I find many people actually hate megathreads. They hate moderators telling them they can’t make a new post with their own take as the post. They hate that their comment gets lost in thousands of comments.
On Lemmy, if you look across communities and see redundant threads, then a megathread isn’t an answer. Megathreads are community/sub based. Not platform based.
That all said, I think megathreads do important work. Lemme just isn’t big enough yet, maybe.
I dislike the concept of mega-threads. It has always sounded to me like a way to drown out information instead of allow for easy access to information, and lowers the importance of the individual post in favor of whoever is more popular.
I think a better option, would be enhancing the crosspost or tagging system to be able to categorize posts by a category, and then for “megathreaded” posts you can just assign a tag. A few front ends already allow you to do usually by putting your tags in parenthesis in the title.
I didn’t want to start a discussion about the pros and cons of megathreads, I just wanted to ask whether this is common practice in the Fediverse. That doesn’t seem to be the case - and for good reason, given the decentralized nature of the network. For the sake of simplicity, it would be welcome for some topics, but I’m sure we’ll manage just fine without it.
We could have multiple community megathreads, and then have every mod go into a kind of thunderdome for all of the communities represented. It could be interesting to watch the first few times.
I find many people actually hate megathreads. They hate moderators telling them they can’t make a new post with their own take as the post. They hate that their comment gets lost in thousands of comments.
On Lemmy, if you look across communities and see redundant threads, then a megathread isn’t an answer. Megathreads are community/sub based. Not platform based.
That all said, I think megathreads do important work. Lemme just isn’t big enough yet, maybe.
I dislike the concept of mega-threads. It has always sounded to me like a way to drown out information instead of allow for easy access to information, and lowers the importance of the individual post in favor of whoever is more popular.
I think a better option, would be enhancing the crosspost or tagging system to be able to categorize posts by a category, and then for “megathreaded” posts you can just assign a tag. A few front ends already allow you to do usually by putting your tags in parenthesis in the title.
I didn’t want to start a discussion about the pros and cons of megathreads, I just wanted to ask whether this is common practice in the Fediverse. That doesn’t seem to be the case - and for good reason, given the decentralized nature of the network. For the sake of simplicity, it would be welcome for some topics, but I’m sure we’ll manage just fine without it.
We could have multiple community megathreads, and then have every mod go into a kind of thunderdome for all of the communities represented. It could be interesting to watch the first few times.
Two mods enter, one mod leaves?
Lmao.
It could be a lot more mods entering with one leaving. I don’t know if we’re ready for it, tbh.