It's not that simple mate, sometimes it is needed, but this is only usually when a story is broken and everyone rushes to do the thread, and you can end up with numerous new threads all on the same story. But that's about it, if a thread has been running for a while, it usually takes a detour somewhere down the line, so to merge a new thread in with it is incorrect, and all it does to put posters of from starting new threads. Like has been said in this thread, if it's not broken don't try and fix it, and in he course of this thread, 3 ex mods have said the same, maybe this advise should be heeded. Sure they will work it out.
I think we should allow the mods to get together & have a chat about it in the first instance. If it still carries on then we could have a public vote. Not saying I'm right or attempting to speak for everyone, just my opinion like. I don't like the way things have been going over the last week or so on here. We seem to be taking the nag route. I'm just wondering when the deletions & bans will start kicking in.
We are very reluctant to ban people, Billy. Sometimes delete comments, but not often threads unless they're disappearing down the toilet. We mods can have a chat over the next few days. Chaps....?
Cool, as i said my thought process was trying to keep information gathered about a paticular player in one place. Ie the zucmanovic (sp) thread, he was researched, you tube clips etc then a month and a half later the link comes back, made sense to merge to me. 5 different threads on bardo and his instagram There were about 20 threads in the peruzzi one by the time it died De ceglie has about 15-20 in it Cissokho was the same Huddlestone may have the record
I know that Sid, I've been banned myself before & will be the first to hold my hands up & admit it was fully deserved. This board has ticked along very nicely for 2 years now without nag style communistic approach by the mods who have always been very lenient. I certainly don't want to go down the BBC or nag route but changing thread titles & merging threads on the same subject but with different conversations going on is just plain wrong. And while I don't want to throw accusations about, it's only recently started happening when a new mod was installed. Like a bairn playing with new toys & showing us all what he can do. Peace & love to all.
Like a thread that was posted 2 years ago was bumped for absolutely no reason at all & completely pointless you mean?
The title randomly changes mate and defaults to the first person that started a thread. Ie you start a thread at 16:00 called i love sunderland and i start one at 16:02 called i love safc. It would stay as your started thread but could become i love safc. The title can be controlled though so my appologies, need to be more carefull in future
The point was that the board was brand new and a poster came out with open arms it had 100 views and no responses. Times have changed. And they never posted again
Just seems there's a lot of people blaming a new mod for this and that. I thought that's what you were getting at. Misunderstanding!
But that's not quite true, The thread you bumped was the lads first thread, he went on to make 53 posts, then faded away, just like many, many have done over the years. In them days we had some topper posters, Stan Cummins moustache, Danny 56, to name but 2, and they faded out.
As a newish (well newly active) poster who is very active on other (non-footy) boards I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of dissaproval. If you want to kill this board in quick sharp fashion then carry on with this hyper thread merging, I guarantee it will result in an exodus of long term posters and the putting off of new members from posting. There is a time for merging threads - when a story breaks and half a dozen people post new threads on the same topic within 5 minutes - O'Neil sacked or Pirlo signs for example. But coming in from the match last night and reading the match thread it was clear a number of threads with subtly different thrusts had been merged into a mega match thread. This made the thread very confusing to wade through and has two other effects - it acts as censorship hiding away angry or perhaps controversial views, and it also means daft things said in the heat of the moment get hidden away and lost in an unweildy and nonesensical mega thread. I'd also add that as well as the moved icon, the very least a mod should do is pm the thread starter explaining why their thread has been moved and telling them where it has gone. Not to do so smacks of a high handed, dictatorial approach and reflects badly on what has, to now, been a very good forum
Forgot about Danny, he was cracking. Always meant to ask what film the Paul Newman picture he used was from but never remembered.
Nee botha marra. I've not directly blamed PDC Effect but you have to admit, it's only just started happening.
