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Personally, I’m a fan of event based mega threads. I wild much rather a magazine have one big thread of everyone discussing a topic than 3 pages of the same info from different sources all discussing the same event.
For recurring mega threads, it depends on the community. They helped drive discussion in some of the smaller subreddits I was in. But recurring mega threads for medium or large communities just add to the clutter.
I’m hoping kbin doesn’t adopt an algorithm to push specific magazines to the top. Or adopt ad based revenue streams. I tried switching to the Reddit app after losing Apollo and the ads were so aggressive, I couldn’t differentiate the ads from the content.
In questions megathreads, you can literally see identical questions back-to-back (but separated by hours so it's not like someone was typing as the other one came out), or an extremely short blurb at the top says "please read the FAQ", and then people ask questions for the literally #1 item that was covered in the FAQ.
As someone who takes the time to actually write those kinds of content, this is hella annoying, b/c why am I wasting my time & effort when I had no idea that these princes & princesses were there, needing to be waited on hand & foot, personally, every time a thought crosses their mind!?
I mean, there are other thoughts too - people that are neurodivergent or whatever may have a harder time reading, but then... why would me copying & pasting the same answer into the response box help any more than getting someone else to read it out loud to you, plus there are computer programs that do that?
So for questions like in r/Android such as "what should my next phone be?" - yeah, I get why the mods want that in a megathread rather than a real post, especially when that would quickly become like 99% of the sub's content if they did not. Especially when doing that would drive away the very people who answer those questions - so like yeah, you could have the right to ask whatever, whenever, wherever, however you like... but then why would you expect an answer from a sub filled with nothing but that den of noise?
If I'm being too harsh, then please someone explain it to me: I'm listening if there are real counter-arguments? This is just what I've seen, personally with my own two eyes. I even walked away from moderating a sub for exactly this reason - I just couldn't take that flood anymore, especially after writing a FAQ, Guide, TLDR version for the Guide, TLDR version of the TLDR, and then even that (no joke) was condensed into a single sentence at the top - that is all you needed to read to be able to enjoy that particular mobile game (which as the pandemic winded down, seemed to shift its audience from older folks to younger teenagers). But apparently one sentence was still too much, and people continually asked pretty much nothing except "what should my next target be?".
Thus, it just seems like an entitlement issue to me - someone wants personalized help, which they'll get even, but they have to go through the hoops of putting it into a megathread? I mean... am I wrong to think like "cry me a river"?