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BunzHoles

BunzHoles

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I can't be the only one who has been bothered by this?

A thread gets created for a topic.. the front page has the same topic.. discussion goes on in the "comments" of the front page as well as the forum thread.. confusing, not sure where I left my comment.. sometimes the front page comment thread stays alive longer than the thread or visa-versa.

Dilutes everything IMO.
 
BunzHoles said:
I can't be the only one who has been bothered by this?

A thread gets created for a topic.. the front page has the same topic.. discussion goes on in the "comments" of the front page as well as the forum thread.. confusing, not sure where I left my comment.. sometimes the front page comment thread stays alive longer than the thread or visa-versa.

Dilutes everything IMO.
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I think they should maybe sticky and lock the front page news(when talking about games that have threads) with a link to the appropriate thread to dicuss.
 
BunzHoles said:
I can't be the only one who has been bothered by this?

A thread gets created for a topic.. the front page has the same topic.. discussion goes on in the "comments" of the front page as well as the forum thread.. confusing, not sure where I left my comment.. sometimes the front page comment thread stays alive longer than the thread or visa-versa.

Dilutes everything IMO.
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Didn't they fix this "issue"? Now forum posts are directly linked to front page content. Back when there was a separate forum just for front page stuff it was a problem, but that doesn't exist anymore.
 
There are articles and there are the "official" threads. Single posts can't be promoted as articles. Everything now shows up in the according forum. There may be overlap from time to time but there's really no other way to have an article about say, the Battlefield 4 demo going public, without having a separate thread about it.
 
Plainview said:
There are articles and there are the "official" threads. Single posts can't be promoted as articles. Everything now shows up in the according forum. There may be overlap from time to time but there's really no other way to have an article about say, the Battlefield 4 demo going public, without having a separate thread about it.
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Can't you disable the thread creation/article comments?

Maybe it's not an issue for most people.. but I find this place confusing now. Conversations are too disjointed and spread across too many threads.

Where do I talk about Steam Machines here? The original thread? One of the 2-3 "news" items on Steam Machines?

Answer: None of them.. I'm demotivated.
 
I can disable commenting on articles but then you think the articles should just point to the general game thread?
 
I dunno.. totally up to you obviously.. just expressing my perspective.

If you have 3 news stories on Steam Machines in a week for instance, seems like they all should just link to the Steam Machines thread. Obviously not as automatic as the current system, but I think my complaint is understandable.

Perhaps it's not that big of a deal as long as you guys are "promoting" threads that come first.. and perhaps this place is "big enough" to have a separate discussion for every news topic... but it can get fairly disjointed at times.
 
You guys have definitely cleaned it up a little bit which I hadn't noticed.

Last week there was literally just outright duplicates going on.. news story that was the same as a separate thread someone else had created.

Meh.. perhaps it's a non issue and I'm just being a mamby pamby.
 
I'm not dismissing your suggestions and any suggestion people make I take into account. What I usually do is check and see if there's already a thread made. If there is I PM the person and ask if I can edit their post to make it more suitable for the front page and then I promote that.

Steam was a weird issue as three different stories came out one after another. It was back when the news stories were separate from the rest of the forum. Per your suggestion, I'm now putting all the news stories in the appropriate forum.
 
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