# Cap the size of threads, or move posts up/down, or what? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693 "2015-07-20T14:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/21 "2015-07-20T17:57:26Z")
I just want the ability to have more than 40 posts on a page. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/22 "2015-07-20T18:23:01Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I just want the ability to have more than 40 posts on a page. Upper Left corner of page: User CP Below the **Your Control Panel** column heading, the eighth entry, (the third below the sub-heading **Settings & Options** ): Edit Options Scroll down past the **Login & Privacy** box. Scroll down past the **Messaging & Notification** box. The third entry in the **Thread Display Options** box is Number of Posts to Show Per Page Use this option to set the number of posts to show in a thread before splitting the display into multiple pages. Number of Posts to Show Per Page: (with a drop down box to select a number) The options are 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 100, 150, and 200 pages. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/23 "2015-07-20T18:31:06Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > What do you mean “we no longer do threads on?” What’s stopping you from starting a thread on an individual topic that you find interesting? > > Sometimes threads on basically the same topic are merged, but mods don’t create these mega-threads, posters do. So evidently some people don’t mind them. Right, I didn’t intend my comments to be taken as “I don’t like when mods create these meta threads.” I don’t like the meta threads, period. I recognize they are community created, I just prefer communities that have more discrete threads, thus why I said I participate less here than I otherwise would since I’m not going to wade through a 5,000 post thread to say, discuss the police officer shooting in Charleston, SC because instead of discussing such incidents individually we now lump all police shootings into one giant thread, just as an example. I’ve found that if you try to create a thread that is in the bailiwick of one of the mega threads, it gets low participation. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/24 "2015-07-20T18:45:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The thread that inspired the comment is a [not a real good example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18532844#post18532844) – the one where tomndebb IMO re-write the OP in post 20 and ask people to respond to it rather than the OP. > > But you’ve been here a long time, and I’m sure you’ve seen it many times. I 've lost track of the times I’ve heard a poster get warned or noted, and claimed they never saw the instructions that they just violated. I’m nure not every poster was sincere in this claim, but I’m sure plenty of them were. > > I’m just looking for some workable idea to make mod posts stand out from the rest. I’m not wedded to any particular means or any particular number of posts that should trigger … something. I’ve seen it many times. It’s usually a poster who couldn’t be bothered to read 4-5 posts before not 4-5 pages. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/25 "2015-07-20T20:39:33Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Upper Left corner of page: User CP … Fantastic! Christmas is come early…or ignorance is fought? ---
**Author:** ![Longshanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Longshanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Longshanks)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/26 "2015-07-22T08:32:41Z")
How about having some type of flagging system like they have on msn hotmail. A copy of all the mod notes could appear at the top of the thread near the OP, like a sticky or something. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/27 "2015-07-22T14:30:11Z")
> [@Longshanks](#): > > How about having some type of flagging system like they have on msn hotmail. A copy of all the mod notes could appear at the top of the thread near the OP, like a sticky or something. Firstly, vBulletin has no such function. The modes could edit the first post with a list of notes but that would be a pain in the ass. That’s a lot of work to solve a problem that hasn’t been much of a problem at all in sixteen years of this board’s existence. I doubt that anyone is going to pick up an official warning for violating an obscure Mode Note from weeks earlier. If this was a common problem we could search for a solution but I’m not sure that it’s ever happened once. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693/28 "2015-07-22T15:01:54Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The thread that inspired the comment is a [not a real good example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18532844#post18532844) – the one where tomndebb IMO re-write the OP in post 20 and ask people to respond to it rather than the OP. It’s not an example at all, since as far as I can see no one was moderated on the basis of the instruction, despite it being near the beginning of a long thread. > [@](#): > > But you’ve been here a long time, and I’m sure you’ve seen it many times. I 've lost track of the times I’ve heard a poster get warned or noted, and claimed they never saw the instructions that they just violated. I’m nure not every poster was sincere in this claim, but I’m sure plenty of them were. I’ve revoked warnings when I felt a poster’s claim not to have seen a note or instruction was honest, especially when their response came within the time that could be reasonably expected to compose a post. I normally won’t if it appears that a response was due to failure to read even a few posts back. If my instructions were a long way back, I will usually issue a reminder rather than a warning if someone overlooks them. Again, I think you are looking for a solution in search of a problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cap-the-size-of-threads-or-move-posts-up-down-or-what/725693.md?page=1)