Mitt's lies, topic #1 - 99!

archer wrote: What's up with combining these threads? The conservatives here have been known to start numerous threads about Obama, sometimes filling up the entire first page of new threads and they were not targeted for consolidation. These threads are now virtually unreadable.

While we do not have hard and fast rules about how many topics one poster can start a day, when one member starts 4 threads with almost the identical title within 4 hours it's a form of spamming the board - that one poster is dominating the forum with multiple threads when they could easily go into one thread. We put them together for organizational sake only, it has nothing to do with whether it's "liberal" or "conservative", as we've merged topics before the same way without regard as to whom started them. Each of the threads had 3 or less replies and if you look at the title of each post, it's easy to figure out which post went with each topic as there are very few that are out of order since there were so few replies to each topic.

We asked a while back when LOL pointed out that the Courthouse was becoming dominated by several "drive-by" topics (or topics that had very few replies) if we could get opinions on starting one anti-Obama, one anti-Romney, one pro-Obama, and one pro-Romney thread and all posts and replies relating to the 2 candidates go into those threads in order to make it easy for members and guests to read the forum and cut down on the number of seemingly duplicate topics (we even joked that maybe we should make it a contest to see if the "pro-" threads could beat out the "anti-" threads!). No one responded and we'd love to hear your thoughts. It would only apply to news stories/opinions posted about the candidates; if there are other topics or subject matters to discuss (ie energy, not Obama's policy on energy, but say US energy policy in general, or climate change, or something like bailey bud's topic on the Pakistani girl that was shot), then they would be a separate thread. The election is still almost a month away and it's going to only get more heated so it would be nice to hear your input sooner rather than later on how to organize it. We only want to make posting and reading here an enjoyable experience for everyone, for you to have fun with it, and we'd like to do our best to accommodate your wishes. Thanks!