Sincere Request

Basketball
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I wish we had the technology where each reader could merge his own threads

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I personally HATE thread merging and trying to have a separate recruiting section. It gets very confusing understanding what is being talked about where and in what sequence. I’ve been on Coogfans for over 20 years and until relatively recently it was never a thing. Want to see about football go to the football page and click on threads that spell out the general topic and have a decent idea what the thread is about. Some threads didn’t go anywhere due to bad OP content or already a duplicate idea was posted, or nobody felt the desire to respond to OP topic and it died on the free market message board vine. Other threads had robust specific discussions. The mods would only intervene to lock a thread if it was violating a policy - hateful speech, cussing, politics got injected, etc
). Worked for years and years I don’t understand why that can’t be the way it is done. FWIT, the Texans message board I get on here and there is very strict about topic consolidation too and it upsets plenty of people there as well. I don’t get it for the life of me. Oh well.

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How about if a topic doesn’t get at least 5 replies (or whatever an active thread is deemed to be considered) within 24 hours it gets deleted automatically or merged to a pinned catchall thread. If any given thread catches on it catches on. Let the message board free market do its thing.

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Better yet the person who started the topic loses the ability to start new topics.

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I wouldn’t be against a topic starting limit. Like 1 every 24 hours or something. In general I’ve only ever really seen massive topic explosions during or right after games when things go bad and we lose. Most of them get a couple responses maybe and then move on down the message board list and go away from visibility naturally. The free market message board speaks. Again I personally don’t see a problem with this approach but to each their own. But yeah maybe cap the number of thread starts for the few that might be excessive about it

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I think as CoogFans grows there has to be more moderation.

Not saying a dictatorship but there’s a middle ground somewhere

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I hate the merging. It makes the board look barren and empty. While it may sometimes be necessary, what’s happened here is overkill.

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Going to kill the board if people can’t understand what they are reading in a coherent way or it is hard to tell there is even much activity going on. Defaulting to mass merging is not the answer I can tell you that. How does it make any sense to have a rotation player from a national championship runner up transfer out and have to go into a 3000 post thread and look God knows where and look between God knows how many posts to find relevant points regarding the topic? Personally I hope this is a come to Jesus moment for the mods. It is already hard as heck to understand when we get commits in football and basketball compared to just seeing a BOOM thread in the board of the relevant sport. Used to come on and see a BOOM. Now I come on and see a BOMB - as in a complete mess. Just my opinion but like I said been on here and posting for over 20 years so seen it different ways and I have a strong preference.

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I’m not disagreeing with you.

I’m not sure if there has been a huge surge in members on the board . I guess you would know.

But if so, maybe the combination of that and new owners
.is leading to a recipe for much change quickly. Or the new mods are trying to figure it out.

I will say that after posting on TexAgs for years, CoogFans is simply amazing. It’s so toxic over there but that’s probably due to a number of reasons and absolutely no success in any sport besides a good baseball run lol

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Another thing about the thread merging is that it creates confusion in the big threads conversations are generally merged into, with random conversations appearing suddenly that don’t have much to do with the conversations currently happening. It just feels so unnecessary to micromanage the board that extent.

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I think a reasonable middle ground would be okay but personally preferred by me is to just let topics be created and go away naturally unless they violate cussing, politics, personal attacks, etc. like I said above this isn’t a new concept here about how to moderate a message board as the Texans message board is basically an identical approach to what exists currently on this board. I simply don’t like it but that is just me.

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let’s merge all forum threads into one single thread. :clown_face:

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Part of the issue is you have the same conversation going on in two different places (and same links, etc) if you have a transfer portal thread and then another covering the specific player transferring. It happened with TA.

There’s no perfect answer here. It was pretty clear that the amount threads started until recently had gone a little too far. Lots of look at me threads that were basically the same as others. It was time for the pendulum to swing a bit if nothing else.

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Just take away the ability to start a new thread. Mods can set the agenda by creating threads that provide proper avenues for the conversations that have or likely will come up. There’s a difference between democracy and anarchy.

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Here is a solution. Just bann everyone!!! You won’t have worry about merging anymore threads. oh :poop: that won’t work


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This is absolutely Monday Morning Quarterbacking on my part but I think the right answer in this case would have been to move the TA conversation from the broader transfer thread to their own thread. In general, individual news items that people are likely to come here to specifically discuss probably warrant their own thread, not only to give people a place to discuss the event but also to prevent overwhelming the existing thread.

Also, if megathreads for recruiting are going to be enforced, the top post should probably be updated to include previous news that’s been posted in the thread, so that the 8th repost of the same tweet in the same thread can just be deleted.

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LMFAO!!!

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Why not just address those issues directly by deleting the threads and letting the posters know the reason?

These merged mega threads are way more unreadable than a cluttered board.

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This is a stellar idea.

Arceneaux deserves a separate thread.

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