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So we all know the forum is sluggish and has challenges from time to time, and we all know that it is what it is and it's a bummer. That said, anything we can all do as users to help reduce the traffic jams is helpful. With this in mind, I'm asking everybody who creates popular, lengthy threads that are updated daily to start creating new threads on those topics and cease posting to the old ones. One of the problems we're having is that when users continuously access very long threads loaded with posts, pics, links, etc., the whole site can slow down to a crawl.
There isn't a magic number of posts that causes the jams, so I would just ask you to exercise awareness. Threads that come to mind that could be created anew are the popular ones like Now Playing, The Football thread, the Baseball thread, the one about "read any good books lately?", "seen any movies lately?", etc. You can title them the same, just give 'em a number like "Now Playing Part 3" or "The Football Thread continued". Whatever works.
Thank you for your attention.
DSS
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The main point to remember is to start new threads for very popular topics with probably 20 or more pages of comments. We know that there are some here (I won't name any, dtm) who are forever starting new threads ten minutes after one has been initiated. I just don't think that members should feel that this gives them license to re-start ANY post.
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Jan 16, 2014 - 3:30 AM
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Thor
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Eat it, Thor!
Haha!
I'm confused. Why is Thor upset? Is this his doing?
Thor thinks there should only ever be one (interminable) thread on any one topic. He doesn't sleep well at night when anyone creates a new thread on a once-discussed topic, regardless of how long ago a previous thread on the subject may have started. He's quick to post a link to that ancient thread, even if the new poster was not yet born when the topic was last discussed.
Obviously this is not healthy for the board, but like the dedicated smoker (or drinker) who loves his vice, news of its ill effects does not go down easily.
(But we love him, warts and all...)
Ha, ha...you summed it up well, Dana. Whenever a duplicate topic pops up, I stay up at night -- howling at the moon with fists raised high!
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Will this help limit sheetmusicman's threads? The site is moving faster already!
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