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Athanatos posted:When a thread is 4000 pages and someone new jumps in, everyone tends to go "omg this guy didn't read page 221, what a loving loser" Personally, I've never seen this happen in a C-SPAM megathread, I don't think it's an actual problem. Megathreads are going to happen and while I'm all for people making new smaller threads, the problem is that if the new smaller thread ends up successful, it just becomes a megathread eventually. If the new smaller thread isn't successful, it falls back a couple pages and effectively dies. I don't get the hate about megathreads. I also don't see what "rebooting" a megathread accomplishes, I haven't really seen a bunch of new posters come out for a rebooted version of a megathread that they weren't already posting in.
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Athanatos posted:I turned slow mode off for now since I'm around. I don't think it "hurts" but also it doesn't really gain anything either other than just making sure threads don't go too many pages, basically it's strange to me that people focus on "threads with lots of pages" as the main problem when they are not really a big problem. I see new people jump in to supposed "insular megathreads" all the time. Athanatos posted:Some people feel like "doomposting" should be something a moderator should deal with People calling honest descriptions of reality "doomposting" is a much bigger problem than megathreads, imo.
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Homeless Friend posted:The moniker is definitely over applied to where cspam being doomer is meme level lexicon but the phenomenon is real, to an extent. Expecting bad news can act as a crutch rather than a realistic logical progression from present information. And I think that's a far better option than enforcing a level of toxic optimism. Yeah places like the climate change thread can get pretty bad sometimes but that's just a natural reaction to the material conditions of how the climate is hosed.
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