The way these topics are set up

[Stuttgart88]

I like the way the threads here are managed. I view a triathlon forum regularly and there is simply thread after thread popping up on the same thing. Over and over and over it goes. OK, the way this forum is managed slightly discriminates against infrequent users who may not be aware of the longer running threads but I think having fewer threads encourages better discussion & debate and continuity (though you'd wonder here sometimes). I wonder are those in favour of a more staccato like approach those who in the past have shown no appetite for proper discussion?

[geysir]

Then it must be true hell to view a decathlon forum

[Bottle of Tonic]

This relatively infrequent poster/reader is strongly in favour of the way the Ireland board is run.
For example, just now I read the last couple of pages of the 'Ireland squad v Poland' thread. Read Trappers press conference comments that were posted up from the examiner. I noticed a reference to the Andy Reid situation and players being in pubs.
Hmmm, interesting I thought, I haven't heard anything about this (I don't live in the country and wouldn't be reading up Irish papers/news every day).
So where do I go???
The blindingly obvious 'Andy Reid' thread! Search back a page or two, going back a few days, and hey there's the info I'm after. Simple, obvious, easy etc etc......
If a new thread had been opened on this little rift revelation, by now it might have been buried three or four pages back and I'd never have bothered searching for it.
Beggars belief that people would want heaps of new threads every day. It's tidy and easy to find stuff as it is.
Well played mods.

[tricky_colour]

This relatively infrequent poster/reader is strongly in favour of the way the Ireland board is run.
For example, just now I read the last couple of pages of the 'Ireland squad v Poland' thread. Read Trappers press conference comments that were posted up from the examiner. I noticed a reference to the Andy Reid situation and players being in pubs.
Hmmm, interesting I thought, I haven't heard anything about this (I don't live in the country and wouldn't be reading up Irish papers/news every day).
So where do I go???
The blindingly obvious 'Andy Reid' thread! Search back a page or two, going back a few days, and hey there's the info I'm after. Simple, obvious, easy etc etc......
If a new thread had been opened on this little rift revelation, by now it might have been buried three or four pages back and I'd never have bothered searching for it.
Beggars belief that people would want heaps of new threads every day. It's tidy and easy to find stuff as it is.
Well played mods.

I think you exposed the weakness of your own arguement there when you
said 'if a new thread had been opened up.' ie if more news about Reid had been discussed. The news you wanted would be buried several pages back in the Andy Reid thread and intermingled with other threads on Andy Reid as well as the obligatary off topic talk, so your task of finding what you are looking for becomes a bit of a nightmare.

However if things are sensible and there is a single thread on it it will be very easy to find and nicely packaged into a sensibly sized readable chunk, certainly a hell of a lot easier than finding that information in the monster 'Andy Reid' thread.

Futhermore if the infrequent reader want to find out what is currently happen with the Ireland team and has the bright idea of going to foot.ie,
what does he find?

A list of the players names!!!!!!

He cannot find what is of interest to him without reading pages and pages and pages of stuff in which he has no interest in at all.

Which incidently, is why newspapers have headlines!!!!!!!!!

He probably won't come back.

[monutdfc]

I agree with the original poster - I hardly ever venture into the Ireland forum now because of the huge unwieldy threads

[tricky_colour]

if the Sun had the same headlines on it's front page for the last 5 years it would have gone out of business by now.

[Bottle of Tonic]

I think you exposed the weakness of your own arguement there when you
said 'if a new thread had been opened up.' ie if more news about Reid had been discussed. The news you wanted would be buried several pages back in the Andy Reid thread and intermingled with other threads on Andy Reid as well as the obligatary off topic talk, so your task of finding what you are looking for becomes a bit of a nightmare.

However if things are sensible and there is a single thread on it it will be very easy to find and nicely packaged into a sensibly sized readable chunk, certainly a hell of a lot easier than finding that information in the monster 'Andy Reid' thread.

Futhermore if the infrequent reader want to find out what is currently happen with the Ireland team and has the bright idea of going to foot.ie,
what does he find?

A list of the players names!!!!!!

He cannot find what is of interest to him without reading pages and pages and pages of stuff in which he has no interest in at all.

Which incidently, is why newspapers have headlines!!!!!!!!!

He probably won't come back.

Ah I know what you're saying but, nah, don't agree.

I think its far easier to read what everyone is saying on Robbie Keane/Andy Reid by clicking on the last few pages of the single thread and reading through that, rather than searching back a few pages of thread topics and going into, say three or four different Andy Reid threads to see what the latest gee is.

