Community is being overrun by spam.

And how would we do that? Would you be okay with, say, sending me your thread ideas so that they can be posted via PassiveAggressiveSock and ObscurePopCultureReferencesSock, JustAnInsideJokeSock and ThreadsPostedJustToMakeSomeTerriblePunInTheTitleSock? Because those are the kind of threads that annoy me--and the kind of threads that I'm positive are making people stop posting here because I've been told so. Or are we just catering to the sector that doesn't like politics or silly threads about drinking stuff?

I mean... I know what people complain about. Maybe the kind of content that is actually ruining the JCC to the ground is not what you think it is. Would you consider that possibility?

 

Yikes, dude... I was just agreeing with a suggestion made earlier. There's no need to jump down my throat.

 

We need to start with more enjoyable people. The JC lacks this these days.

 

GTFO, Vin.

 

And I was telling you why it won't work. And even if we managed to agree on a way to split every single kind of possible thread into neat, closed categories that could be split into different socks that you could add to your block list, who would post with them? Would we have the mod team juggling ten, fifteen, twenty socks around?

Not reasonable.

 

Can threads be consolidated into one big thread? For instance, a thread titled, "The last ________ I ________," and posters could fill in their own blanks... much better than separate threads for the last thing you put in your mouth, drank, ate, etc. What about that?

 

We could talk about consolidating threads or other ways of avoiding clutter, of course. Who knows, maybe the solution would be something as easy as making page 1 longer.

 

As a Dani and not a Juliet, I've come to accept that the issue isn't the the existence of the threads, it's the lack of more interesting content. Which as other people rightfully pointed out last time we had this conversation is as much my fault as anyone else's. I could ~be the change~ or I can just open the JCC and close it again unless I have a notification in the corner. There are a few people who are doing what they can to post interesting, thoughtful, or funny contributions ( @Rogue1-and-a-half, a onetime target of my ire does put a lot of thought and care into his posts. @tom also wins poster of the year for a reason), but when it seems like the critical mass is more interested in superhero megathreads or what they drank today, there's only so much you can do to force a culture change.

One warning, though.

If Dave "**** DC" Schwarz wants to combine the superhero threads into one megathread, watch your backs.

 

times like this I wish we could like a post a number of times.

 

I was thinking MCU, DCEU and X-Men for the movies. Maybe Marvel TV and DC TV as well.

 

Go drink some Vanilla Coke and smoke some cherry cigaros, jackass!

 

I imagine it must have been for someone to create a thread in comms about it.

Okay well which is it? These are contradictory positions. People in this thread have already brought up that they engage less with the forum because of these things, and that they make the forums less fun. You're putting one group's enjoyment over another.

 

I don't know, I think it works sometimes as a good thinking exercise to coming up with an association for a word a user posts before yours (which is why sometimes I end up having to edit because somebody posted before I thought of an association.)

Especially nowadays.

 

I don’t know about resetting them yearly (although keeping threads short is always a good idea, as we discovered during the move) but if we consolidate the superhero movie threads I would lock the existing ones and create new threads. Better that than merging three or four massive leviathans.

 

You could create a thread for current movies and a thread for upcoming movies that would both reset at the release of a new movie.

 

I like Star Trek, but I've always been annoyed that there's more than one thread for that.

 

Whereas I like that there are separate Trek threads. I haven't had a chance to watch Discovery at all yet, so if all the Trekkies were talking Discovery in the general Trek thread, I'd be spoiled. As it is, I can talk Trek in general and not worry about spoilers.

 

Yeah, I was just going to say that spoilers in general are one of the biggest points against large, general threads for an entire franchise (especially when a franchise has a lot of movies or TV shows within it).

I'm not a fan of superhero movies or TV at all, but that's actually one of the biggest things that might work against an overall MCU thread, overall DC thread, etc. If there's too many different things in there, as well as spoilers, it could be a less-than-ideal experience for those who do want to discuss those topics.

 

As someone who posts a lot in these spammy threads like the Association one. I would say they are fine and to me it’s just fun. I do think it is a good idea to not allow anymore because for a lot of people they really don’t like those types of threads.