Eyepopper
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Pre-megathread caf was much better... excellent news.
Thats not how I see it, you could however start a thread with the title 'Fellaini starting to show his worth' and use the game against Liverpool as evidence to that.
Cracking contribution, Col.
@Jaybezia - that would require a lot of moderation and I don't think Niall wants to be adding any more subforums, we already have quite a few.
So long as people are sensible this won't really be a seismic shift, just going back to how things used to be.
@Niall
Would you be against the idea of a thread named something similar to "Robin Van Persie", then the OP is the creator, it's locked after, in a forum of it's own (Call it Index for example), but then the OP would link to all recent threads concerning the player, so as it would serve for easier navigation etc
Only a thought..
Oh hell yea...
But seriously, I'm guessing this is more applicable to the football forums? I'm assuming General/CE/Entertainment/etc.. will continue to have it's megathreads?
*I know you were joking...
Just as a matter of interest, at what point does a thread become a Megathread?
It's fairly standard for threads to go off at a tangent, sometimes eventually becoming a thread on some entirely different subject from the OP.
Good idea. As long as its modded, and people use their common sense, I think its better that way. At the moment you get four or five overlapping conversations about different things, just because it relates to the same player. Good lines of thought can get drowned out by two posters having a barney about something.
This is an awful idea, the place is overrun with needless threads after poor results, all this is gonna do is flood the place with more junk
I've noticed that the needless and knee jerk threads don't tend to last long, they quickly sink to the bottom of the pile and are never heard of again.This is an awful idea, the place is overrun with needless threads after poor results, all this is gonna do is flood the place with more junk
Rubbish... if a thread is truly needless, it disappears quickly. Needless to you doesn't equate to needless to others.This is an awful idea, the place is overrun with needless threads after poor results, all this is gonna do is flood the place with more junk
personally i found it more frustratingPre-megathread caf was much better... excellent news.
Its gets culled like a badger.I like the idea in general, but surely there has to be tolerance of a few megathreads? What happens when a thread gets too long? Is it curtailed?
I dont know if Im remembering it wrong but this is how I remember things being when I first joined, you didnt get so many megathreads and to be honest I think it worked better.
I don't like this plan. It'll just make it disorganised and we'll be flooded with loads of new threads.
But ok, we'll see how it goes.
Yeah, that's the way it worked when I joined. You could log on of a morning and immediately work out the latest news from the various new threads, then discuss that news in a dedicated thread - without trying to wade through some tedious argument that's been going on for months. The place seemed much more lively too. Megathreads kill discussion. If you fire up the home page and see the same selection of threads that's been there all week, there's no incentive to have a read through them and contribute.
It's a good idea in terms of getting more football posters rather than seeing the same people consistently. I think some people shy away from posting sometimes as in bigger threads your views can sometimes be lost and you won't be able to interact much which is what a forum is all about. Smaller threads will help interaction more.
I assume by football forum it means;
United forum/Football forum/Transfer forum
..?
I'm not sure if this is a good idea, would it not only make (for example) the issue of too many Moyes threads even worse?
Of course, we don't want lots of redundant and/or stupid threads popping up everywhere so please use common sense and do a quick check for existing threads before creating a new one. Or if you see redundant threads, please let a moderator know and we'll merge them.
We are going to be closing the majority of megathreads but a few will still exist (see my next post). For example, all bitching about David Moyes is probably best kept in the Moyes So Far! thread.
Correct. The Transfer Forum will probably still have a decent number of megathreads as discussions about a specific transfer target can run for months and is best kept in one place.