Thread post limit

[DMarkwick]

As there is a heavily enforced rule about not starting threads where there is a similar one, even if that similar one is 500 pages long, perhaps a post limit to threads might be appropriate? Say automatically close any thread once it reaches 200 posts or something? It might allow for a fresh feel to some topics which can run on for pages and pages, especially when people start some sort of bunfight over some imagined slight.

(There is also a rule about not reinvigorating old threads, which is kind of at odds with the previous rule.)

IMO topics on these boards need to be noob-friendly, and I think a good way to achieve this is to not have so many monolithic threads that people always get pointed to whenever a similar topic is started. I'm not saying endless numbers of open threads, just a post limit on one thread at a time. It might sound nonsensical to "split" long discussions over several threads, but really the total post count will be the same, just not in one huge thread that people won't read anyway.

[TRexian]

If a thread has more than 4 pages, I tend to ignore it.

Even if I've posted in it.

(BTW, D - when are you going to release ver. 2 of that smoke thing?)

[DMarkwick]

I also tend to ignore threads once you've posted in them.



I have to wonder though at the value of having any thread stickied that is more than 50 pages long. I mean, will anyone seriously make an attempt to go through all that? I would imagine that anyone who would has gone through such a long thread has done so by keeping up with it, certainly not by reading it all at one go. I maintain that threads that long are wasting time displaying the first X massive numbers of pages, might as well keep refreshing the topic with shorter threads yes? It's not like the other threads won't be available for searching if anyone so desired.

[TRexian]

This thread is such a good idea, that it should be stickied.

[DMarkwick]

This thread is such a good idea, that it should be stickied.

At the rate this thread is expanding, I certainly won't have a problem with that