Ya know, this is one I hadn't thought of when I had queasy feelings about the rise of the omnibus threads.

I understand the Sooooooo thread in the Lounge is a lot of fun. But it didn't attract my attention till it was 5 pages long and, by then, I didn't feel like jumping in. It grew to a mega-page behemoth, and I know I can read or post in it if I wanted to ... but I just get this feeling that the gist of that ever-changing thread has passed me by.


If people who haven't gotten involved in a thread by page 10 are never going to get involved at page 30, a lot of people around here are going to miss all the political discussion ... and likely all of the movie discussion (what with the rapid ascendency of the Movie Musings thread).


So what's next? Will the LoT devolve to one giant thread per forum? How many more people might be put off by a 78-page thread?

I jump in and out of the Soooo thread- I like it, and it stops redundancy when it comes to the inevitable "I'm Bored" or "Whatcha Doing?" threads. So what if a topic is mentioned elsewhere? If you look over the thread, it's all over the place- no one gets stuck on anything. I think the idea of one consistant thread, especially a relatively naturally occuring one, is kind of cool.

I find some of those threads to be more like natural conversations and ebb and flow and drift. Sometimes you just want to yammer about something and it's not really worth starting a whole thread over.

Plus, then drift isn't a problem. Like talking about thread mechanics in a ding dong the witch is dead thread.

I admit that large threads are intimidating and if I wasn't in on it from the beginning then I typically don't enter it. Too much to catch up on.

But sometimes people just want to post a random thought that isn't worthy of it's own thread.

Surely we don't want a 1000 post limit per thread like another site has?

Omnibus, good analogy.

Listen here, Snarky Snarkenstein :D, I find it against the flow of things on this board to say that one should or shouldn't discuss things in a certain way. No one is saying that one can't start a thread about politics or movies because there are two general threads about those subjects already. I just didn't find it necessary to start a whole thread to say that I watched 'Bringing Up Baby' last night. So I thought, well we should have a Sooo thread for movies.

The Sooo thread, the movies thread and the politics thread are very free flowing and often very casual. Like a lounge.

I tried to steer very clear of saying we "should" this or that. I'm mindful of my -hahahaha- mod status when talking about such things, and the last thing we want to do around here is quash the freeflowingness of the group's marvelousity.

I was just pointing out a potential problem that was raised by Kevy, and which I also feel to some degree ... as - apparently - do others:
On the other hand, scaeagles also had this wise thing to say:
I guess that's the trick then, isn't it? This here thread is a great example of a distinct event that someone deemed threadworthy. I applaud that, but how often will it happen vs. how often someone will not want to tread for the first time into a 28-page thread?


I'm going to see Cars tonight. It's a big, new movie ... Disney related, to boot. But I'm not sure if I'll bother to start a Beatnik thread about it when there's already the All Movies thread over in the Lounge.


Anyways, I's is just sayin'

See, Cars deserves it's own thread. Wathcing Bringing Up Baby may not.

Oh, I don't know.

I jusy went gay all of a sudden!

Why is Asta in that pic? ;)