Page 1 of 1

Renaming or splitting up Off-topic thread?

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:14 pm
by Goliath
I have a question for the moderators. A thread in Off-topic which began with a very specific little bit of news has turned into a very broad discussion of politics of immigration, race, discrimination, extremism etc. This discussion has thus far only attracted two people: Scarred4Life and myself. I think the title has a lot to do with it, which probably leads to people not bothering to check it. This is the thread:

Sweden plans deportation of Christian-convert imam by Disneyphile
http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28176

I would like to draw more people to the thread, but I think it's not gonna happen with this title. So I would want to ask the moderators to do one of these things: either ask Disneyphile if he's okay with changing this thread's title or slit the thread and starting a new thread with the old posts copied, starting with the first one not specific to the old thread's subject.

Could this be done? Thanks in advance.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:19 pm
by Scarred4life
That's an excellent idea, I'd love to hear more people's inputs on the subject. :)

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:37 pm
by Goliath
I'm glad you agree, Scarred, but I'm a bit disappointed that I still haven't gotten a response from a moderator after more than a week. :(

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:18 pm
by Lazario
Did you also E-Mail them?

You can try it. Usually gets me nowhere.

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:53 pm
by pinkrenata
I don't know about the other moderators, but I'm back to my typical crazy schedule so e-mail is the only way you can guarantee hearing back from me in a timely manner.

Thanks! :tink:

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:35 pm
by Disneyphile
I just read this thread, and I'm fine with changing the title to something generic like "Discussion of race, immigration and forced deportation." Several TSA-related threads were merged into a catch-all thread, and that worked out well.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:26 pm
by CJ
Like Renata, the best way to reach me is through e-mail. The likely hood that I will notice a post in Feedback is very slim these days. If I get 5-10 minutes a day to spend on the forums, I am doing good. In fact, this is the first time this year I have had enough time to make a post.

If you need me, send me an e-mail. If you don't hear back from me within 24 hours, that means I didn't get your e-mail, and you should try to private message me instead. I get an average of 200 e-mails sent to my spam box every day, so if your e-mail ends up in the spam folder instead of the inbox, I will never see it. I don't have the time to look through that many e-mails on the off chance there is one e-mail that should not have went there.

Now for the topic on hand, since Disneyphile has no problem changing the title of the thread in question, I changed it to the name he suggested.

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:06 pm
by pinkrenata
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I DID split the two threads. But now I've merged them (or re-merged, as the case may be)!

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:10 pm
by Goliath
Thanks, mods! :)