# Should the Numerous Overlapping Trump Threads Be Replaced By a More Logical Set of Threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 23, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278 "2025-01-23T04:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/1 "2025-01-23T04:25:11Z")
There are a great many overlapping Trump threads. Discussing the same subject in multiple places it is not satisfactory to some of us. So I was thinking of closing the existing threads and replacing them with a more logical structure, for example: The Trump adminstration and foreign policy The Trump adminstration and healthcare The Trump adminstration and immigration etc. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/2 "2025-01-23T04:35:06Z")
Why is that better? If you don’t like a thread, don’t read it. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/3 "2025-01-23T04:48:47Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Any thoughts? Seems like a mystery franchise except the protagonist turns out to be the murderer in every story. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/4 "2025-01-23T04:50:41Z")
Considering all the Executive Orders, how many threads would you reduce them to? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/5 "2025-01-23T04:55:06Z")
Speaking only for myself, just… no. Please don’t make us overseers of what are appropriate topics. Posters start threads for their own reasons, and we let them run along on the topics they have chosen. If we see threads that are obviously duplicative, we combine them. But generally, it’s up to posters to start threads and discuss what _they_ choose. Not what we choose. I think we should keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/6 "2025-01-23T05:05:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Considering all the Executive Orders, how many threads would you reduce them to? _The Sum Of All Fears_…no, wait…that’s a different Tom Clancy novel. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > Please don’t make us overseers of what are appropriate topics. Posters start threads for their own reasons, and we let them run along on the topics they have chosen. Yeah, it is asking _a bit much_ for moderators to start trying to arrange Trump threads into some kind of Dewey Decimal system of organization. The man creates outrage like a Michelangelo of mischief; trying to corral that into some scheme of organization is like trying to handcuff an octopus. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/7 "2025-01-23T05:06:38Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > trying to corral that into some scheme of organization is like trying to handcuff an octopus. On meth. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/8 "2025-01-23T05:41:59Z")
Me, the octopus…or both? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/9 "2025-01-23T06:27:38Z")
Seems they are not gonna stop anytime soon. Maybe a thing like the Covid forum. Just Trump topics. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/10 "2025-01-23T08:04:14Z")
This seems like a solution in search of a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/11 "2025-01-23T08:30:18Z")
I’ve seen stuff like that tried on other forums (on different subjects than Trump), and it just frustrates the moderators and posters alike. The moderators get extra work and posters angry with them, while posters get frustrated with the conversation being artificially split into different niches that they likely don’t even agree with. And there’s lots of wrangling over where to put what, especially since plenty of subjects won’t neatly slot into a given thread and no other. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/12 "2025-01-23T08:33:30Z")
No need, they’ve been tagged. #trump #Politics & Elections is the pen for most of them. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/13 "2025-01-23T10:08:11Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > _The Sum Of All Fears_…no, wait…that’s a different Tom Clancy novel. What about _A Confederacy of Dunces_? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/14 "2025-01-23T10:09:00Z")
Agreed strongly. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/15 "2025-01-23T14:00:04Z")
Agree this is a failed idea from the git-go. After trump is dead and gone, a board of dedicated historians might well want to create a taxonomy like the OP suggests to discuss the various things that were done, past tense. Instead, while the outrage is still ongoing in the present tense, it _will_ sprout new branches of wacky daily. Corralling that is harder even than this very well-turned phrase suggests: > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > like trying to handcuff an octopus. More like trying to handcuff a medusa or hydra-headed monster. For each limb you restrain, 10 more emerge spontaneously. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/16 "2025-01-23T16:33:10Z")
What a horrible way to artificially limit conversation about someone who is actively trying to disrupt and destroy lives and livelihood in so many different ways. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/17 "2025-01-23T16:45:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What a horrible way to artificially limit conversation about someone who is actively trying to disrupt and destroy lives and livelihood in so many different ways An abundance of thread opportunities ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/18 "2025-01-23T16:49:19Z")
Agree with all the comments saying there’s no need to reorganize the Trump threads, they’re fine as they are. One thing that would be nice, though, is if anyone contemplating starting yet another Trump thread would stop for a moment and consider whether their contribution could be made in one of the existing threads. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/19 "2025-01-23T16:52:40Z")
Also strongly agree with this post. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278/20 "2025-01-23T17:53:53Z")
Agree completely with this last sentiment. But … A lot of the trump threads are getting to be hundreds or thousands of posts long. Such that the OP title and OP post content are very different from what’s going on at the far end of the thread. Someone who is actively following all those threads has the contextual knowledge to pick a good existing host thread if they’re being diligent about it. But someone who is not following is in a predicament more like me. If I was wanting to post something trumply to an existing thread, I’d need to read the last 20-50 posts of about 20 or 30 threads to know which trumply thread my trumply post best fits into. The list of the trump-tagged threads just shows me an excerpt of the OP itself, not the bottom where the action is. ISTM a lot of fresh trumply OP’s are “OMG! I just found out trump did [thing that affects me]. Let’s all wail about it together.” That poster has likely not been a trump thread-fan for the last 9 years. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-numerous-overlapping-trump-threads-be-replaced-by-a-more-logical-set-of-threads/1013278.md?page=2)