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Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Tuesday, 28th February 2012
Hi all
I've just been checking up and have been told that we no longer need to close threads that go over 2000 posts.
I'll make this thread sticky for a while so people have time to see it : )
Tayler
Good news for the Limerick thread!
( See how I'm being positive here?)
Thanks, Tayler.
Is there an upper limit now, please? (Thinking of threads in TVH which keep going)
, in reply to message 3.
Posted by Michael Alexander Kearsley (U1675895) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Forward to Infinity!
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Posted by virtual_jan (U13662056) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Sorry if this conflicts with other posters' desires but I would /definitely/ have preferred threads to still be closed at 2000 posts.
When I go onto other boards and see threads that have gone into many thousand of posts, I feel completely over-faced and not at all inclined to post on them. I cannot imagine wading through all those posts, and often I do not feel comfortable just tagging on, not having read what has gone before, in case I have missed something pertinent.
Some of the political threads in The Bull seem to go on for ever and I do often tend to switch off after the first few pages, but when you think about threads such as the mental health thread which I often read but don't post on I would hate to think that someone in need of the support provided there were put off by the size of the thread.
Would it not be better to keep to the 2000 rule - particularly for Village Hall threads- to make them accessible and welcoming to all?
Does anyone else feel the same?
v_j
I don't agree, Jan. Anyone can re-start a thread and refer back to the old thread. It isn't complicated. I really don't see a problem with allowing threads to go beyond 2000 posts. I have never seen a thread go /much/ beyond that, to be fair. As to your point about being accessible and welcoming to others, well I can't see how a thread of 2000 is any more welcoming than a thread of (say) 2500.
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Posted by carrick-bend (U2288869) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Jan, we're considering still having threads of about 2000 posts in the Equestrian Thread in TVH still, and linking back - as Bette says, we can still do what we like; it just gives us more options.
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Posted by virtual_jan (U13662056) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Well at present threads don't go much beyond 2000 here because the host has closed them, so it remains to be seen what the impact will be of having no upper limit.
Fair enough then if TVH threads do get restarted and linked back that will be pretty much as it is now. Hopefully it will only be the occasional thread in The Bull that will run and run and run and then some! I wonder what the cellar thread people will do? I was particularly thinking of POV ( is it The Green Room on there that is enormously long?) as an example of a board having very long threads that, to my mind, would benefit from a restart from time to time.
v_j
, in reply to message 8.
Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Hi v_j
I'll certainly keep an eye on the situation. Let's see how it goes for the time being : )
Tayler
, in reply to message 9.
Posted by virtual_jan (U13662056) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
Thanks Taylor. I don't want to come over as a sourpuss; I just wouldn't like people to feel discouraged from posting.
v_j
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