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[–] Vindicator [M] ago  (edited ago)

For example there should really only be one Harvey Weinstein thread that everybody posts to. That thread/post would be active as long as information came in and it would all be together. As interest in it eventually died out it would stop rising to the top of the forum. If new info came in it would bump to the top of the forum because somebody posted something in it.

All the info would be together in just a couple of threads.

There is absolutely nothing stopping y'all from using the forum in this manner. But people want to accrue SCP for themselves (even though it does nothing for you...I think they think of it like reddit karma?) so everyone posts their own threads on the same topic instead of posting their material as a comment in a thread that is already live. I don't know why everyone does this, but they do.

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[–] Vindicator ago 

even if people keep posting in the same thread on voat the thread doesn't get seen unless you go hunt for it. If it bumps to the top it is immediately visible and everybody realizes that something new might be happening with a topic

Actually, this isn't true. Not if you are viewing via HOT. Anything people are commenting in rises to the top of HOT. And if you are viewing TOP, anything people are upvoating rises to the top. People just don't use it very effectively to keep posts alive. This is why it might be an interesting experiment to try a One-Thread-per-Topic Rule for a month or so.

If you find something new about a topic and you add it to a thread because you want others to look and participate you would have to ping a bunch of people to get them to look at it or nobody will know new information is found.

This is true...although we could add a "NEW Info" flair. If we culled all but one thread, people would have to read the new comments to find out new info.

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[–] Vindicator 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Interestingly, mods don't remove comments -- so all the anger about post removals would go away if people started posting their submissions as comments, as well.

Now that I think about it, this might be worth contemplating as a rule change. That is: allowing mods to remove posts on the same topic and asking folks to repost as a comment within whichever thread on the topic was put up first.

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[–] 2impendingdoom ago 

I did ask that to be made a rule and I was ignored.

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[–] pizza-party-pooper [S] ago 

Actually @Vindicator, I post these like this because I haven't see the search bar in 6 months. Otherwise, I'd tack onto someone else's post happily.

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[–] Vindicator ago 

Putt had to remove Search both to simplify the port (it's a server hog), and especially to protect the site from the ongoing DDoS attacks. It is apparently quite simple to write bots that constantly search for stuff and bog down the server. That said, try using the search.voat.co (linked in the sidebar). It works better in many ways than the in-house search tool ever did.