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Old 07-08-2007, 03:43 PM   #6 of 16
Michael Reuben
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Re: Should Official Review/Discussion Threads in Movies be revived?


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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun
Sure, I understand it's convenient to just snap off a quick followup to a review post (instead of copy/paste/quote what is being responded to in a review), but it's in the wrong thread! If we go back to the official threads, let's try and keep the followups in the review threads to a bare minimum (as in none).
Just to add to my colleague's point: All the official review threads contained a warning that anything besides reviews (including comments and followups) would be deleted without warning. But people would still complain when their non-review posts got deleted.

When we moved to the current version of the board software, there were a lot of new moderator functions, including a relatively simple method for relocating posts from one thread to another. So a few times I tried moving non-review posts to the appropriate discussion thread, and guess what? People still complained.

Official threads are a lot more work for moderators. We're happy to do it, if that's what the membership wants, but it's a two-way street. If we go back to official threads, please make sure your post is in the right place. Otherwise, it'll move or disappear, whichever is easiest at the time.

M.



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