Skinner: Can we have a new Tab called "Primary Threads" to move catfights out of "Latest Threads?"

[TheBlackAdder]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by NH Ethylene (a host of the 2016 Postmortem forum).

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In the beginning, it was nice to see creative dialog about the Republican and Democratic candidates.


Now, it's just a morass of "My candidate is better than your candidate!" OPs, needing its own playground.


We're generally democrats who are, for the most part, aligned with one candidate or another. Yet, there is this incessant hard-selling in some of the OPs that try to talk smack about other candidates or prop up the poster's candidate. Instead of posting titles that indicate it's a "My candidate is better than yours" OP, they are coming in with "OMG!," "What the heck?," "You're not going to believe this!," and other attention grabbers just to get people to click--only to find it's just a click-bait ad or denigration of one candidate or another.


Can the Primary & Candidate threads be moved into its own special tab to spare the rest of us from this crossfire?


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[tularetom]

1. Didn't they already do that?

As a matter of fact, you're posting in it right now.

Sorry, i'm not seeing the problem here.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. I, like most, view "Latest Threads" and the Primary & Candidate Group's squabbles/hard-sells appear.

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This is the upper tab, where Home, Latest Threads, Greatest Threads, Forums & Groups, etc. reside.


It's getting tiresome to see the devolution of the posts into what looks like playground squabbles.

I'm interested in more relevant things, with regards to politics, not just bickering and oneupmanships.


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[tularetom]

3. They could do that I guess, but if you clicked on "latest threads" like I always do

you would still see the contentious threads that you are objecting to.

I don't believe they want to keep us from ever viewing the latest thread titles.

Unless or until they do what you have asked, a good rule of thumb is avoid the GD rimaries like the plague.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. It's easily achieved, perhaps "Politics Threads" would be a better name.

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The various politics and candidate groups can be assigned to this new tab and blocked from Latest Threads.


That's just it, while there are few dozen heavy political posters, most like other content as well. The political noise drowns them out.


Perhaps it wouldn't be bad if people didn't use one vague attention grabbers to drive a click, masking the objective of the post until a person actually clicks on the link, but since a few here do that, it just becomes an "Oh, another flame article or candidate ad."


Unfortunately, to avoid the GD rimaries, means not using the "Latest Threads" tab, and doing it manual.


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[FSogol]

6. Most people view DU like you do? How do you know that?

I thought most people viewed it like me --- laying in a hammock strung between two Kordofan Giraffes while sipping Pale Ales.

[think]

4. You can go to the link on the left side of the page for General Discussion: Primaries

and on that page choose to trash this forum from the options at the top and use the hide threads option.

You can still visit GD: Primary by using the link on the left but it will no longer show up in latest threads etc.

Not sure if that is close enough to what you'd like to have done but it is an option that exists.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Thanks think. That's a workable solution. It's slightly more cumbersome to navigate though. nt

[Godhumor]

5. Would probably be a good idea to post this to the right forum to begin with

ATA is over that way.

[Chemisse]

9. Locking

This is a question better posed in Ask the Administrators.