# What's the deal with the home page today (threadspotting)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666
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**Created:** [February 6, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666 "2009-02-06T04:16:24Z")
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/1 "2009-02-06T04:16:24Z")
Lookinng at the home page this evening, I was intrigued by the blurb for the current Threadspottting:
> [@](#):
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> SD Chicago: All about the Facist gift to the city, the Balbo Monument
When I clicked on the link, it took me to a Cecil’s classic from 1981, [(paraphrased)What’s the story behind the Fascist gift to our city?](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20090205.php), in the context of a SD Chicago home page.
What it did not take me to is a thread of any kind. Is this an error, or merely an attempt to encourage visitors to check out the Straight Dope Chicago site?
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/2 "2009-02-06T05:13:39Z")
We now run links on Thursdays to the most recent Straight Dope Chicago column; the column updates at SDC on Thursdays. These tend to be reworked/updated Straight Dope classic columns with a distinctly local slant that makes them not appropriate for running as Classics but perfect for more local coverage.
The main Straight Dope front page is still being tweaked and running the link in Threadspotting is about the only place I can put it right now. Links to Straight Dope Chicago may well get their own place on the page as the situation evolves.
It’s new content, it’s more Straight Dope, it’s all good.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/3 "2009-02-06T05:58:16Z")
If it’s not threadspotting (and it’s not, as the link goes to a column, not a thread), then why not just change the headline from Threadspotting to something more appropriate?
I mean, not that this is a huge issue, but Threadspotting is for… you know… spotting threads.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/4 "2009-02-06T11:38:29Z")
Keep in mind that this is the place where member deaths are announced under the heading of mindless pointless stuff. Something tells me that it doesn’t matter whether threadspotting is used for spotting threads or shooting skeet.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/5 "2009-02-06T14:45:40Z")
OK, point taken.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-home-page-today-threadspotting/484666/6 "2009-02-06T16:16:52Z")
Thanks for the explanation, **TubaDiva**.