Originally Posted by
DeaconFlyer
In a busy forum, a post will be long gone (past page 2) after a week. And if it's not, that means that lots of people have been posting in it, indicating that it is a topic with a lot of interest, and probably shouldn't be merged anyways.
Ha...most threads on common topics are started by relatively new posters. Do you really think they will know to make a "promise" along with their question?
Both excellent points. The only time a thread should be mega-threaded is if the conversation about the OP evolves into a generic conversation that is already being discussed in a (narrowly focused!) mega-thread. Otherwise it should be left to find its own way or die a natural death.
And if there IS already a conversation
specific to the OP in an existing thread then the correct course would be to lock the new thread with a link to the existing pertinent thread.
I realize this might require a little more work by moderators, and that they are unpaid (although not always uncompensated), but mega-threading is killing the functionality of FT. It has to be fixed.