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Important => Policies => Topic started by: iago on January 05, 2008, 07:24:07 PM
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Mega-topics -- topics which have hundreds of pages (thousands of posts on one topic) -- should be avoided. Two things to keep in mind:
1. If you feel yourself going significantly off the rails of the original topic of a thread with a reply please start a new topic instead of replying to that existing thread. If you must, you can post a reply to the original topic saying "Hey, I wanted to talk about X, so I've started a new topic (link here)"
2. If you see that you're replying to a topic that has over 50 to 100 pages on it, stop. Start a new topic, no matter what.
In theory, this will help out with the server load a little (fewer posts for the software to slog through in order to display the topic), so I'm not just asking this to be annoying. :)
With this message I'm also asking all board moderators to be on the lookout for mega-topics and to try to split them up into useful chunks -- even if it's just separating the old part of the topics off into another topic labeled something like 'Mega Topic Alpha [April through July 2007]' or something like that. When splitting off old chunks, please lock the old chunk so it doesn't take on any new posts.
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This policy is under review. We may be able to relax it a little bit. We'll update this when we figure that out. :)