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When looking at the Community Forum, I can see several moved threads on the front page. This isn't really a big deal, but I was just wanting to know why a moved thread still appears in the original forum it was posted in. It just seems like that's another way for a poster to get more publicity for his topic, by posting it in the wrong section, then getting it moved, so it appears in two forums. It would seem like a better idea if when a thread is moved, there is no longer a sign of it in the original forum. I guess this could go along the lines of evidence being needed for a warning, but it just seems really unnecessary for that purpose.

If threads were moved, and showed no sign of it, that would allow other, proper topics to come back onto the front page. Even though they may have been ignored by the community at first, they still have more of a place on the front page than a locked thread. This is really only a problem in the Community Forums, because it can move rather slow, which will keep the moved threads on the same page for a fairly long time.

  • 01.17.2008 5:53 AM PDT
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Honestly, and truthfully, you and I both know people would start saying 'Where the hell did my topic go?', thus creating the spam we are trying to avoid; especially since it does take a while for them to see they have a private message from the Soul. If the thread weren't to have a 'ghost' effect, people would get confused, and those posting in the topic would think it got deleted. In my opinion, it would just cause what we are trying to avoid.

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The obvious answer would be to send the OP a private message telling them that the thread was moved, but sometimes other people complain as well. "Where did this thread go, I liked it! It did nothing wrong!"

etc. Also, in any place where people seeing it is wanted, the thread gets washed out pretty quick.
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  • 01.17.2008 7:02 AM PDT
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I was going to post a thread about this. For some reason I decided to look through the second page (go me!).

Anyway, the obvious disadvantage of moving threads is that people will get more publicity for their topic if they intentionally post in a slower forum (i.e. Septagon) in order to get it moved to a more fast-paced forum (i.e. Halo 3 Forum). When their thread gets moved, it would stay on the front page of the slower forum much longer, and as a result it would get bumped a lot more times in the faster forum, keeping it on top for longer.

I was debating whether or not I should have brought this up as an issue because of a few things.

I'm assuming, for one, that most users share my habit of almost never opening a moved thread. If no extra users from the off-topic forum read/contribute to the thread, then it doesn't really (so to speak) make the thread's legal cross-posting unfair to other threads. I rarely look at locked threads, and I almost never check into locked threads with that increasingly common "Moved:" prefix. Granted, I don't like the amount of filth covering the Septagon, but everyone knows that people will always find away to throw their garbage where it's not supposed to go. Err...litter. I should condense my vocabulary more often. Anyway, the point there is that moved topics aren't really beacons of attention. They don't really have that "look at me" sticker (what a dumb analogy).

The other key point here is that I'm not really opposed to the system when people are not abusing it. Frankly, locking the topic, duplicating it in another forum, deleting the original's replies and changing the post message is the most simple and efficient way to get a post-moving script working with the least server power. Not only that, but it's the most convenient. A PM would work for the individual user, but what if someone else saw the thread title and wanted to reply, but couldn't find it later? The current way is ultimately the most efficient way of doing it, and it's not harmful when people are sincerely oblivious to where their post should go.

And while it's true that abusers of the system can get their thread more attention, that won't generally be the case because mods can generally spot shenanigans. Because they are, after all, the masters of them.

  • 01.17.2008 11:35 PM PDT
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Some Ideas:



Perhaps everyone who has posted in the thread recently (threshold 7 days) should get an automatic PM about the thread if they wish to have one.
To turn this feature on people could go to their settings to toggle the feature, it could be on by default.


OR If people get hundreds of PM's perhaps instead there could be an option when you post in a topic "Notify me if thread is moved", this could be off by default.


OR OR Maybe in the forum there could be a window that can be opened via the top "Recently moved topics" which then shows topics which have been moved so not to confuse people.


Well that is it from me.
*Gasps for breathe*

[Edited on 01.18.2008 7:21 AM PST]

  • 01.18.2008 7:20 AM PDT
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What do icebergs do?
Wait, ninjas can melt?

  • 01.18.2008 9:19 AM PDT

I guess that makes Achronos Global Warming. He'll eventually make you all melt and so you can flood our coasts with justice.

[Edited on 01.18.2008 9:39 AM PST]

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  • 01.18.2008 9:39 AM PDT

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I sank the Titanic.
What? Leo was on board, I didn't have a choice.

Touché.

  • 01.18.2008 9:50 AM PDT