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Double, Triple Posts on Same Topic

rms1954 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:28:51 GMT

Before being in a big hurry to spread news, one should take a minute to see if there is already a post on same topic.

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:43:08 GMT

@rms1954 AGREE!!

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Bhvbum — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:46:21 GMT

I also don't think of the QVC forum as my source of news, do others? I find it annoying to scroll past 3 notices that Tom Hanks has the virus. Won't we know that on our regular news sites?

Re: Double, Triple Posts on Same Topic

Kachina624 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:16:05 GMT

People who never bothered, need to read the board standards under "Welcome Get Started". It's a violation to cross post messages....that is, to post the same msg under more than one forum. Yet I see veterans with thousands of posts do it all the time. It just puts a burden on the mods to have to delete them.

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Montana — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 04:28:22 GMT

Why can't all Corona posts be on one thread? That way there would not be a new thread for each piece of developing news. Everyone could still contribute.

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JumpTheRope — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:13:37 GMT

Actually, since the BBs are not once they once were, I find

single threads that are 10+ pages to be overwhelming to start.

Same topic posts are one of those “scroll by..nothing to see here”,

or perhaps, “hmmmmm......I enjoy this poster’s POV.”

I don’t find it a serious issue, myself.

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CalminHeart — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:28:37 GMT

This is not a big deal to me. It's really easy to not open all of them. Maybe people don't want their post buried in a lengthy string. Maybe they felt the other posts weren't really part of what they wanted to say. Maybe people need to get it out of their system. Either way, you can't control others but you can control what you read and don't read.

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Johnnyeager — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:42:17 GMT

If someone wants to shout the latest Coronavirus news they sure aren't going to bury it on the 11th page of a thread which isn't directly labeled as this latest "news story." It's the Town Crier syndrome.

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Imaoldhippie — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:04:41 GMT

They should make temporary forum the the virus info. I come here to get away from all of it. Its worming its way into all forums.

That way people that want to read it can just go to one forum and not have to jump all over the place. And those that do not want to read about it dont have to go there.

I stopped reading the ones about it.

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Johnnyeager — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:07:39 GMT

Quarantine the topic.

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Travone — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:23:30 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
Before being in a big hurry to spread news, one should take a minute to see if there is already a post on same topic.

I completely agree. There are 4 posts on the suspended NBA season and 2 posts on the Facebook Kazoo comercial......all posted within a short amount of time. There is a search engine on this forum to check topics or you can simply scroll through a page or two to see if the topic has been covered. Some people just want to be the "first" to know something.

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Johnnyeager — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:58 GMT

TOILET PAPER now has its own thread.

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Lisa now in AZ — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:14:15 GMT

@Johnnyeager, There were 2 that I saw!

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SunSprite — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:07:32 GMT

I don't think you really have to worry about this. Q deleted a few threads overnight (one I knew was going to go poof as soon as one poster decided to vent specifically about a high level politician).

It's a shame, as there was a lot of good info on some of those posts.

Very little of substance seems to be allowed to stay on these boards any more, and if that is how the majority of posters prefer then that is working out as it should.

A slow message board though is usually a dying one. Again I find that unfortunate.

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qbetzforreal — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:04:38 GMT

I just bypass posts which I have no interest.

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KKJ — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:11:34 GMT

I agree about the too many threads on a topic--in this case the C-virus, but at least now we aren't bombarded with umpteen thousand threads and posts on Meghan!

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Montana — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:21:03 GMT

@KKJ wrote:
I agree about the too many threads on a topic--in this case the C-virus, but at least now we aren't bombarded with umpteen thousand threads and posts on Meghan!

I stopped reading Meghan and Harry threads long ago. I just walk on by.

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San Antonio Gal — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:51:17 GMT

I agree with those that said to just pass up the thread if it doesn't interest you.