There is a thread in GD about the resignation of Sarah Palin.
There have been twothreads opened in MPSIMS about the resignation of Sarah Palin and they were immediately closed solely due to the existence of the GD thread.
It is, in my opinion, perfectly appropriate for different posters to open different threads in different forums on the same subject. The forums are not alike, and do not serve the same purposes, and do not serve the same population of posters. A subject could validly be discussed in almost all forums at once, depending on the direction and focus of the thread. (Admittedly, Comments on Cecil’s Columns and Comments on Staff Reports, and Cafe Society and The Game Room are most likely one or the other sets.)
That admitted, I hope that the mere existence of a thread somewhere on the SDMB on a particular subject does not now mean that no other threads on the subject are allowed. I do not believe that is a good direction for the board.
Generally speaking, Frank, there’s no problem with different threads on the same (general) topic, in different forums for different purposes.
Thus, for example, a debate on WHY Sarah Palin resigned could be in GD, and a factual question on what happens legally when an Alaska governor resigns could be in GQ, and a discussion about the speech itself could be in Cafe Society, etc. In this particular case, all three threads were basically about the same thing: comments and opinions about the resignation itself. Like an obituary thread, the discussion content is pretty much the same regardless of forum, and so extra threads were… well, extra.
I disagree; I find discussion content in GD and MPSIMS to be not very much the same.
shrug Whatever. Perhaps in this case they would have been. We’ll never know. I do know that many MPSIMS denizens almost never go to GD, and vice versa, and I would hope that there would be an understanding of that.
No, I did not. Is there some reason I should have kept this private?
Even had this been, under the old rules, in the Pit, I would have written it about the same. It is, I hope, a constructive criticism, not a lambasting.
I do have to agree with Frank about the populations being very different. MPSers and GDers sometimes hardly even come to know of one anothers’ existences. Not that one is superior to the other; it’s just that different users frequent different forums. It’s true that some are all over the place, and I’ve been a bit more involved in MPS lately, what with Polycarp needing help and our cat needing toilet training. But ordinarily, I don’t even open that forum. And I’m sure there are MPS people who’d sooner take a beating as to open GD. That’s just the nature of the thing.
Count me in as somebody who goes to MPS and not GD. Okay, so I may go there and read occasionally if I’ve finished everything interesting in every other forum (yeah, that does actually happen.) People in GD get really angry, and it’s really hard to fight the impulse to defend the guy with the alternate opinion, even if I know he is wrong. In the Pit, you can at least tell which threads are going to lambast which person, but not in GD. And, as I’ve already said, I find the indirect insults in GD far more sinister than the direct ones in the Pit.
So please reconsider closing threads in different forums just because they ask the same question. By the different forums’ very nature, the actual results would have been different.
Oh, and Frank, I would think you’d need to do both. Report the appropriate threads, and provide a link to this thread in your reports. Reports go straight to their email, which they most likely check more often.
My only point was that a Reported Post would have gone directly to all the relevant Mods. Not every Mod opens ATMB every day. I have no problem with this thread; I was just wondering whether you had considered direct action/request as well.
I closed the thread, and I’ll be happy to reopen it. Your (plural) point about GDers and MPSIMSers being different constituencies is a fair one.
And, FYI, “report this post” is your best bet for getting my attention on something you’d like me to do – I start my day with reading the email in the account where those flags go, and see when a new email arrives. Though I read ATMB daily, it’s not my first stop on the boards.