Charlie Kirk threads

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Not that my fellow Mods haven’t mentioned this, but we did actually discuss this the morning after, and tried to find an option that allowed posters a degree of freedom to drill down on what they were specifically concerned about. Even then, yes, there is a lot of cross-posting (though less than I expected), and like the Luigi Mangione instance, there were a number of you who forgot which thread you were posting in.

Speaking to @What_Exit’s earlier analysis of the active threads, I think this is mostly where we are.

We have one main P&E thread, one Main Pit thread, a couple of “inspired by” GD/P&E threads on related but more general issues, and yesterday I created (as a Poster) a Breaking News thread, but since people were mostly talking about results, consequences, or more Pit-y subjects, it hasn’t attracted much attention. I created it in part because we do have posters that go out of their way to avoid our spirited political debates.

Overall, it looks to me that the system is working pretty well, especially after the initial massive speculation phase. Not perfect, but I’m pretty sure we’d need a few hundred mods, and possibly equal number of parallel SDMB websites to give a perfect experience customized to each user.

Someone with leverage on Bezos or Musk, get to work on it!

Okay, joking aside, your concerns @dinsdale are valid, to the point the mods were trying to get ahead of it, and I think we’re well on the path to consolidation. Though I’d bet that we’ll likely end up with a few more once the suspect in custody is confirmed, talks, and eventually makes his way to trial.

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Also, i think it’s easier to ignore five threads than it is to follow five disparate conversations all packed into one thread.

If you don’t know how to ignore a thread:

  • Scroll to the bottom of the thread
  • Find the little bell icon (one of several on the lower left on my phone)
  • Click on it, and toggle to “normal” or “muted”, so you get few or no notifications about it.
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I’m going to give my personal perspective, a more specific one, as to why the multiple threads are useful to me.

I’m currently following and contributing to two of the threads in P&E. (The “Charlie Kirk is Dead” and “Who is Charlie Kirk?” threads.) The thread about whether or not there will now be a civil war over the issue was one where I saw the thread title and noped right out of it. Not interested in that kind of chat. The thread in the Pit about Kirk, I contributed to it originally, but it has grown so fast and so quickly that I just gave up on it and I’m leaving it alone. The Breaking News thread, I wasn’t even aware of it, and as previously stated it hasn’t gotten much attention anyway, so I don’t really care about it either way.

I guess there are a couple of GD threads about Kirk (or related anyway) but I don’t generally spend time there anyway.

My point is that I treat all of the threads differently. If they were all forced into one thread, I probably wouldn’t be participating in any discussion about it here, which would be a shame. The discussions I am participating in have been constructive, interesting, and informative.

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I’m reading most of the Charlie Kirk threads but I am getting tired of seeing the top 4 or 5 most recent threads all being about him. It would be greatly appreciated by at least one poster if people would maybe go the extra mile at this time to contribute to some non-political threads.

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Every company wants to set its own industry standard.

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It’ll die off before too long. It’s big here because it’s big in the media, and the public has a short attention span.

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Thank you, I was about to say the same. Tags are awesome, but part of their utility is in keeping the number of available tags manageable.

As Syndrome said, when everything’s a tag, then nothing is.

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This ^^^^

You can always mute them for now and unmute them in about a week. After the dust has settled.

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Right, if you mute them, you’ll see right past them to other threads.

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Just like—! (giant hook reaches in, drags me off stage)

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Omnibus threads can suck. It’s a message board. Having to scroll past another thread or two is not burdensome. A pit thread is different than a P&E thread. A thread about the assassination is different from a “I’ve never heard of Charlie Kirk, have you?” thread in terms of content. A thread about the merits of political violence maybe spawned because of the current situation, but is its own discussion with its own merits regardless of the Kirk assassination.

We’re fine. Jamming them all into one thread will be clunky and would make it less readable. It’s not like we only have 10 slots for threads and Charlie Kirk is taking up 4 of them, hampering the discussion from the rest of the message board. It’s self-regulating, if there’s not enough interest in various aspects of the discussion to sustain multiple threads they’ll naturally die off. There’s no need to consolidate.

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Lord, you’re outlook is as dark as mine. LOL

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Which leaves only one solution: a dedicated subcategory within ATMB where posters can complain that there are too many threads about X.

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I am outraged about your outrage over this latest outrage!

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But, if we’re to be disciplined about posting on-topic, we will have to spend time looking for the right thread (and: figuring out the right search terms to find such a thread (*) ), instead of just posting whatever’s on our minds right now to whichever thread is the first one that popped up on screen!

( * I mean really, “sorry, I somehow could not find that thread about (N) when I looked for it!” is a frequent event here)

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and now, someone has started another thread about this nobody.