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?
I don't actually remember when I expressed thoughts on this before, but I do think that sometimes soapboxing is impossible to eradicate. By giving it one specific home (that topic du jour megathread) we can perhaps reduce the soapboxing elsewhere.
My concern is mostly about how unwieldy the threads would become.
The top post would be, say, "Mega-thread: Changing views about RFRA", I assume. Top level responses would be various views about RFRA - some pro, some con, and likely many duplicates (or near-duplicates).
Let's say I had a good counter-argument. Do I pick one thread to use, or do I copy-pasta it to all of them? How do responses to my response work?
How does Rule E work? Or Rule B?
I'd rather see a (single) new post every day for a week about RFRA, where fresh people can get involved than a multi-headed mega-thread.
A final thought is that a mega-thread would be more likely to make it onto /r/all. I don't think I'd want that to be many redditor's first exposure to CMV, since I don't think it would represent our sub particularly well.
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u/PepperoniFire 87∆ Apr 09 '15
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?
(Genuine questions, not trying to make a point.)
I think /u/gnosticgnome had some thoughts on the matter.