I agree with both of these posts. Too few people adhere to what used to be long-established netiquette of searching thoroughly before starting a new thread, and only starting a new thread if it was truly necessary. The regulars on a board would collectively shout you down if you breached this netiquette.

Instead, we now have the Twitter mentality of start a new thread for every random thought that comes into your head, no matter how often it comes into other people's heads. And there are too many people who will then vocally claim that this is acceptable.

Thus, one idea: Make the starting of a new thread conditional on the making of a $1 or $2 donation to charity. That would concentrate minds, and reduce the number of useless new threads (and the amount of merging work for mods) without opening FT to accusations of profiteering.