Thread Creation Limit?

[Babalu]

Is there or has there been talk of limiting the number of threads a member can create in a day? On the Chit Chat and Political boards especially, the same few posters create repetitive threads clogging up the board. One of the big offenders seems to have disappeared for a couple of months but there are others still active. Maybe limiting thread creations in each section each day?

[icecream]

Members shouldn't be limited in how many threads they can create, that would just reduce the activity on this site. You can always put someone on your ignore list if their threads are getting too much for you.

[opus]

Originally Posted by icecream

Members shouldn't be limited in how many threads they can create, that would just reduce the activity on this site. You can always put someone on your ignore list if their threads are getting too much for you.

There’s degrees of spamming though. There’s a difference between the idiot who spams the board with Valerie Bertinelli threads (I hate that guy! ) and someone who spends all day every day spamming with false, misleading, and potentially dangerous medical “information”.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by opus

There’s degrees of spamming though. There’s a difference between the idiot who spams the board with Valerie Bertinelli threads (I hate that guy! ) and someone who spends all day every day spamming with false, misleading, and potentially dangerous medical “information”.

I also worry about the medical "information" posts. It's a veritable flood. Every day there are new and even crazier theories, and each theory contradicts the one before it. It was bad enough when the posts were anti-mask; now they're anti-mask, pro-apocalypse, anti-vax, government-is-killing-us, lizard-people-control-the-government, magnetic-patients, black-eyed-babies, so-and-so-is-Jesus-reborn, crop-circles-are-real, Archons-are-controlling-the-media, and God knows what else.

In 1998, I met a nice lady from Kansas. Well, she seemed nice, but partway into our conversation, she told me that the government was monitoring everything that she said. Then the conversation got even weirder. She said they had put a chip in her brain as part of some kind of experiment. Very soon thereafter, I saw the local police take her away. It seems she had made threats at a local store, likely related to the paranoia she was experiencing.

It isn't healthy that this has gone on, now, for nearly a year. It's not healthy for the Sitcoms Online community, and it isn't healthy for the person spending all day, every day, posting this stuff here and cross-posting it to dozens of other forums. Yes, I know we have the option to put someone on Ignore, but that doesn't prevent the forums from being abused and spammed by someone who isn't mentally well if they believe the government is trying to kill us/make us magnetic/give us black-eyed children/whatever else.

It's better to have no Politics forum at all than a Politics forum that gets astroturfed like this.

[PhoenixAcres]

As long as threads generate responses there's no incentive to put a restriction like that in place. I think I know who you're talking about on the Chit Chat board and while it is a lot for one person, practically all of their threads have stimulated discussion. It was pretty dead before so I see this as a positive.

As for the Politics forum, there's always been a mostly laissez-faire philosophy surrounding the content. Notorious conspiracy theorist Kat Hak Sung posted here (among many other places) for over 5 years and I guarantee nothing being said right now comes close to the level of what he was posting. My point being that the scope of discussion on that forum has always been kept extremely large, since it's a sort of catch-all forum for stuff not allowed anywhere else. If TJ wants to adjust the rules in light of the new wave of threads I'll stand behind his decision though.

I doubt anyone gets their geopolitical news exclusively from Sitcoms Online and takes every claim to heart. At worst every post should be a catalyst for further research.

[opus]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAcres

As long as threads generate responses there's no incentive to put a restriction like that in place. I think I know who you're talking about on the Chit Chat board and while it is a lot for one person, practically all of their threads have stimulated discussion. It was pretty dead before so I see this as a positive.

All the recent food ones? A bit repetitive, but people love talking about food, and those threads aren’t putting anyone susceptible to misinformation at risk. Don’t think the complaints are about those.

[icecream]

I see the ganging up on Caroline and trying to drive her away from the boards is still going on. Just ignore her posts if you hate her that much, calling her mentally unwell is something that also should be kept to yourself. Members here have the right to express their opinions regardless of how much you disagree with them. Besides, I doubt that is who Babalu was talking about as he mentioned the politics board which she has been banned from, and chit chat. I just checked the most recent page of chit chat, only 2 of those threads were started by Caroline. Lay off and leave her alone! The continued attacks on her are pathetic.

[opus]

Originally Posted by icecream

I see the ganging up on Caroline and trying to drive her away from the boards is still going on. Just ignore her posts if you hate her that much, calling her mentally unwell is something that also be kept to yourself. Besides, I doubt that is who Babalu was talking about as he mentioned the politics board which she has been banned from, and chit chat. I just checked the most recent page of chit chat, only 2 of those threads were started by Caroline. Lay off and leave her alone! The continued attacks on her are pathetic.

Oh lord. Shoot me. Shoot me now.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by icecream

I doubt that is who Babalu was talking about as he mentioned the politics board which she has been banned from

Have you seen the Politics forum lately? She was unbanned with the promise from her that she wouldn't post links. That promise lasted all of 24 hours... actually, I don't think it even took that long.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Have you seen the Politics forum lately? She was unbanned with the promise from her that she wouldn't post links. That promise lasted all of 24 hours... actually, I don't think it even took that long.

This is the first I heard she had been unbanned. I requested my access to the politics board blocked a few months ago, so wouldn't have seen anything in that forum lately.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by opus

All the recent food ones? A bit repetitive, but people love talking about food, and those threads aren’t putting anyone susceptible to misinformation at risk. Don’t think the complaints are about those.

The food discussions are among my favorite. Can't go wrong with food this time of year.

[opus]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

The food discussions are among my favorite. Can't go wrong with food this time of year.

There should be a food network (don’t know what we’d call it though ). Then Valerie Bertinelli could have a show on it.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by icecream

This is the first I heard she had been unbanned. I requested my access to the politics board blocked a few months ago, so wouldn't have seen anything in that forum lately.

Okay, then I completely understand where you're coming from. There are currently more than 25 vaccine threads on the first page of Politics, 21 of them created by Caroline... and another 25 on the second page also authored by her, and another 25 on the third page, also started by her, etc. It's mass spamming, and I don't feel it's healthy. I don't hate Caroline. I fear what she is doing will harm someone through misinformation. I'd feel the same about someone claiming there have been NO side effects to the vaccine: that would also be dangerous misinformation.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAcres

As long as threads generate responses there's no incentive to put a restriction like that in place. I think I know who you're talking about on the Chit Chat board and while it is a lot for one person, practically all of their threads have stimulated discussion. It was pretty dead before so I see this as a positive.

As for the Politics forum, there's always been a mostly laissez-faire philosophy surrounding the content. Notorious conspiracy theorist Kat Hak Sung posted here (among many other places) for over 5 years and I guarantee nothing being said right now comes close to the level of what he was posting. My point being that the scope of discussion on that forum has always been kept extremely large, since it's a sort of catch-all forum for stuff not allowed anywhere else. If TJ wants to adjust the rules in light of the new wave of threads I'll stand behind his decision though.

I doubt anyone gets their geopolitical news exclusively from Sitcoms Online and takes every claim to heart. At worst every post should be a catalyst for further research.

All good advice, and I think you are giving the same advice TJ himself would give, so thank you.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Okay, then I completely understand where you're coming from. There are currently more than 25 vaccine threads on the first page of Politics, 21 of them created by Caroline... and another 25 on the second page also authored by her, and another 25 on the third page, also started by her, etc. It's mass spamming, and I don't feel it's healthy. I don't hate Caroline. I fear what she is doing will harm someone through misinformation. I'd feel the same about someone claiming there have been NO side effects to the vaccine: that would also be dangerous misinformation.

I see. That is going overboard then.