One more thing….titles of threads are pretty subjective:
Lake Vostok Drilling Breakthrough vs. Lake Vostok Scientists Missing vs. Lake Vostok Magnetic Anomaly.
Strange Sound in GA vs Hum Sound Over Canada vs. Odd Sounds Heard Around The World
Unless a search function is built in to run before posting is approved, I don’t think this can be avoided.
But, ATS is pretty good with the double post SMACK DOWN, so if ONE thread shows up in lots of places, maybe the community will train these
egos…..
It just seems to me, with my limited ATS experience (1 year-ish), that the most interesting and informative posts are those with many voices and
viewpoints.
17 threads of the same general topic with only a few posts each…..less interesting.
btw I’ve totally double posted myself…..which is part of what got me thinking about this….
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Topic started on 3-2-2012 @ 10:57 AM by ns9504
Here is an idea that may help the double posting, and help facilitate “better” discussions
All threads are in one huge master forum list.
When starting a new thread, author picks click boxes for all the forums the thread applies to.
New thread then shows up in all the forums that are clicked. Yes, we will see the same discussion in multiple forums, but, and here is the kicker, it will be the SAME discussion (← really wanted to make that all caps :-)
For example - Lake Vostok Blah blah blah is the title.
Click boxes for: Breaking News, Fragile Earth, Conspiracies, Aliens, Diseases & Pandemics, Science & Technology
Now people who follow Fragile Earth forum will see Lake Vostok thread. And people who skip Fragile Earth but looooove Aliens will ALSO see Lake Vosok thread. And they will see it in the forums they are interested in. And they will (hopefully) be less likely to post YET ANOTHER Lake Vostok thread.
Check this out:
Breaking Alternative News Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen...
Fragile Earth Lake Vostok breakthrough imminent
Fragile Earth Lake Vostok scientific drilling team not responding (← this one claims to be about the “missing ppl” and the other is about “Expedition” No idea how to stop that kind of nonsense.)
Fragile Earth In Relation to Lake Vostok Thread!! Important (aaaand now this one. Straight up EGO because no one responded "enough" in the original thread??)
General Conspiracy The Lake Vostok conspiracy
Area 51 & Other Facilities Lake Vostok Magnetic Anomaly
Those last 2 are old, but help illustrate the point.
The double post issue seems to be worse when dealing with “News.”
AHHHH, Asteroid Headed For Earth! Does it go in Breaking News??? (me Me ME! I saw it first! I Want ALL the stars and flags!)
Or Fragile Earth? (I have “friends” in this forum and its familiar, so I’ll post here and hopefully people will be nice to me)
Or maybe Space Exploration? (Let’s only discuss this scientifically!)
Hey now, WHAT IF the story was posted in all 3 forums?? Remember, its ONE thread, but in Three Places.
More interesting discussions with a greater variety of people/interests/collective knowledge? Fewer double posts? Less fragmented discussions? Maybe. Imagine that!
We would still have ALL the forums, the stars and flags and favorites and subscriptions.
Thoughts??
All threads are in one huge master forum list.
When starting a new thread, author picks click boxes for all the forums the thread applies to.
New thread then shows up in all the forums that are clicked. Yes, we will see the same discussion in multiple forums, but, and here is the kicker, it will be the SAME discussion (← really wanted to make that all caps :-)
For example - Lake Vostok Blah blah blah is the title.
Click boxes for: Breaking News, Fragile Earth, Conspiracies, Aliens, Diseases & Pandemics, Science & Technology
Now people who follow Fragile Earth forum will see Lake Vostok thread. And people who skip Fragile Earth but looooove Aliens will ALSO see Lake Vosok thread. And they will see it in the forums they are interested in. And they will (hopefully) be less likely to post YET ANOTHER Lake Vostok thread.
Check this out:
Breaking Alternative News Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen...
Fragile Earth Lake Vostok breakthrough imminent
Fragile Earth Lake Vostok scientific drilling team not responding (← this one claims to be about the “missing ppl” and the other is about “Expedition” No idea how to stop that kind of nonsense.)
Fragile Earth In Relation to Lake Vostok Thread!! Important (aaaand now this one. Straight up EGO because no one responded "enough" in the original thread??)
General Conspiracy The Lake Vostok conspiracy
Area 51 & Other Facilities Lake Vostok Magnetic Anomaly
Those last 2 are old, but help illustrate the point.
The double post issue seems to be worse when dealing with “News.”
AHHHH, Asteroid Headed For Earth! Does it go in Breaking News??? (me Me ME! I saw it first! I Want ALL the stars and flags!)
Or Fragile Earth? (I have “friends” in this forum and its familiar, so I’ll post here and hopefully people will be nice to me)
Or maybe Space Exploration? (Let’s only discuss this scientifically!)
Hey now, WHAT IF the story was posted in all 3 forums?? Remember, its ONE thread, but in Three Places.
More interesting discussions with a greater variety of people/interests/collective knowledge? Fewer double posts? Less fragmented discussions? Maybe. Imagine that!
We would still have ALL the forums, the stars and flags and favorites and subscriptions.
Thoughts??
edit on 3-2-2012 by ns9504 because: another vostok thread to add...for affect
reply posted on 3-2-2012 @ 01:51 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by ns9504
Japanese sneak attack: Pearl Harbor!! <---Breaking News forum
Was the Attack on Pearl Harbor preventable? <---General Conspiracy forum
Pearl Harbor: NWO first steps towards....<---NWO forum
zeta reticuli orchestrated Pearl Harbor attack...<----Skunk Work forum
Those are just a few examples of how one story can spur varying interests and discussions.
How about this instead.
An ATS exclusive feature that for 24/48 hours gives the would be thread poster a friendly pop up after it has detected a story's already posted/linked IP and/or reads certain key words/phrases while showing some recent/active threads and asks..
"Are any of these already existing threads related to your thread/topic/subject?"
Just a thought
PEACE
Japanese sneak attack: Pearl Harbor!! <---Breaking News forum
Was the Attack on Pearl Harbor preventable? <---General Conspiracy forum
Pearl Harbor: NWO first steps towards....<---NWO forum
zeta reticuli orchestrated Pearl Harbor attack...<----Skunk Work forum
Those are just a few examples of how one story can spur varying interests and discussions.
How about this instead.
An ATS exclusive feature that for 24/48 hours gives the would be thread poster a friendly pop up after it has detected a story's already posted/linked IP and/or reads certain key words/phrases while showing some recent/active threads and asks..
"Are any of these already existing threads related to your thread/topic/subject?"
Just a thought
PEACE
reply posted on 4-2-2012 @ 11:58 AM by freedom12
reply to post by ns9504
You shoulda listed all the war-mongering Iran threads, but that would probably make your OP about four pages long.
I like the idea though.
I wonder what the average time between new threads is? 1 minute? Most are just plain nonsense. I long for the old days, when there wasn't so many frivolous threads.
You shoulda listed all the war-mongering Iran threads, but that would probably make your OP about four pages long.
I like the idea though.
I wonder what the average time between new threads is? 1 minute? Most are just plain nonsense. I long for the old days, when there wasn't so many frivolous threads.
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