i've been thinking about this for a while, and when hyena suggested it to me today i decided it had to be done.
the very long threads on this board take up lots of space and are becoming slower and slower to load. moreover, n00bs have been known to complain about how intimidated they feel by 500 pages of old timers expressing how they feel or what's on their stereo.
starting from next week, i'm going to close a number of overlong threads. the first ones to go will be:
- now playing
- now feeling
- questions & answers
later i'll do the same for the picture and the person above me threads. in time, i plan to close all threads once they reach around 3000 posts (let's say 2000 for pic-heavy threads). if everything works out fine and the majority is satisfied, this procedure will be added to the forum rules -- to be applied with a grain of salt: i won't stop a conversation mid-page just because we've reached the fatal number.
i know some of you might be sentimentally attached to the threads i've mentioned, but i think it's in everyone's best interest not to add to this site's sometimes slow loading times and not to instantly chase away the occasional readers. i'll keep links to the old popular threads in the rules so people can easily find and search the closed threads as well.
one last thing: as i don't want to be the one starting all the threads to replace the old ones (you did understand i meant there's going to be replacements, right? it's not as if we want to stop the music/feelings/questions...), i'm going to leave you the whole of next week to start the new now playing, now feeling, and q&a. please be kind: just one each, and from the title it has to be immediately understandable what the content is going to be like. you can make it funny if you want (can?), but not obscure.
the very long threads on this board take up lots of space and are becoming slower and slower to load. moreover, n00bs have been known to complain about how intimidated they feel by 500 pages of old timers expressing how they feel or what's on their stereo.
starting from next week, i'm going to close a number of overlong threads. the first ones to go will be:
- now playing
- now feeling
- questions & answers
later i'll do the same for the picture and the person above me threads. in time, i plan to close all threads once they reach around 3000 posts (let's say 2000 for pic-heavy threads). if everything works out fine and the majority is satisfied, this procedure will be added to the forum rules -- to be applied with a grain of salt: i won't stop a conversation mid-page just because we've reached the fatal number.
i know some of you might be sentimentally attached to the threads i've mentioned, but i think it's in everyone's best interest not to add to this site's sometimes slow loading times and not to instantly chase away the occasional readers. i'll keep links to the old popular threads in the rules so people can easily find and search the closed threads as well.
one last thing: as i don't want to be the one starting all the threads to replace the old ones (you did understand i meant there's going to be replacements, right? it's not as if we want to stop the music/feelings/questions...), i'm going to leave you the whole of next week to start the new now playing, now feeling, and q&a. please be kind: just one each, and from the title it has to be immediately understandable what the content is going to be like. you can make it funny if you want (can?), but not obscure.
Or not. I dunno. Should be good either way (no place for whiners to whine/a few good threads kinda losing weight).
In that case, Rahvin will have to introduce far too many overdone special effects to the forum as well.
