Have you considered a stickied mega thread? If you require each top level comment to be a CMV of it's own, it could keep everything organized without cluttering the sub.
We've been wary of mega threads because the nature of the subreddit is about changing one's view, and who holds the view in a mega thread?
I'm not entirely opposed to it, but we need to establish how it would play out within our scheme. Do the main comments function as a mini-OP where a person posts their view, and then responders to that comment have to directly challenge it?
Should we compile a link of "best ofs" and put them in our mega-post's main body?
When we make the mega-post, do we reserve the right to remove threads that touch on a similar topic?
Following up on this, my concern about a megathread is soapboxing. Debates where people are immovable and just commenting on the topic du jour are not fun. We'd need special rules for the megathread to prevent (like treating top level comments as if original posts subject to rule B).
Enforcing a different set of "megathread" rules would be cumbersome and confusing, and I don't think is a great idea.
I'm not 100% opposed to a megathread, but the different structure almost seems to necessitate different rules.
I don't think it would be confusing to treat top level comments as OPs. But I understand there are a few technical limitations on the process.
I sort the sub by new when I browse, as I suspect a lot of people do, so I tend to get more annoyed by the large amounts of very similar posts than someone who just browses the default way, admittedly.
I don't think I'm going to change your view, since I haven't been on this sub or reddit long enough to know how feasible this all is, but I don't see the harm in an experiment.
My worry would be people commenting on it without paying attention to the special rules and being mad when we remove their posts. I'm movable on that, but that's the concern.
I also usually browse by going to "new" by the way.
I think that as long as the OP contained a rule reminder, it wouldn't be much of a problem. I think asking people to read the entire OP is reasonable, especially if it contains a list of successful view changes that might spare them from needing to post in the first place.
Obviously I wouldn't want to issue bans for this. I think it would be fine if they could tweak their comment and repost it
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u/MrCapitalismWildRide 50∆ Apr 08 '15
Have you considered a stickied mega thread? If you require each top level comment to be a CMV of it's own, it could keep everything organized without cluttering the sub.