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So, someone posted in painting & modeling today, "What's GWS's ugliest model?" He was promptly (and politely) told that this was a recent thread and should do a search.

Here's the thing. The guy that told him to do a search was wrong, on two fronts. First off, I did a search for it, and I certainly couldn't find it. I tried "worst", ugliest" etc as keywords. The search functionality on DakkaDakka is not perfect, it tends to bring up more noise then signal. Please don't take that poorly, you guys do an incredible job overall and search is a difficult function. So don't take this as a complaint about search.

The second part he was wrong about was that, technically, there was nothing wrong with recreating that thread. I manually went back 10 pages or whatever until I hit November 3rd without finding it. As there have been no posts on it in 30 days, it's not considered Threadcromancy to create this thread. I think this is a problem, in that some topics really don't need to be recreated every 35 days. However, I also see an easy solution.

What do you guys thing about creating a new subforum called Frequently Discussed Topics? I'd like to see mods be able to move a few threads in there, which would then be left open permanently. Members could reply but not create new topics in it.

GWS (and others) best looking model
GWS (and others) worst looking model
How to strip miniatures
Best place to get low prices on minis
How to use resin
Recasting

Then, when one of these commonly posted theads comes up, a mod can drop a link and then lock the thread (in a friendly manner, without prejudice). It would allow members to participate in these sorts of popular discussions without them constantly showing up in their related forums. As an added bonus, the last thread, on recasting, would make any casting discussion or Inquisition type thread offtopic when it occurs!

Just my 2 cents.

This would eliminate people complaining that this was just discussed!!1! (even through the correct response would be not to reply to the thread, obviously that's not what actually happens).

An excellent idea, you could also move the 'imperial armour - optional or opponents consent' type topics in there as well because I see those a lot.

Its not a bad idea. Some contenders would be:

something "The missing two legions" something.

Ultramarines are gay.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Its not a bad idea. Some contenders would be:

something "The missing two legions" something.

Ultramarines are gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

There's something wrong with those threads.

We discussed it in the mod forum for a bit as on the surface it is a decent idea. There are quite a few pitfalls though:
- The forum will be so large and general people will not check it and will still start the repetitive threads again and again, taking lots of moderator effort
- Long threads tend to go OT, and so a forum full of them would take a lot of moderator effort to keep clean.
- It is not really a big problem anyway, most dupe threads like that are started when the older threads would be necromancy if resurrected (and trying to post in them gives a warning of such).
- If someone posts a dupe thread in short time, use the mod alert button to get it locked or just ignore it. New users are going to always come in, ignore searching and rules and just dive in. Locking those infrequent threads is easier than maintaining a whole forum of massive threads and linking to them when required.

hmmm
-Maybe just move the Threads in there?
-maybe relax the OT rule for those thread?
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-Ya, I guess your right. I wonder if locking new user's threads discourages them though? Don't want to turn away new people yet its true that those repetative topics are exaperating for Dakka Veterans

idunno...