Opinion Down with the MEGA thread!!!

[FlowersByIrene]

As ODN said every single proposed:
"Warnock for #x??" thread have to be removed or we will have hundreds
But i am not against having different threads on more FOCUSSED aspects of trade week, and not just lumping it all into one thread

It does get rather dull coming on and having the same three notifications from

Rumour File, Trade Month and Draft thread, with let's face it, pretty much the same stuff going on in each...

 

[Monkey King]

Bulls-eye.

Many key issues can get lost very quickly in a Mega-thread and dismissed without proper or in-depth discussion.
Actually, I find it rather odd just how few threads there are fired up these days.
That's it................a best 22 is on my agenda tomorrow.

Seriously though, I agree with Monkey King.

Thank you Harks for the first post in this thread that actually addressed the point in question. The first page is a terrific example of how some threads just become off-topic shits and giggles, sometimes for pages. Discussion becomes dulled and the finer points have difficulty finding focus. This is what makes new threads so great, they refine focus and refresh stagnant discussion.

I'm also surprised (disappointed) at how few new threads there are these days. I used to connect to BF through the Carlton portal, where every new thread would head the list, but it would be like watching grass grow these days. Somewhere it changed and it's not a better posting experience IMO.

 

[Monkey King]

Simple really. Just make your topic stand alone.

Sounds simple yes, but simple is what simple does. The "best available" thread for example was IMO enough of a stand alone topic, yet it got shut down with the comment - "Totally unnecessary to start a new thread ... Draft thread was specifically set up to discuss who we should be looking at in the upcoming draft".

Yes, of course it will overlap with a EVERYTHING DRAFT RELATED GOES HERE thread; how in hell can it not with such a broad distinction? And yes it will probably attract some overlap discussion, but it will also attract discussion that won't be found in the other thread, or certainly not as condensed anyway. So where does it stop? Everything Carlton goes here? Everything preseason goes here? It's starting to feel a little like bureaucracy gone mad to me.

Threads about who each poster thinks we should get in a trade or draft don't do much to stand out and we run the risk of having a page of individual theories on the same topic.

I don't disagree, but that's not always what's happening. Surely there can be be a better balance than what we have atm? As I've said, this is just my opinion and others may prefer it that way, although I've yet to see anyone wholly defend of the trend. The board used to work reasonably well before the MEGA thread era I thought and while it might make it easier to moderate, for me it does detract from the user experience - I'd like to motion towards b4f's post at this juncture, as he made some good points that indicate others experience this too.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I don't disagree, but that's not always what's happening.

MK, you just needed to look at the bit where I said we would take a look at it.

However, that's what was happening before we gave way to popular suggestion and started merging things a few years ago. Everyone that had an opinion on the draft, started their own thread. I didn't really care but the mocking from posters about yet another thread being started on the same topic were predictable as night follows day.

Here we have a full circle situation. You can't please all the people all of the time, and if the board truly swings back to wanting something they had before but didn't want, then of course we will sit up and listen.

However, if we allow one stand alone thread that just covers the ground being covered in another, then we will have to allow 2, 5, 10, whatever, because there will be no distinction to favour some over others. Then we hear calls of 'mods, lift your game'. Lift your game, leave it alone ... never the two shall meet.

As I said, we can discuss what makes something distinct rather than blanket merge everything. If we can make a judgment that there is are separate discussion points that might arise out of a thread, then I agree, we can leave them alone.

 

[Will.B.Worth.Da.Waite]

Have frequented this site much less this year and mega threads have contributed to that (as has a very heavy uni workload but that's besides the point). When you do have little time to browse, it's good to jump on, have a quick browse over thread titles to find the relevant news and rumours, maybe a quick post here or there.

Now I come on and I'm confronted with multi-thousand long post threads with no obvious entry point, having to trawl through pages of irrelevance to get the info I'm after. Injury mega thread is particularly annoying - surely information so pertinent deserves a thread of its own?

Agree with this

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Remember that stand alone articles can be posted in a new thread as they are specific discussion points. So if the media link us to a player or a player is injures, feel free to post the link and discuss. No reason these can't be discussed both in a general sense in its appropriate thread, or as a stand alone because it is being discussed elsewhere. When it dies, it can always be merged back into the mega thread.

Mega threads serve as an easy way to find information from a long time ago, much like the dedicated player threads.

 

[krayfesh]

I'm in agreeance with the anti-mega brigade.

Mega is stupid. Can we call it a Super Thread? Or Ultra Thread? Or Threadus Maximus?

 

[Silvagnis]

I'm in agreeance with the anti-mega brigade.

Mega is stupid. Can we call it a Super Thread? Or Ultra Thread? Or Threadus Maximus?

Then it will sound like we're discussing tampons and maxi pads.

The blond in that latest Stayfree has a great arse.

 

[The Coach]

Thank you Harks for the first post in this thread that actually addressed the point in question. The first page is a terrific example of how some threads just become off-topic shits and giggles, sometimes for pages. Discussion becomes dulled and the finer points have difficulty finding focus. This is what makes new threads so great, they refine focus and refresh stagnant discussion.

I'm also surprised (disappointed) at how few new threads there are these days. I used to connect to BF through the Carlton portal, where every new thread would head the list, but it would be like watching grass grow these days. Somewhere it changed and it's not a better posting experience IMO.

I liked your point MK but was guilty of losing my balls - somehow I feel I have been labelled as a naughty boy as far as the Mods go and thought I had better not even give your OP a like - sorry.
You know why there are so few new threads - because there has been a tendency to merge them into one of the megas.
I understand ODN's post and maybe there were periods of some people making too many duplicate threads. I think I have only ever ridiculed one OP ever and instead defended/encouraged the thread makers as I have said, on more than one occassion, that the board dies w/o new threads. (B4F sums up perfectly how us skimmers liked to browse the thread titles)
Overall I am thinking it is pretty much a house-keeping preference thingy

 

[Monkey King]

MK, you just needed to look at the bit where I said we would take a look at it.

