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Protostar · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:23 am Post subject: Common Topics Forum

I think there should be a Common Topics forum for topics that have been rehashed over and over and over again. These topics would include Social Security, Gay Marriage, Drug Prohibition, etc. I think this would be useful so that newbies to the forums don't create topics that have already been discussed over and over again.

Protostar · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

C'mon, not one person thought it was a good idea? Maybe I should included a poll. People seem to like polls.

Nico · Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 10827 Location: Auckland

It's a good idea in many respects but when common topics get stickied people often want to start a fresh thread so they don't have to read one with 40 pages or go to a quieter forum. Just human nature I think. Half the threads in P&G could be easily moved to other forums but people who post there do so because they want the instant feedback. Hence 15 threads on Iran or Bush. I tried to keep the Middle east stuff in the M.E. forum once but some of the same people who would talk about thread repitition kept posting in P&G anyway without going to see acres of existing stuff on the same topics in the other forum.
I think there will always be a large element of subject re-hashing when a forum is turning over as fast as P&G. It can be an unwieldy beast.

Stygma · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1346 Location: Boulder, Colorado

I would say that more threads and more repeats are not a bad thing.

Quicksurf · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 4675

Stygma wrote: I would say that more threads and more repeats are not a bad thing.

I agree. When topics get to long sometimes people just stray away from the same old debate over and over again.

Yet when it is brought up in a fresh new perspective, often times people might debate it differently.

FCTE · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 19118

Protostar wrote: I think there should be a Common Topics forum for topics that have been rehashed over and over and over again. These topics would include Social Security, Gay Marriage, Drug Prohibition, etc. I think this would be useful so that newbies to the forums don't create topics that have already been discussed over and over again.

:td:

What we need is a forum titled "FCTE's Place" where the only valid and great ideas come to fruition.

TheGirlNextDoor · Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 22608

FCTE wrote: Protostar wrote: I think there should be a Common Topics forum for topics that have been rehashed over and over and over again. These topics would include Social Security, Gay Marriage, Drug Prohibition, etc. I think this would be useful so that newbies to the forums don't create topics that have already been discussed over and over again.

:td:

What we need is a forum titled "FCTE's Place" where the only valid and great ideas come to fruition.

Sounds like an empire to me.

FCTE · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 19118

TheGirlNextDoor wrote: Sounds like an empire to me.

Now you're talking. :tu:

TheGirlNextDoor · Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 22608

FCTE wrote: TheGirlNextDoor wrote: Sounds like an empire to me.

Now you're talking. :tu:

Bah. I'm not minion material.

FCTE · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 19118

TheGirlNextDoor wrote: FCTE wrote: TheGirlNextDoor wrote: Sounds like an empire to me.

Now you're talking. :tu:

Bah. I'm not minion material.

You could be my first wife................... of many. :)

Seizing control of both houses of Congress, all means of production and manufacturing, all utilities, imprisoning all dissenters into forced labor camps, initiating massive drafts, and replacing local law enforcement with military rule is not going to be easy for just one person. :twisted:

Gus · Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 7609 Location: Tampa, FL

It'll double the amount of work I have to do. Ergo, no.

F'losrix · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: Re: Common Topics Forum

Protostar wrote: I think there should be a Common Topics forum for topics that have been rehashed over and over and over again. These topics would include Social Security, Gay Marriage, Drug Prohibition, etc. I think this would be useful so that newbies to the forums don't create topics that have already been discussed over and over again.
I think it would be unwieldly for the admins & mods trying to keep track of stray posts.

I also don't think it will cut down on the repetition. A lot of it is just rehash after rehash, but now and then someone will come at a topic from a different direction or want to discuss a very specific aspect. I think we just have to accept that this is part of the game and plan accordingly.