Aladdin said:
I mean for eg, if we have a India-Australia match going on OR India-China war going on, then we can have only ONE result
Heh, let me be the one that would actually commend the mod on that thread. A little edit here & there took the sting out of some posts and saved the thread from being closed. I have not seen this before. Usually all it takes is one or two well trolled posts and you get a lockdown shortly after. I always hate it when that happens because ppl that posted in there for a while get short changed due to the actions of the ignorant few. What the mod did in that thread was something i've always wanted in a hot topic thread where emotions could fly easily.
Hard to call, and experience is the only teacher here.
vij said:
But in a very long generalized thread, if someone posts general stuff a post or two down the line the focus is lost. I have a better chance of sustaining the sub-topic concerned with a new thread.
because....
Aladdin said:
You see, almost every topic has a sub topic within itself, which always leads to different result, Now thats messing up
and will happen with topics that are simlar but not always related.
vij said:
PS: If I were a mod, I would def take extra care while closing threads. Closing a thread is fine. Closing a harmless thread in GT is still fine, but closing a harmless thread in GT with a smug comment or expression causes provocation. There-in a issue is created where none existed. When you close a thread, you are symbolically shutting the door on a member, atleast do it gracefully. Is it too much to ask for?
Please dont get me wrong and please please do note that I am not generalizing.
Also agreed.
There is one feature i think missing on TE which is at the bottom of any thread to have a further list of related threads. Now in an ideal world, that list of related threads would be an accurate history of every thread that was started in the past on the same subject or close enough.
So for example someone starts a thread on something specific, then the more general thread appears in the related threads list. It offers a jump point to a generic parent level but still related.
Small bits here & there are easier to grasp than a novel length thread which ppl tend to switch off past a few pages becuase they feel the direction is not in the way they want only to realise someone could very well have answered the question just a few pages on had they persevered.
I've been on forums where both approaches have been used, i would say the ones which use the one thread work well only for a few subjects maybe, as alladin put it, where there is only one outcome or direction. news on a certain subject for instance. But asking for suggestions for a specific requirement, i don't think falls into this category.
Another example is the 'suggest-me-something' type questions. Would be great if there was a list below where that specific something was asked in the past.
You can't index this with scripts, it takes humans to do it but the result i think would be an even easier to use forum. To which the classic response is -- just use search!
But search sometimes is useless because often thread titles contain typos, this is something I feel the mods SHOULD explicitly edit.
don't complain for every thing.
And I agree with the un-sticking with the body building thread too, if the activity is lowered in the next few days, it will be un-stickied.
