There were the instructions from our admin in a recent discussion about lots of threads about the same subject (the initial snafu, incidentally wasn't about threads being critical of Shaw et al.):
No one's deleting any posts or silencing any critics. But lots of threads on the same basic topic function to crowd out other topics off the topline page (including, as Bos noted rather ironically, the predictions thread for today's game). This is especially an issue when we've got a lot of in-season sports happening at once, as we do right now, with FB, MBB, WBB, WVB, MS, WS, and WS&D all in action at the moment. Not to mention various other Stanford-related and off-topic threads.
For an exemplar of board thread efficiency, note the combined thread for all of the women's basketball team's games in the Victoria Invitational, which keeps everything in one nice and tidy place.
(And incidentally, as a matter of fair warning, although I was not the one to combine the threads this time, I did previously post a friendly reminder to stick to a single thread, which was immediately ignored, so my fellow moderator's actions didn't come out of nowhere.)
Quote:"Whenever possible, keep posts of the same subject within the same thread unless considerable time (weeks, months, not seconds or minutes)."
No one's deleting any posts or silencing any critics. But lots of threads on the same basic topic function to crowd out other topics off the topline page (including, as Bos noted rather ironically, the predictions thread for today's game). This is especially an issue when we've got a lot of in-season sports happening at once, as we do right now, with FB, MBB, WBB, WVB, MS, WS, and WS&D all in action at the moment. Not to mention various other Stanford-related and off-topic threads.
For an exemplar of board thread efficiency, note the combined thread for all of the women's basketball team's games in the Victoria Invitational, which keeps everything in one nice and tidy place.
(And incidentally, as a matter of fair warning, although I was not the one to combine the threads this time, I did previously post a friendly reminder to stick to a single thread, which was immediately ignored, so my fellow moderator's actions didn't come out of nowhere.)