First off, I didn't see the Damien Duff thread, nobody has posted to it for 5 days, people had lost interest in his thread.
Secondly, the mods can always more my thread into the Damien duff thread if they so wish.
Thirdly if I search on Damien duff he is mentioned in 250+ threads, are those all to be made into one thread? No because they also mention other
players the reality is things which people want to talk about do not always fall into a particular single category. It's complex.
Fourthly People complain about the proliferation of threads and the apparent solution of to this is to bung a load of threads into one big thread.
Now that does not solve the problem it just makes it worse, you still have the exact same number of threads but now they are all mangled
into one big ball of spaghetti in a super thread.
So it achieves little apart from a superficial appearance of order in the forum. However once a thread is opened that appearance of order soon
disappears into a bunch of mangled threads which are hard to read because they switch from one topic to another from post to post.
Often people do not even bother to quote the post the are replying to and another post is made in the meantime and it looks like they are
replying to them. The result an ugly mess.
That is made worse by a crappy editor which is not wiziwig so that you get spurious carriage returns all over the place. It does not have to be like that because I myself have wrote a much better editor than that
(still have the source code )
Furthermore the whole design of this vBulletin Solutions forums is rubbish, it is not properly threaded as for example the usenet forums are, which are much easier to navigate.
5. To use the forum as intended I have to open up and read a whole lot of threads whose content I may have no interest in whatsoever. So it seem to me that I and other "sensible people" are far more put out
than the people who find having to read a brief thread title a major psychological challanege.
Just baffles me why someone would want to persist with an obviously crappy system, but then let's not drag Trap into this
6. When I explain my reasoning I never really get any logically valid responses, which does not really surprise me lol, I guess people just do not know why they like what I consider a to be an even worse system, so for me is a bit like trying to reason with some who has been brainwashed by Church of Scientology or whatever, it's not gonna happen.
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