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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
the problem with the board of late has been too many "general blah blah discussion" threads. You can't discuss anything in there, cause another discussion within the same thread bumps the related posts to previous pages. How can that be better than bumping an old, tired thread off the first page of a forum? It makes more sense to keep separate discussions in their own threads (isn't that what a thread is?) and let them die natural deaths when nobody posts in them than to put them all into a single thread in which it becomes impossible to track all the posts on any given subject.
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That is a huge problem. It is very difficult to have a good conversation or debate about anything when everything is posted in so few threads. The whole "off season thread" for a Mavs forum is absolutely idiotic. That completely stagnates discussion. Many people don't even open the thread because it's one big cluster f*** of different discussions.
It's fine to keep non Mavs content out of the Mavs section. It's fine to keep the threads that say "i'm new here and just wanted to say hi" out of the Mavs section. That is absolutely ok. But what has gone on here over the past several months is absolutely over the line. Threads about the Mavs that no one is interested in will die a very, very quick death. That is absolutely fine. But give the members of this site an opportunity to make that decision.. We don't need a moderator deciding that one particular Mavs topic is better than another in his opinion. If it's Mavs related and has no offensive material, the moderator should just do what has always been done on this site.. stay the hell out of the thread unless they want to contribute to the conversation.