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Old 01-08-2018, 05:23 PM   #11 (permalink)
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It's a peeve when somebody digs up a thread say, for example, about Moby, just for the sake of saying "I like Moby!"

It's better just to make a new thread with a re thought out starting post.
Surely this never happens?
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Old 01-08-2018, 05:44 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Sometimes I’ll be listening to something and think damn this is good so I run through the search engine and bump it with a props

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Old 01-08-2018, 06:09 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Thanks for the randomizer, P_S

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It's a peeve when somebody digs up a thread say, for example, about Moby, just for the sake of saying "I like Moby!"

It's better just to make a new thread with a re thought out starting post.
^ Well, if someone wants to post "I like Moby", isn't it better that they bump a thread to do it instead of opening a new thread for that purpose alone? Despite Trollheart's disbelief , I suspect there are threads like that around. How many Moby threads do we need? I would've thought that bumping would save mods the job of merging - or is merging frowned upon too?
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Old 01-08-2018, 09:26 PM   #14 (permalink)
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It's a peeve when somebody digs up a thread say, for example, about Moby, just for the sake of saying "I like Moby!"

It's better just to make a new thread with a re thought out starting post.
Nobody wants multiple Moby threads.
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Old 01-09-2018, 02:06 AM   #15 (permalink)
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So apparently you can pull up a random thread by number.

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ie. http://www.musicbanter.com/showthread.php?t=12345
Not sure what the max thread number is but if you insert a random number after t= that should do the trick.

Random thread #1967

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Old 01-09-2018, 02:22 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 01-09-2018, 04:33 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Thanks to everybody whose contributions have helped to make this game more successful than I had hoped - for one day, at least.

Here's the random thread for day two, which comes from page nine of the Media section, so I hope I'll see you there:

http://www.musicbanter.com/media/754...-industry.html

PS: Thanks for the suggestion, stephen: I'll look at how your method works and maybe connect it to P_S's randomizer, but for the moment, I'm using the technology that I have already mastered, i.e. throwing dice and counting.
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Old 01-09-2018, 04:45 AM   #18 (permalink)
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It's a peeve when somebody digs up a thread say, for example, about Moby, just for the sake of saying "I like Moby!"

It's better just to make a new thread with a re thought out starting post.
As a former mod, I can sympathize with Exo on this. We used to hate it when some Lounge thread in particular would reawaken after ten years and we might have to deal with something controversial again. Something like a James Patterson thread,though, we may not have liked it but we'd probably just roll our eyes.


And, Lisna, merging sometimes isn't as easy as it sounds. You have to determine if the two threads in question really are similar (as in copycats), and if it's worth it when you have to deal with more pressing issues like Spammers for example.


Now back to your regular programming .
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Old 01-10-2018, 05:03 AM   #19 (permalink)
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^ Thanks for the insight into what mods do, which afaik is often overlooked or not entirely understood.

And today's random thread comes from page 8 of the Soul & Funk thread. By coincidence, it's also dedicated to a sixties era star:-

http://www.musicbanter.com/soul-funk...-franklin.html

See you there, I hope!
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^ Well, if someone wants to post "I like Moby", isn't it better that they bump a thread to do it instead of opening a new thread for that purpose alone? Despite Trollheart's disbelief , I suspect there are threads like that around. How many Moby threads do we need? I would've thought that bumping would save mods the job of merging - or is merging frowned upon too?
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Nobody wants multiple Moby threads.
Or indeed, any Moby threads.
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As a former mod, I can sympathize with Exo on this. We used to hate it when some Lounge thread in particular would reawaken after ten years and we might have to deal with something controversial again. Something like a James Patterson thread,though, we may not have liked it but we'd probably just roll our eyes.


And, Lisna, merging sometimes isn't as easy as it sounds. You have to determine if the two threads in question really are similar (as in copycats), and if it's worth it when you have to deal with more pressing issues like Spammers for example.


Now back to your regular programming .
Yeah I think it's really more annoying when they literally have nothing to add to the thread other than "I like [insert artist here]" or "lol" or some other stupid braindead ****. I assume if someone resurrects a thread with a well-thought-out post it doesn't piss the mods off as much as the other way; at least then an old thread might have new life injected into it, as Lisna posits above, rather than just, to continue the heavy-handed analogy, be woken up, shouted at, and then allowed slip back into its coma.
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