by justdrew » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:29 pm
maybe making hot-topic threads sticky would help.
for instance, if we'd made one or two wikileak threads and stickied them at the top, this would discourage creation of needless threads and give a place for mods to move things to. As the sticky threads become less hot, they can be unstikied and left to float.
if such threads included say the word "roundup" in the subject, searching and knowing which to revive for old such threads would be easier. searching for: roundup palin Would hopefully bring the omnibus SP thread to light, even if you didn't remember the exact subject line.
aside from that, currently the oldest post on page one of GD is about two days old. Post rate isn't really all that high at this time.
So what I'd say is... there's not really a problem, so let's not "fix" it.
The thing about information overload is, don't depend on technology for a solution, we each need to manage our own attention. No tech solution will ever work, going against unstructured text, with no meaning? No script is ever going to be able to well manage a list of "what you might be interested in" for you. Such can be a nice add-on feature, but depending on such things abrogates your personal responsibility to direct your own attention. How could we be in favor of something like that? Talk about cyborgification!
That said, maybe it would be nice if people could add meta tags to posts/threads, picking from existing tags and/or making new tags as needed. The tags would create a parallel organization of the content and actually enable you to find related threads (because theoretically they'd have the same tag). You'd be able to click on a tag and find other threads/posts with the same tag (or tags).
Also, there is no requirement to read every thread.
if you're really stressed, use the "mark all read" function one day and periodically.
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justdrew on Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:55 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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