LOL. A bit of attentional blindness on my part perhaps; when I saw the words nappies and midnight feeds I kinda went numb

Here we have a full circle situation. You can't please all the people all of the time, and if the board truly swings back to wanting something they had before but didn't want, then of course we will sit up and listen.

I understand you can't please everyone. And certainly there's always more than just two approaches to a problem. While I'm generally reluctant to criticise the job you guys do, as it is highly appreciated, that thread and the comment for why it was locked was a bit of a straw-camels-back for me, because I've gone off the MEGA draft thread and was almost excited to see something new pop up; so when I saw that I was miffed enough to start a thread, something I rarely do, to see if anyone felt the same, or if I was just being picky.

I look forward to the future discussion on what constitutes a distinct topic.

... When it dies, it can always be merged back into the mega thread.

Mega threads serve as an easy way to find information from a long time ago, much like the dedicated player threads.

I think this sounds good. An EVERYTHING DRAFT thread is a bit too broad, but merging dying threads into an archive thread could work well; although not being able to search individual threads themselves these days, I'm not sure it would necessarily make it any easier to locate info.

 

[Monkey King]

I liked your point MK but was guilty of losing my balls - somehow I feel I have been labelled as a naughty boy as far as the Mods go and thought I had better not even give your OP a like - sorry.

No worries. I'll quote Bruce Lee here, who said "I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine". Don't fear walking your own path, so long as you make an effort to be reasoned and understanding of others viewpoints while assessing them against your own.

Overall I am thinking it is pretty much a house-keeping preference thingy

I too thought b4f summed it well with his comments regarding the difficulty in finding an appropriate entry point.

I also get the impression it's become a house-keeping preference and damned if I want to make anyone's job harder than it needs be, but I just hope we can strike a better balance than what we currently have.

 

[Chism]

It is a fine line as to whether threads need to be merged into a mega thread and every poster wants their own individual say with stand alone threads. It all depends on the content IMO and what is being discussed and how popular/intelligent the discussion contained is. Bear in mind though pleasing everyone is out of the question and you need the happy medium as the flip side see's posters complaining about 5 new threads started every hour when they are all discussing the draft and 20 comments saying...... " Draft thread " " Trade thread " " This thread " " That thread "etc etc etc

Mega threads are everywhere on BF now and all boards have them especially team boards who are all discussing trade week and the draft etc. The notion has been taken on board though Monkey King.

 

[Monkey King]

The notion has been taken on board though Monkey King.

Thanks mate. Mostly just wanted to express how my personal posting experience has been affected and see if anyone felt similarly. Understand you guys have a tough gig and finding the right balance mustn't be easy

 

[The Toad]

I'm in agreeance with the anti-mega brigade.

Mega is stupid. Can we call it a Super Thread? Or Ultra Thread? Or Threadus Maximus?

 

[Big Sim]

I'm in agreeance with the anti-mega brigade.

Mega is stupid. Can we call it a Super Thread? Or Ultra Thread? Or Threadus Maximus?

What's bigger than Mega? Mega-mega? Because the Tippett thread on the Crows board is Mega to the power of about 3000.

8,500 posts and quarter of a million views and counting in two weeks...

All you anti-mega chaps should wander over and vent your spleens.

 

[Jabba73]

What's bigger than Mega? Mega-mega? Because the Tippett thread on the Crows board is Mega to the power of about 3000.

8,500 posts and quarter of a million views and counting in two weeks...

All you anti-mega chaps should wander over and vent your spleens.

This is only the case because there is nothing else happening in Adelaide worth discussing.

 

[T2B_]

Thankfully, when footy is actually being played, it seems we do have a number of new threads started every week, whether it be about elements of the game we played, or toasts to a player or two... etc.

I think the biggest reason we are seeing the prevalence of the mega threads at the moment is this damn off-season and yes, the extended trade thingo as well.

I agree with you though MK. Thankfully, I hope, it shouldn't be as noticeable once footy eventually comes back.

 

[Poseidon]

Agree with Monkey King and Harker. Too many posts get lost in the sea of posts in mega threads and the discussion moves far too quickly.

I personally don't have a problem with seeing a whole bunch of 'should we draft X?' 'who to trade for Y?' threads as I can immediately see by the title if it's a topic I want to contribute to or read and if not then I can easily ignore it and move on to the next one. In a mega thread I'm forced to wade through a bunch of nonsense to read things I care about.

 

[King of Ruin]

What's bigger than Mega? Mega-mega?

TURBO-MEGA THREAD

 

[The_Wookie]

kind of agree with the OP but only because so much crap gets posted in these threads its unbelievable. see: rumours thread.

 

[Jabba73]

kind of agree with the OP but only because so much crap gets posted in these threads its unbelievable. see: rumours thread.

Agreed Wookie, some of that stuff belongs in the "I just made some shit up" thread as it is probably not a rumour, more like a Spudchamber-esque thought bubble.

 

[King of Ruin]

Agreed Wookie, some of that stuff belongs in the "I just made some shit up" thread as it is probably not a rumour, more like a Spudchamber-esque thought bubble.

I can smell a new thread on the way

 

[Blue Flame]

I can smell a new thread on the way

Starchamber-esque thought bubble mega thread.

 

[King of Ruin]

Starchamber-esque thought bubble mega thread.

TURBO-MEGA THREAD
Hands down, destroy all threads.
Can't be beat.
EVER!

 

[Blue Flame]

TURBO-MEGA THREAD
Hands down, destroy all threads.
Can't be beat.
EVER!

This may actually be correct.