• Can we try to not megathread everything
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You have a forum here. You want to post about your car? Sure, post a thread. But please avoid making a megathread just for a car maker. If that happens we're going to end up with 7 megathreads in this forum and nothing else.
I find that a bit silly myself
Yes daddy
what's wrong with megathreads if discussion isn't large enough to warrant an individual thread for everything
Doesn't really matter. This is the forum for it and if a topic dies, it probably dies for a reason.
not every threads needs a post every single day either car projects and stuff like that dont exactly move fast most of the time.
If a thread solely dedicated to the fiat panda cannot survive then what the fuck is the point There is no other car worth talking about than the fiat panda
Youre kinda sending us mixed signals here garry. If mercedes owners want a little circlejerk thread, why not let them? Its not like were gonna run out of threads or anything. And if nobody uses a thread, then itll die naturally.
I don't think I'm sending mixed signals. I'm saying, here's a car forum. You can post about cars in it, it's a forum. Lets not use it to host 6 threads. Instead of posting "THE TESLA THREAD", maybe post "Has anyone got the 2018.11.23 Tesla update yet?"
So instead of 6 threads, we should have dozens of 6 post threads?
i think he wants to entice discussion without people having to trawl through threads with thousands of posts. smaller topics arent inherently bad to have, they will get shuffled to the bottom eventually, but ultimately still easy to reply to specifically later on if someone chooses to. it looks ugly right now because the subforum has few threads anyway, overtime it should populate, allowing for both large and small threads.
Personally, from being on a lot of different car/motorcycle forums, it seems a lot more useful to have discussions about a certain car in one thread about that type of car, so you get multiple owners of the car posting, and comparing their experiences, and compiling lists of common problems and their solutions to them, instead of having one thread for each instance of a car, or even worse, one instance of a problem. Then if you want to go back and review something, or if someone whos having the problem is trying to research it and comes across this subforum, its just a matter of going back a few pages, instead of "oh damn which thread about this car was that post in again?" i think the wonderful tjing about a forum is bringing similar people together and posting in the same place about things, not just maintaining one thread about my personal car that nobody else is gonna give a shit about. I know im not gonna keep tabs on everyones personal car thread, because i dont care about them enough to, whereas if someone posted in a main thread about their car/problem, i could go "oh hey something similar happened to me, heres how i fixed it". As an example there was a guy a few days ago that came into the gd thread asking about motorcycle brakes, having the post there sparked a discussion, he got some hopefully good info on the topic, and the thread continued about its merry way.
I don't understand the need to micromanage every single thread. Here's a car subforum ; do as you like. Just try not to shit the place up.
Extremely short and ultra-specific threads work well for frameworks like Reddit or 4chan but they don't work well in more old-fashioned boards like Facepunch. People gravitate towards single broad topic threads because they are more practical, not because anyone imposed them this specific method.
Megathreads are great for individual subjects which are too small to deserve multiple threads, I don't see the point of having 3 small BMW threads with barely any activity compared to 1 big BMW thread with constant discussion.
Let's just see how things go before burning @garry at the stakes.
That's how a forum is meant to work.
To be fair to all the regulars, the Honda thread kinda set the tone for the rest of the forum, since it was the first thread made for a specific car maker.
Isn't it up to the users to determine that? Why is it so wrong to have larger threads if that's how people want to browse?
I'm not the boss, but I prefer smaller threads. Easier to keep up with what you're interested in reading about.
I can definitely see the reason to avoid a per-automaker thread because it'd turn into a fustercluck pretty quickly, but I personally wouldn't be opposed to continental/national threads; a lot of design philosophy and context is shared between national automakers In the American thread you can talk about ya'lls v8 and trukks In the Japan thread can talk about your VTEC and 2JZs In the European thread you can talk about your $12,000 engine rebuild
Yea the option to make fresh threads is real nice, for sure, but why cant we have it both ways? Having semi-large threads for specific manufacturers doesnt take away from making small threads for personalized threads. Most manufacturers share so many platforms and parts between models, that make specific threads make a lot of sense.
I don't browse this subforum but thread subscriptions totally fixed all the browsing issues I had with megathreads, they're much easier to keep up with now. Subscriptions actually encourage megathreads now because you'll get notified of every new post and that's a lot easier than having to scan the subforum page for threads that sound vaguely interesting.
It also doesn't help that subforum subscriptions don't work as they say they do, all I get notified about is new threads here when I'd like new threads and replies like the option I selected
except its not. A more better analogy would be a thread entitled "politics discussion" where people can post about exactly that.
From my experience on forums, you're more likely to get help in a megathread dedicated to one subject than posting into the abyss. Like say I had an issue with my Dodge vehicle, specific to the Dodge vehicle, I'm more likely to get an answer in the "DODGE MEGATHREAD" than "Help, my 2002 Dodge Shitbox broke it's 4th motor mount, any tips?" IDK, just let the forum do it's thing. It'll organically grow into the best method of posting.
It already had. AA as a megathread worked the best and has consistently been one of the most useful hobby communities I've been part of.
Yeah honestly I don't think AA was the greatest place to try subforums out, we're a pretty smallish community that a catch-all megathread more or less went slow enough to stay in the loop on with ease There are definitely places on ewpunch that would benefit from subforums but I don't think we really needed it, in my opinion
garry thinks communities are the devil
it is true tho, back in the day you had a balance of chat thread and some unique threads. now nobody is inclined to make threads.
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