There isn't any stuff I'm not interested in regarding Andy Reid etc. Thats why i want it all in the one thread. I wouldn't be clicking on some thread called 'Andy Reid spotted in pie shop' and then ignoring the one discussing his latest game. Is that the kind of stuff you have no interest in?

I see a few people share your point of view, but I come here precisely because the threads stay consistent, rather than seeing 50 new topics I'd never get through every time I visit.

[Razors left peg]

Ah I know what you're saying but, nah, don't agree.

I think its far easier to read what everyone is saying on Robbie Keane/Andy Reid by clicking on the last few pages of the single thread and reading through that, rather than searching back a few pages of thread topics and going into, say three or four different Andy Reid threads to see what the latest gee is.

There isn't any stuff I'm not interested in regarding Andy Reid etc. Thats why i want it all in the one thread. I wouldn't be clicking on some thread called 'Andy Reid spotted in pie shop' and then ignoring the one discussing his latest game. Is that the kind of stuff you have no interest in?

I see a few people share your point of view, but I come here precisely because the threads stay consistent, rather than seeing 50 new topics I'd never get through every time I visit.

Yeah I would agree with that line of thought too

[tricky_colour]

Ah I know what you're saying but, nah, don't agree.

I think its far easier to read what everyone is saying on Robbie Keane/Andy Reid by clicking on the last few pages of the single thread and reading through that, rather than searching back a few pages of thread topics and going into, say three or four different Andy Reid threads to see what the latest gee is.

There isn't any stuff I'm not interested in regarding Andy Reid etc. Thats why i want it all in the one thread. I wouldn't be clicking on some thread called 'Andy Reid spotted in pie shop' and then ignoring the one discussing his latest game. Is that the kind of stuff you have no interest in?

I see a few people share your point of view, but I come here precisely because the threads stay consistent, rather than seeing 50 new topics I'd never get through every time I visit.

The only reason you don't see the 50 new topics is because they have been bunged into the big threads. So they are all still there but now much harder to find and read.

Presumably you are interested in all the Ireland players? So why not bung the lot into one thread and make it easy for yourself?

The word thread suggests a single topic, not several topics.

[eirebhoy]

I think you exposed the weakness of your own arguement there when you
said 'if a new thread had been opened up.' ie if more news about Reid had been discussed. The news you wanted would be buried several pages back in the Andy Reid thread and intermingled with other threads on Andy Reid as well as the obligatary off topic talk, so your task of finding what you are looking for becomes a bit of a nightmare.

However if things are sensible and there is a single thread on it it will be very easy to find and nicely packaged into a sensibly sized readable chunk, certainly a hell of a lot easier than finding that information in the monster 'Andy Reid' thread.

Futhermore if the infrequent reader want to find out what is currently happen with the Ireland team and has the bright idea of going to foot.ie,
what does he find?

A list of the players names!!!!!!

He cannot find what is of interest to him without reading pages and pages and pages of stuff in which he has no interest in at all.

Which incidently, is why newspapers have headlines!!!!!!!!!

He probably won't come back.

As I keep telling you, it's only the small news items that are discussed in these threads. Stuff like a player scoring a goal, a player winning motm, a newspaper article. These things are not going to get their seperate threads for pretty obvious reasons. Simple as that.

And btw, listen to me and bloody believe me. There isn't 50 bleedin threads "bunged" into one. The only merging that goes on is with the likes of you opening stupid threads. You're really annoying me.

Just to let everyone know, the last thread tricky_colour opened was about Paul McShane. This was his post:
"A pretty none descript performance today for Hull."

It says it all. If he had his way we'd have a seperate thread on every single performance from every single player and so much more rubbish that it wouldn't be threads getting clogged up, it'd be the forum.

[tricky_colour]

Just to let everyone know, the last thread tricky_colour opened was about Paul McShane. This was his post:
"A pretty none descript performance today for Hull."

It says it all. If he had his way we'd have a seperate thread on every single performance from every single player and so much more rubbish that it wouldn't be threads getting clogged up, it'd be the forum.

And what exaclty is wrong with that?

That's what the forum is for.
There was just one match that night I believe, which related to three Irish players, and I posted about their performance and you locked it because you thought I was using it to make a post about Stephen Ireland.
You locked it because you didn't like it despite 4 other people replying to it within a hour of the match finishing. Fine if you don't want to discuss the matter but why take it upon yourself to prevent others doing so?