OT: SPS Etiquette Question

[horshack.sixpack]

It seems that if you start a duplicate thread your get "Germansed". If you search for a topic of interest first and find a thread that you'd like to comment on but it is "too old" you get berated and it gets locked. We are an engineering school. What are the definitive time frames for such accusations and lockings? How old does it have to be to need a new one started? How fresh does it have to be to just add to the existing?

I don't think I've done too much of either but it is a puzzling formula...

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

I say (not that my opinion matters) that if the thread is more than a couple of months old then start a new one.

 

[Junction John]

My gut says the news cycle around here is more like a week or 2 pages,

whichever is longer. Then I'd start a new thread. I personally never go look at anything that's off the second page, but that may be more laziness than good policy.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Just learn to say 17U!

& Grow a thick skin...

There is no correct answer.

And sometime, the prior thread is headed by an obscure title line,
Which may not be read by the next person posting about the same item.

 

[Augustus McCrae]

Do SPS and etiquette go together?

 

[HotMop]

Do you **** with the door open or closed? There's always another variable.

 

[RocketDawg]

It seems that if you start a duplicate thread your get "Germansed". If you search for a topic of interest first and find a thread that you'd like to comment on but it is "too old" you get berated and it gets locked. We are an engineering school. What are the definitive time frames for such accusations and lockings? How old does it have to be to need a new one started? How fresh does it have to be to just add to the existing?

I don't think I've done too much of either but it is a puzzling formula...

Yeah, I've wondered the same thing. I don't see anything wrong with reviving an old thread. You don't have to read it if you don't want to. A lot of folks just like to tell others what to do. As far as I know, using an old thread doesn't cost anything.

On the board for one of my cars, they have a big tendency to merge threads so there aren't multiple threads on the same subject. But if there are multiple threads, so what? When they're merged they quickly lose the flow of comments to the point that nothing makes sense.

 

[MaroonNation]

It probably has more to do with whatever timeframe the pro-Mullen posters stay in the bunker. They like to come out on day 4 after a bad loss to **** on everything, including Germanic threads.

 

[LTblows]

Don't bump the old thread, just start a new one and link the old

 

[patdog]

If a thread is older than a couple of days, and you have something new to add, start a new thread and link the old one. At least that seems to be the way it works for me.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Shamoan, you really need to weigh in on this one.

I still recall your carpet bombing/bumping response to an extremely irritating poster a while back. I don't remember all the details...he was either a terrible troll in Maroon sheep clothing or just an asshat rival fan. Might have been baseball season. None the less, everyone was pissed, but I found it diabolically hilarious.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

Are you trying to bring up Brexit stocks or something?**

For real, I would say start a new thread after it's been about a week, but you could always do what Karl said.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Well played, sir.

 

[Dawgbite]

If the thread is about firing Mullen or bunting, you must start a new thread because we can't have too many threads about firing Mullen or bunting. If you want to post about bourbon, shirt colors, or Big Green Eggs, you need to bump an old thread because they really need to be brought to a conclusion. All other thread topics are at the discretion of the poster. Hope this helps.

 

[BiscuitEater]

I don't see anything wrong with reviving an old thread. You don't have to read it if you don't want to.

Neither do I .. But I do think there are some 'unwritten' SPS rules ..

1) There has to be a BGE thread in the first 3 pages .. or one will appear
2) There has to be at least one thread bitching about uniforms on the first two pages
3) Front page HAS to have a thread blasting the 'coach de jour' (right now it's a tight race between Hevesy & Mullen)

 

[dawgstudent]

Since a lot of us use the threaded view - a 100 reply thread that's 2 weeks old and is bumped is annoying. Just link it.

 

[Jgbishop]

Since when do we care about etiquette around here? Do we need to create a "safe space" board now too?**

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Since a lot of us use the threaded view - a 100 reply thread that's 2 weeks old and is bumped is annoying. Just link it.

Thanks. I couldn't understand the animosity. If the length screws up your view, then I suppose it would be annoying. Maybe this also explains why we can have a game thread but people still start approximately 1MM individual game threads anyway.***

 

[GloryDawg]

Do you **** with the door open or closed? There's always another variable.

What door?

 

[RocketDawg]

Since a lot of us use the threaded view - a 100 reply thread that's 2 weeks old and is bumped is annoying. Just link it.

Doesn't bother me. I just scroll down past it with a couple of quick flicks of the wrist. I'm using a laptop and can see how it would be more difficult on a phone though. I very rarely check the board on the phone (or iPad); have done it a time or two when sitting in the stadium but never under ordinary circumstances.

Regardless, some make much ado about nothing when an old thread is revived.

 

[JungRebel]

Testing...

Too soon?

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Just start a new thread ************