VGC's stance on Thread Quality and Enforcement

[JEMC]

vivster said:

JEMC said:
I completely agree with your third point, duplicated threads. There are times in this forum when the same piece of news gets 3 or even 4 threads, just because people don't want to lose 30 seconds to see if someone has already done it or, even worse, because they don't care. Users that do that should be warned and, if they keep making dupe threads, banned. Maybe that way they'll learn.

About thread updates and double posts, I understand what you mean, but sometimes having a second or third post reserved for future updates is better from a reading perspective than having all the info squeezed together in the first post.

This is absolutely fine for mega threads. But I've seen enough threads who have like one video and a paragraph and then in the second post 2 more videos and another paragraph. Why can't that be edited into the first post?

I've refrained from talking about general double posting but that is out of hand as well. I have never seen a forum where things like "tag" posts or simply multiple quotes across multiple posts were a thing. Even now that we have a multi quote button which works surpisingly well.

It's gotten so bad that even I am rampantly double posting wherever I can. First because I know nobody will punish me and second because I have to fill a post quota. This forum has broken me.

If the site wasn't as broken, some of those double posts you mention could be solved. And I'm looking at how difficult is for some users to post a video in the OP, so they put the article in the first post and the video in the second one.

I get what you mean, but the site has to provide the tools to help users in order to keep it clean and make it a better forum, and that hasn't been the case for quite some time.