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Lisaa
Jun Member 2014

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So instead of paying attention in lecture today, something crossed my mind: Should anything be "done" about the Count to 50 thread and its series of threads?

I know for a lot of people it's not an issue worth discussing (Quite frankly I kinda agree), but I do know there are people in the CLF who are very much against the thread. The thread series has existed for 26 versions, which is the second longest thread series on the RSOF , being behind an OSRS clan that's on V29 of their thread. In addition, the Count to 50 series has accumulated over 51,236 posts since its arrival, which is nearly 22% of all posts on CLF .

As it stands, CLF still has V14 floating around in the back of the CLF, which is 12 versions out of date - more than 11,000 posts of Count to 50 threads still lingering,

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest a change, but I'll of course like to put it up to a vote. My proposed change would be to sticky either the current or a new version of Count to 50, then have no more future versions . As it stands, CLF only has 5 stickied threads right now (2 of which are chat lounge threads), so adding 1 more would not cause any issues of "too many stickies." In addition, it never leaves Page 1 anyway , so it wouldn't even effect the number of threads on Page 1. This would also give CLF more space for threads over time, since the old thread versions would gradually die out and not be replaced.

Here's the poll:
http://www.strawpoll.me/12132481

Let me know what you guys think of this change I'm proposing =)
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17-Jan-2017 18:54:45

Scret
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I dont see the point in stickying a spam thread
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17-Jan-2017 21:26:38

Subzero

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I don't see the need for it to exist at all. Does every section really need a count-to-50 thread? It's literally spam.

The only positive effect it has (which is pretty negligible at its best) is that it encourages J-Mods to actually look at the forum section -- which I'd hope happens regularly regardless of their intrinsic need to break your counting streaks.


Mod Shauny began actively posting on the RuneScape forums a couple of days ago so I'm hoping more of the Community management team will follow suit.


Also yes, why do we have two chat lounge threads? Not that it's a huge deal as this section (like the rest of the forums) are reasonably dead anyhow. :P
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17-Jan-2017 21:32:23

Kera
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I dont think stickying it is the right thing to do. As you said, it rarely leaves the first page.

Personally I like posting on it, its something to bring me to check out the posts here anyway, it isn't like we are over run with other more important threads that it is taking up the space of.

If someone doesn't like the thread, don't post on it. But theres no reason to remove it for those of us who do post.
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17-Jan-2017 21:44:22

Scret
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Yea because why post an informative thread, an interesting conversation or maybe a new idea when you can just come and post "48" and leave right? With logic like that no one wonder the forums are inactive. zzzzz
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17-Jan-2017 22:07:25

Lisaa
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Scret said :
I dont see the point in stickying a spam thread
The point is that all the old versions of the Count to 50 that are still on CLF are taking up space that more "worthwhile" threads could be using. If we had a single, permanent (stickied) thread, then over time the old versions of Count to 50 would drift off from the forums, leaving only 1 of them instead of 12.

It'd give the CLF space for more threads, in simple terms.
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18-Jan-2017 00:41:20

Scret
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Lisaa said :
Scret said :
I dont see the point in stickying a spam thread
The point is that all the old versions of the Count to 50 that are still on CLF are taking up space that more "worthwhile" threads could be using. If we had a single, permanent (stickied) thread, then over time the old versions of Count to 50 would drift off from the forums, leaving only 1 of them instead of 12.

It'd give the CLF space for more threads, in simple terms.


Makes absolutely no difference to anything if there are 12 other count to 50 threads on page 30 of the CLF or not.

It doesnt create any extra space as the amount of threads stored remains the same.
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18-Jan-2017 02:02:55

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