1. People refer to posts in other threads without linking, expecting the reader (me) to slog through 80 pages to find their relevant post.
2. The search feature in this, and pretty much every other internet forum is terrible.
3. At 15 posts per page, it's too many page loads to get through a thread (which is why I chose 8 as the number of pages where I stop paying attention).
4. I probably should have said "topic has apparently been discussed to completion, because now there are multiple pages of horse puns regarding Ann Coulter and Sarah Jessica Parker" instead of "morphed far away..."
ghijkmnop wrote:Maybe the racism argument I got into a week ago where Tess pointed me to "the Trump thread" without any reference to where in the thread is an exception rather than the rule.
3. At 15 posts per page, it's too many page loads to get through a thread (which is why I chose 8 as the number of pages where I stop paying attention).
Adding several additional threads per topic would exponentially increase page loads.
Here is where we disagree. I have run multiple fora, and have found that 30-50 posts per page actually allows for conversations to flow better and longer, with a decreased risk of breaking context when a page changes. For example, if this forum broke into a new page every 45 posts instead of 15, the likelihood that an important post be buried by a page change has been cut by two-thirds, and additionally, the reader doesn't have to wait for two more page loads.
Threads are allowed to continue well beyond their obvious end, and that they become a waste of bandwidth to read when this or the more-common occurrence of circular arguments begin.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
ghijkmnop wrote:Like I alluded to earlier, it's more likely that by the time you hit 100 posts, the thread has become a circular argument, and when it gets to that point, it's time to call it a day instead of beating a dead horse.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
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