An embarrassment of riches?

I posed a question and some of you have answered it. Thank you.

How can there be too many threads? If no one wanted them there would only be the OP and then they would disappear in an hour!

Perhaps I don't mind because I don't read them all and don't go on any other forums. Yes, I've been on this one a bit more than usual but that is because I have a bad back and haven't been out so much.

I suppose if you go on lots of forums you would start to compare them and find some wanting but if that is the case just choose your favourite/s and stick with it/them.

I feel the same about people who think we should have more controversial threads, start them and see if they run - or not.

Riverwalk perhaps you don't see many because they very quickly disappear!

jane

Ella I don't see too many daft or silly threads. And those that start out 'daft' sometimes run and run! Remember 'Octogenarian sex' ..... the question was badly phrased and had 'troll' written all over it, I thought, but was ultimately a very successful thread!

So many different types of Grans on here - so the more threads the merrier as far as I'm concerned

phoenix I agree, I meant just plain daft comments or silly questions that show the poster hasn't even looked at all the threads already opened.

Do you know jane I hadn't thought of that!

It does seem a bit perverse to start a thread complaining that there are too many threads.....

Ella I think it's ok to start a thread with a real question for advice or help, even though they might die a death quickly, or as soon as the question has been answered. (I did this recently asking for advice on nail products, got the answer, end of thread as far as I'm concerned) but I would agree that there are sometimes too many "opinion" type threads on what might be deemed light topics.

That's not to say there is anything wrong with a bit of froth on here, but a good variety of topics and issues will usually mean that most members will find something of interest.

(Hope this has come across the way I meant it!)

I do exactly the same ga,and I don't have a problem with old posts being resurrected either, but I do wish members wouldn't keep starting new threads with questions which clearly will die a death after a few posts.

I only ever look at the 'Active' threads list and often only get to read the top ten or so, before I need to move myself and get on with whatever I should be doing. So, occasionally I start at the bottom of the 'Active' list, just to see what I may have missed. It works for me!

But don't we need new threads to make the old ones fall of the page!!?

I don't read all the threads, but even scrolling through the titles is taking longer and longer. I agree that it would be helpful to have the name of the original poster and the date.
I will do my bit by not posting any new threads until some of the existing ones have fallen off the page!

greatnan do you think maybe just the time of year when members don't want to be out in the cold and prefer to stay indoors nice and cosy with their PCs chatting to their virtual friends.Oh and enjoying a nice hot

No I don't think so Greatnan, there are still not as many as are on mumsnet. I am another that doesn't read all the threads, mainly the ones on Last Hour.But I am trying to be less of a lurker and put my pennyworth in a bit more,so am reading them more than I used to.

Sorry Phoenix Perhaps I misunderstood. You could never read every post on some of the threads you would be there all day just catching up, by which time it would have either moved on or another 10 posts had been added.

i tend to just skim some of the v....e....r...y l....o....n....g ones!

gillybob sorry, perhaps I didn't explain very well. I don't have a problem with old threads, especially if the original poster has come back to tell us how something turned out.

I think it might be that I will read the OP, then go to the end and add something then suddenly realise that the the thread has "wandered" and my comment isn't relevant! (Yes, I know that if I had read the whole thing it wouldn't happen!)

Never Greatnan!!!

I think it's just newbies feeling their way round befoe they join in.

I can't see the problem in resurrecting an older thread, especially if you missed it the first time around. Sometimes things are not relevant to you at the beginning and you might feel you have something to add later on.

Don't know really, just saying.

I still think it would be useful to show the date the thread was started and by whom along with the title.

I'm sure we have all gone to thread and perhaps added a post and then noticed that it is actually quite an old one.

This was done on another forum of which I was a member and I found it quite useful. There were some members on there whose thread I would always read, and some that I would usually avoid.

I doubt it, Greatnan I think that currently some members with more time on their hands than they might like (and I include myself in that category!) has resulted in a bit of a flurry, particularly of new threads.

Why 'scroll through all the threads'? I just read the title and if it interests me or I think I can make a contribution I read on. If not I just ignore it.

I feel the same about Mumsnet. Can't be bothered to scroll through them.