing, IS IDENTICAL, report them both, WITH LINKS to them, and yes, we will do something about them.

Sure seems easy enough for the mods when I post a thread. They're ALWAYS quick to move, lock or delete.

 

[MisterBeale]

Maybe Trump needs his own sub-forum given the obsession (left or right) with him.

I definitely don't disagree with that, but monkeying around with the inherent structure of the forum is administrative work, not moderator work, and the basic governing philosophy at this place, seems to be, for the members, moderators, and admin, to put in as little effort as possible.




Keep in mind, we still have a sum-forum named, "tea-party."

 

[MisterBeale]

Sure seems easy enough for the mods when I post a thread. They're ALWAYS quick to move, lock or delete.

Perhaps you and basq. should collaborate and give a USMB Ted Talk on how to violate the clean start rule like old pros?

 

[1srelluc]

I definitely don't disagree with that, but monkeying around with the inherent structure of the forum is administrative work, not moderator work, and the basic governing philosophy at this place, seems to be, for the members, moderators, and admin, to put in as little effort as possible.




Keep in mind, we still have a sum-forum named, "tea-party."

Must be where the old Paul-Bots go to die.

 

[DudleySmith]

They get the use of one the company's fleet of Yugos from what I hear.

The Yugo was a good simple design; it took a major effort by dumbass socialists to fuck it up. It could have been the modern VW bug, cheap, reliable, and exportable. There is a book on its history around here somewhere, but I don't remember which pile it's in.

The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

The Yugo was a small car made in the former nation of Yugoslavia that survives in the American consciousness as the ultimate automotive…

www.librarypoint.org

I still think such a project is possible, just not in eastern Europe; maybe Mexico or Brazil.

 

[Mac-7]

How many threads do we need on the same thing?

Libs are having too much fun to limit themselves to just one thread

 

[1srelluc]

The Yugo was a good simple design; it took a major effort by dumbass socialists to fuck it up. It could have been the modern VW bug, cheap, reliable, and exportable. There is a book on its history around here somewhere, but I don't remember which pile it's in.

The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

The Yugo was a small car made in the former nation of Yugoslavia that survives in the American consciousness as the ultimate automotive…

www.librarypoint.org

I still think such a project is possible, just not in eastern Europe; maybe Mexico or Brazil.

I always wanted a VW Thing PU that was not made of old Schlitz beer cans. I swear you could watch them rust.