# Can we have no more omnibus threads please? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 18, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549 "2015-07-18T21:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/21 "2015-07-19T02:01:10Z")
Maybe at least put a rough time limit / number of posts in them till they get closed and version 2.0 or whatever can be started? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/22 "2015-07-19T02:31:09Z")
If it gets to the point where, say, 25% of the threads on the 1st page are omnibus threads, then we probably need to do something. But I don’t think we’re close to being there yet. Having said that, it would be nice if folks were a bit more judicious about this. An omnibus Trump thread? Really? Does he need _more_ attention than he’s getting? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/23 "2015-07-19T03:00:00Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > What about a chartreuse microbus? > [@running\_coach](#): > > Is that the one you want behind the suicide jockey? > [@Senegoid](#): > > That would be the combined omnibus thread about dynamite truckers and long-haired friends of Jesus. Well, I’ll join your little convoy, truckin’ through the night… As for suggestions, if I may offer one from another board (International Skeptics) that I frequent, perhaps when a thread reaches a certain point, close it and open another with the same name, but with “Part 2” (or even 3 or 4) on it. That allows the mega-sized thread to fall down the board, while allowing the ‘usual suspects’ to continue their argument/debate/pier six brawl. Don’t know how well it would work here, just a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/24 "2015-07-19T04:42:01Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I appreciate having all discussion about why it’s perfectly acceptable, not to say desirable, for the police to shoot black people all in one spot. As opposed to shooting them in different spots? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/25 "2015-07-19T11:31:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > As opposed to shooting them in different spots? I knew that sentence didn’t quite work. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/26 "2015-07-19T12:18:32Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > So who’s going to start the Omnibus moderator complaint thread here in ATMB? It was started in IMHO. > **[How may official warnings do you have?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=762280)** > > If you are unsure, go to the User CP tab. It will list all of your warnings. Fly your flag…be proud…not ashamed. I have one, from 2010. Anybody know the poster with the most and still an active unbanned poster here? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/27 "2015-07-19T13:26:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > It was started in IMHO. > > [How may official warnings do you have? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=762280) Okay, now that that one is complete, we need to add an Omnibus Omnibus thread where ALL the Omnibus threads go. If we work at this long enough, we can get this board down to one forum with one thread and one mod. Actually we’d probably need 2 forums, the second being a Sour Grapes forum for bitching about that mod’s moderation of the Omnibus Omnibus Forum. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/28 "2015-07-19T13:26:36Z")
More generally, it’s obvious that what this place needs is more rules. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/29 "2015-07-19T13:56:31Z")
Nah. Needs more cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/30 "2015-07-19T15:07:52Z")
Each viewpoint should have its own thread – make it a lot easier for those who only want to read things with which they agree. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/31 "2015-07-19T15:47:21Z")
There should be one thread for the entire board, per day. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/32 "2015-07-19T16:04:15Z")
Funny, I was trying to work up the energy for an Omnibus Omnibus Pit Thread, but decided to eat some ice cream and take a nap instead. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/33 "2015-07-19T16:06:30Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Omnibus threads get too long and unmanageable. Good points get lost in the clutter of other points, and thereafter, following either point becomes impossible. Sure, the alternative is to have a thread every other day about some specific event, but wtf, electrons are cheap. Omnibus threads are useless when it comes to searching for specific points on specific events. Those threads are like having one large, unlabeled, file cabinet with everything thrown in instead of filed. > > Let’s end this nonsense before we get lost in the omnibus of omnibus clutter. Not sure if this would help but there is an option in your personal settings to view threads by a “reply tree”, rather than linearly: User CP/Your Control Panel/Settings and Options/Edit Options/Thread Display Options/Thread Display Mode/Linear Oldest, Linear Newest, Threaded, Hybrid ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/34 "2015-07-19T16:49:07Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Having said that, it would be nice if folks were a bit more judicious about this. An omnibus Trump thread? Really? Does he need _more_ attention than he’s getting? Eh. The Donald will be Pitted no matter what; at this point in his “Presidential” “nomination” “candidacy” it’s as inevitable as the tides. At least this keeps it all in one thread, so his vanity searching will only get one hit. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/35 "2015-07-19T18:36:46Z")
> [@Emiliana](#): > > I knew that sentence didn’t quite work. I would like to assume that was done on purpose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/36 "2015-07-19T18:38:39Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Okay, now that that one is complete, we need to add an Omnibus Omnibus thread where ALL the Omnibus threads go. If we work at this long enough, we can get this board down to one forum with one thread and one mod. Actually we’d probably need 2 forums, the second being a Sour Grapes forum for bitching about that mod’s moderation of the Omnibus Omnibus Forum. Or, rather than put the whole board into just one thread, we could have Omnibus Threads all the way down. It will be an instabannable offense to post in the Sour Grapes forum in any color other than purple. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/37 "2015-07-19T18:43:08Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Eh. The Donald will be Pitted no matter what; at this point in his “Presidential” “nomination” “candidacy” it’s as inevitable as the tides. At least this keeps it all in one thread, so his vanity searching will only get one hit. More to the point, The Donald Pit thread should serve to get the Donald posts out of SRIOTD, where his prodigious volume of idiotically pittable pronouncements have been cluttering things up with items so profoundly stupid (The Donald’s stupidity, not the posts themselves or the posters) that they aren’t even worthy of being in the SRIOTD thread. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/38 "2015-07-19T20:00:33Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Eh. The Donald will be Pitted no matter what; at this point in his “Presidential” “nomination” “candidacy” it’s as inevitable as the tides. At least this keeps it all in one thread, so his vanity searching will only get one hit. There are 6 active threads about Trump on this MB, 2 of them in The Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/39 "2015-07-20T01:39:15Z")
How about a Windows 10 omnibus? There are 6 or more threads going right now. I think it’s about to get worse. Put another way - I disagree with the OP. I think there’s a place for omnibus threads. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549/40 "2015-07-30T21:53:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If it gets to the point where, say, 25% of the threads on the 1st page are omnibus threads, then we probably need to do something. But I don’t think we’re close to being there yet. > > Having said that, it would be nice if folks were a bit more judicious about this. An omnibus Trump thread? Really? Does he need _more_ attention than he’s getting? That’s my thread, and I did it to _reduce_ the attention her gets (here, that is.) I thought we might get swamped by threads about every outrageously stupid offensive things he says. Isn’t one Trump thread better than 1 new thread about him every couple of days, or hours? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-have-no-more-omnibus-threads-please/725549.md?page=3)