I make a motion

One 'Hello' tread for all newbs, spicoli? Wouldn't that tread thus get insanely long as time passed & thus defeat the purpose of vetting newbs? Just askin

 

Majority of forums do just have one hello thread...

 

Whatever. I never read those extremely long hello treads on other forums. But I read all of the hello treads here.

No worries, entertainment here will pick up for you Emass now that the flat season is about to begin.

 

I kind of like to see people's different styles

 

Exactomundo!! Betty is right on target.
A single hello thread is as useless as a surfer, whom we all know are assholes anyway.

 

i second this motion

 

Okay, warm up that gavel, I'm down

 

I pretty much agree with Betty. It's like sitting around a campfire. Each flame that pops out of the fire is interesting in its own. The fire is ever changing, but you can focus on one element of it or the entirety.

In plain English: I think it would take too long to read an all encompassing hello tread, and no one would keep it organized, and each newbie deserves the chance to make a first impression on his or her own. Just my opinion.

Have a great weekend ya'll. Little windcoppe on its way down here. I'm finishing my hplb paint job today, no matter what! I came up with a simple design -a ying yong symbol combined with a low pressure symbol. Peas and waves!

 

Deep zer... Well a lot of forums have threads and then subthreads underneath the latest postings are or can be still displayed on most recent posts page so in essence it is just like a thread by itself but resides under the hierarchy of a main section... For ex. If I post xxx in southeast section of forum it still displays on recent posts page

 

But doesn't matter much is semantics and forum organization mostly....

 

Since we have a motion on the floor and a second, the floor is open for questions and discussion.

Oddly enough, I was thinking about this the other day. Why does there need to be a new hello thread for each new member intro? It seems to me it would be easier to follow one tread .. just go to the last page, and work backwards. Under the current use case, whenever a hello tread is in the list, one can't help but say, now which thread is this? I suppose if you are on the forum list, you can see who started the particular tread to delineate them.

Since I have been designated judge, I must try to remain impartial in this matter and will attempt to point out the virtues of each approach. So the trade off is one super long "hello tread" vs. continuous hello tread spawning. At the rate we are going, the number of hello treads is approaching Avogadro's number.

As an aside, If this motion passes, maybe Micah can utilize an intern to write a script to retroactively concatenate (merge) all the existing hello treads into one super tread.

Continue on .. the floor is open.

 

Nay, I think for the longetivety and we'll being of the forum hello threads should be individual. Also I believe it to be impossible to enforce these measures with any authority upon the free people of the forum.

I reiterate. Nay.

 

BBP makes a good point considering the antinomian nature of this forum. And pragmatically, enforcing such a decree would likely prove futile.

 

Can we get the single hello thread stuck up at the top of the theads with the site rules and all the other junk ?

 

Good job Cdog!