Information overload

Tom2 · April 16, 2008, 07:36 PM

Has there ever been a thought of putting up a limit to how many posts are on a thread, like some go hundreds, that I have seen. I am not gonna spend an afternoon reading all the posts in a super huge thread on one subject. That has to eat up storage space and beat a dead horse by the time you are up to 30-40 posts on one subject? Like set a limit and close it at that point, to perhaps improve the diversity of postings instead of all on one thing. Or am I out to lunch with this?

TheBluesMan · April 16, 2008, 08:31 PM

We used to do that once a post hit 100K or so. This was back in teh daze when most folks were on dial-up. I certainly think the quality of discussions was better back then, but that might just be the perspective talking...

We don't have a hard and fast rule about closing large threads. Most staff members tend to evaluate them each on a case-by-case basis. Certainly once threads get up to about 75-100 comments, most of what can be said on the topic has been said.

Any other staph members want to chime in on this?

April 16, 2008, 07:36 PM	#1
Tom2 Senior Member Join Date: June 23, 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 5,676	Information overload Has there ever been a thought of putting up a limit to how many posts are on a thread, like some go hundreds, that I have seen. I am not gonna spend an afternoon reading all the posts in a super huge thread on one subject. That has to eat up storage space and beat a dead horse by the time you are up to 30-40 posts on one subject? Like set a limit and close it at that point, to perhaps improve the diversity of postings instead of all on one thing. Or am I out to lunch with this? __________________ Your gun is like your nose, it is just wrong for someone else to pick it for you!

April 16, 2008, 08:31 PM	#2
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