[ImperceptibleNinja]

I appreciate that a lot of people in the Fashion and Beauty subforum seek advice on what to wear and how to wear it, but I feel that the 'Mighty BIG Opinion Thread' thread has the following problems that are preventing posters from fully benefiting from all the advice available to them:

- Little threads get added to this big thread, getting scattered throughout it, and often making the original question hard to find, so people don't bother responding. This can also swamp individual questions in the bigger thread.

- People get no say in the kind of questions they're being exposed to. I'm subscribed to the thread, and get tired of seeing stuff I have no interest in. This deters me from finding posts that I can reply usefully to.

- When you do find something that interests you, it's very hard to follow the topic through a sea of irrelevant posts.

- There's one old poll. Can other people add polls?

The request that people quote what they respond to is a good idea, and if that is successful, then I'm quite happy with that. However, I expect this notion is going to get lost amidst several thousand posts, and the thread will return to its previous state.

My questions:
Would people consider a subforum of F&B catering for the kind of threads that are currently being amassed into the one big thread? I feel it would give everyone a better chance at asking and answering questions, and it would be easier to search for older topics, and to read through them.

If that is not an option, are there any ways of improving the current situation? I appreciate that clogging up the entire F&B forum with these threads would probably not be beneficial overall.

Edit: I'm talking about this thread. Sorry if not linking that before caused any confusion.

[*sparkles*]

Definitely would be good if it changed... in my opinion it is too wide a topic and nobody is ever going to bother looking back to topics even a few days ago. Everything gets muddled up, it's just confusing!!

[chernij]

I don't think it needs changing. Yes it is hard to go through, but as long as people quote you, you can follow on the conversation. But thinking about it, how would all the current posts be moved? Allow people to make a new threads, for the admins to merge into?

[ImperceptibleNinja]

Originally Posted by chernij

I don't think it needs changing. Yes it is hard to go through, but as long as people quote you, you can follow on the conversation. But thinking about it, how would all the current posts be moved? Allow people to make a new threads, for the admins to merge into?

If the quoting things works out, I think it could be quite good. I'm just dubious about how long this will last, especially as more people join the thread.

I'm not sure how all the current posts would be moved. Maybe you can 'pick out' threads that you merged before, perhaps not.

Admittedly, it would be a lot of work to untangle the current thread, but I think that characteristic is representative of a lot of its faults, and leaving it longer won't improve the situation. I'm hoping that, by posting in here, someone will be able to answer some of the questions I've got.

[chernij]

Originally Posted by ImperceptibleNinja

If the quoting things works out, I think it could be quite good. I'm just dubious about how long this will last, especially as more people join the thread.

I'm not sure how all the current posts would be moved. Maybe you can 'pick out' threads that you merged before, perhaps not.

Admittedly, it would be a lot of work to untangle the current thread, but I think that characteristic is representative of a lot of its faults, and leaving it longer won't improve the situation. I'm hoping that, by posting in here, someone will be able to answer some of the questions I've got.

I have to say, you have changed my mind about the issue.
Good point though; leaving it longer would kill it even more.

[Zebrastripes]

I find that whenever i post there, it never really gets answers, or maybe by one person. But if you start your own thread, you get more answers. Because of this a sub forum would be a good idea.

If not, quoting would work. And if all questions were written in bold, so it is easy to distinguish from answers.

It's very frustrating, as i know i hardly look in there unless i need something myselt, whereas if it is a seperate post, then i look.

[Impossible princess]

It definitely needs improving. It's impossible to navigate around the different questions in such a huge thread, especially when new threads get moved into it I just get completely lost! You can't really keep a discussion going.
I didn't see the problem with there being so many opinion threads before anyway. I think that people got more opinions and answers to their questions that way. Yes, there were a lot of opinion threads, but opinion is a big deal in fashion!

[ImperceptibleNinja]

Originally Posted by ladydeborah

I find that whenever i post there, it never really gets answers, or maybe by one person. But if you start your own thread, you get more answers. Because of this a sub forum would be a good idea.

If not, quoting would work. And if all questions were written in bold, so it is easy to distinguish from answers.

It's very frustrating, as i know i hardly look in there unless i need something myselt, whereas if it is a seperate post, then i look.

That's a good idea, and could be very successful if everyone did it. However, I think it would share the same problems as getting everyone to quote: people will forget, and some people won't know how to do it, and eventually the thread will end up just like it was at the beginning.

[Bubblebee]

I've always felt this and barely use F&B anyway. The fact is people come to tsr and post threads in order to get a bespoke answer, not to have their question lost in the masses in a giant thread. I know someone will say 'but the questions get lost anyway as they move further down the page' it's not the point, f&b is a fairly slow moving forum and any new thread is likely to stay there for at least a day and a half, more than enough time to get answers whereas if it were posted in one of the huge stickies it might be two or three pages back and buried with spam in the same ammount of time.

I say do away with the 'big' threads and get some individualism going in there again.

[jenren22]

I say yes it does need changing, for all the reasons stated.