Moving threads

wylo

Ok, so sometimes threads are moved as they are not in the suitable forum, that is understandable. But do you not think that sometimes that is a real waste, and can sometimes even kill off a thread altogether?

unless its waaaayyyyy off topic could the mod keep it where it is, and just leave a notification in the forum it should be in that there is a thread that may interest them?

Its just sometimes you will get far more interesting responses in one forum and all of the sudden the thread dies off because it has been moved to a much quieter but more "appropriate" forum.

This thought occurred to me, when on the Limerick forum someone posted a thread about UL rag week, this would interest alot of Limerick people,but it is now moved and you can be sure the majority of Limerick heads will now not read it, effectively killing off the thread.

This is not the first time ive seen this.
Another example I remember seeing is in PI a good while back, where someone had a work problem, and was getting good advice. Now the problem wasnt exactly a 'true' PI and was moved to another work related forum where it then received no more replies.

DeVore

Because people in Politics or Motors or AH dont want to have their forums littered with people who post there "so their thread will be seen". The proper way forward is for people to visit the correct forums for their interest.

In your example, perhaps people are just not interested. Usually when a thread is moved, a link is left in the original thread and leads people to the right forum.

DeV.

stovelid

Also re; the mania in AH for shunting threads off to other forums like Dublin City. It's annoying when you fall foul of the rules in another forum for a post that you added in good faith when the thread was in a totally different forum.

If you're going to shunt threads over on a whim, could you at least prune them (if the thread has only a few posts that is, which is usually the case) or at least put a disclaimer on-thread to say they have come from another forum?

sceptre

stovelid wrote: »

It's annoying when you fall foul of the rules in another forum for a post that you added in good faith when the thread was in a totally different forum.

That shouldn't happen and is a perfectly reasonable and logical defence for a member if it does happen (which it shouldn't)

If you're going to shunt threads over on a whim, could you at least prune them (if the thread has only a few posts that is, which is usually the case) or at least put a disclaimer on-thread to say they have come from another forum?

One of those should happen. Ideally the second one at least. I know that any threads that have been shunted to Politics from AH have, as far as I've noticed, always included a useful note from the AH mods that it's been moved and hence subsequently subject to Politics rules. Posts that were already there are either not subject to the more stringent rules in Politics or are snipped without penalty so that they are compliant. In the case of the thread mentioned by the OP, when it was moved by the Limerick mods into the UL board, such a note was inserted.