# Suggestion for threads in Elections

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-threads-in-elections/767663>\
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**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-threads-in-elections/767663 "2016-10-04T22:11:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-threads-in-elections/767663/1 "2016-10-04T22:11:21Z")

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Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806401) thread.

I’m completely down with having threads about state and local elections and referendums in the forum\*, but could we encourage people who start such threads to notate that fact in their thread titles?

And when I say “encourage,” I of course mean “make it a rule”… 😃  
\*In fact, I’m waiting for someone to post one about California’s 2016 initiatives.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-threads-in-elections/767663/2 "2016-10-04T22:44:08Z")

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I’m with you; that thread is baffling without knowing where it applies to (which is never actually said anywhere in the thread, only in the link). But oddly enough, nobody in the thread seemed confused by it.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-threads-in-elections/767663/3 "2016-10-04T23:56:52Z")

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A 330 : 11 views-to-response ratio suggests that some people who didn’t participate may have been somewhat bemused, though…