Conspiracy of the disappearing conspiracy threads

TalkieWalkie

Maybe there is something I don't know about here but ima go ahead with this theory that CTers forum aint worth the database space it could be saved on.

Who kills the older conspiracy theory threads ? I been around here about 6 months, from then until now there has rarely been more than 7 pages of threads in the CT forum. Yesterday there were 8 pages, today it's back to 7 pages. Daily there are several new threads being created, It seems older threads are falling into a black hole or something.
The after hours forum has 1000+ pages, Unlike this forum, all they do there is talk trivial 8ollox about nothing, like.. CLOSER or VOGUE magazines, big brother, who killed Phil Mitchell Kinda crap...

Examples..
"is this guy on a boner"
"your last text"
"Post your desktop"

And they call us crazy :eek: .

Conspiracy being.. Where are the old CT threads going ? Why does it never get past 8 pages ? If the are being deleted; why ? And why keep the trivial 8ollox from the other forum (1000+ pages) ?

RoboClam

Well the "Paul McCartney Conspiracy Theory" thread has been going nearly a year.

The older threads are still there, they just get pushed down by the new threads. Once a thread is gone long enough, a new one is generally created in its place (9/11 threads are a good example of this).

We don't get 1000s of pages because this is pretty much a debating forum most of the time and it requires both sides to keep making new points. But there is only a finite information on any topic, so inevitably, people run out of things to say. I guess in general it takes longer to reply to threads in this forum. Both CTers and skeptics alike generally put effort into replying to threads. There are fewer one word answers here than in AH. Talking about if someone has a boner or not doesn't require much effort.

If we had a "Post your desktop" thread we could post indefinitely.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Can't you change the settings to see threads further back than 6 months! you might find your missing threads then!

TalkieWalkie

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Can't you change the settings to see threads further back than 6 months! you might find your missing threads then!

Like I said, the after hours forum has 1000+ threads. I didn't change my setting to realise that.

TalkieWalkie

RoboClam wrote: »

Well the "Paul McCartney Conspiracy Theory" thread has been going nearly a year.

The older threads are still there, they just get pushed down by the new threads. Once a thread is gone long enough, a new one is generally created in its place (9/11 threads are a good example of this).

We don't get 1000s of pages because this is pretty much a debating forum most of the time and it requires both sides to keep making new points. But there is only a finite information on any topic, so inevitably, people run out of things to say. I guess in general it takes longer to reply to threads in this forum. Both CTers and skeptics alike generally put effort into replying to threads. There are fewer one word answers here than in AH. Talking about if someone has a boner or not doesn't require much effort.

If we had a "Post your desktop" thread we could post indefinitely.

Yeah I get ya, the Paul thread keeps getting revived. But where do the threads go that are not being revived. CT forum always seems to be 7 pages :S. I know I can use search and find older threads but I cant browse through them...

RoboClam

TalkieWalkie wrote: »

Yeah I get ya, the Paul thread keeps getting revived. But where do the threads go that are not being revived. CT forum always seems to be 7 pages :S. I know I can use search and find older threads but I cant browse through them...

Ah, I see what you mean. You have it set to only show threads for the last 2 months. You can change that by going here...

http://img651.imageshack.us/f/50037077.jpg/

You should be able to see like 70 pages of threads if you set it to "beginning"!

XxMCRxBabyxX

TalkieWalkie wrote: »

Like I said, the after hours forum has 1000+ threads. I didn't change my setting to realise that.

More people post in that one! It's not as specific as CT which means more people can contribute thus more threads!

TalkieWalkie

Ah, skin I was using doesn't show that option. Cheers lads.

Mod - Drop this thread into the black hole too

TerryTibbs!

Proof that Conspiracy Theorists put 2+2 together and get 5?

uprising2

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

Proof that Conspiracy Theorists put 2+2 together and get 5?

But when 4 is found they put up their hand and admit it, this conspiracy theory is a tad simpler than 9/11 for instance, the answers add up and the conspiracy is no longer.

My name is URL

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

Proof that Conspiracy Theorists put 2+2 together and get 5?

They keep on searching for the missing 1 though.. rather than just accept that it doesn't exist because that's what they're told to accept =p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I

hehe

TalkieWalkie

The after hours crowd are always taking shots at the CT crowd, this was a good opportunity to hit back.

As for the 2+2 thing... It would be absolutely ridiculous and moronic to suggest that you found proof to suggest CTrs generally would come up with 5 as I am only one person in a sea of Ctrs :rolleyes:

I think you just put 2 and 2 together and came up with DOH !

TerryTibbs!

TalkieWalkie wrote: »

The after hours crowd are always taking shots at the CT crowd, this was a good opportunity to hit back.

As for the 2+2 thing... It would be absolutely ridiculous and moronic to suggest that you found proof to suggest CTrs generally would come up with 5 as I am only one person in a sea of Ctrs :rolleyes:

I think you just put 2 and 2 together and came up with DOH !

yeh, cool.

Esel

2+2 = Catch 22.