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Excessive Thread Merging

roshan

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Recently a thread on RPG music, in GRPD, was merged into a video game music megathread in General Gaming. Now, I posted in that thread because I specifically wanted to discuss RPG music, with RPG fans, on an RPG subforum, in an RPG site. One of the most important aspects of the overall RPG experience is the music and it doesn't make sense that a thread about this ends up merged into a general gaming megathread. And several Codex favourites such as Fallout and Bloodlines are known for their excellent musical scores.

Originally my post got several replies, but now that it has been moved there is nothing new, and when I search through that thread, I am exposed to hundreds of YouTube videos featuring music from sports, FPS, RTS, racing and other genres of games that I have no interest in whatsoever.

At the very least there should be a megathread specifically for RPG music.
 

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It was obviously Jaesun.

OP, unfortunately, this is something that has become commonplace here at RPG Codex and is one of the worst aspects of it now. I'm afraid there's nothing any of us can do about it any further because DU himself was the one who decreed that thread merging should be stopped, about a year ago I think, and since then, even though his attention's been called to incidents like this one, he refuses to do anything about it any more. His words were hollow.

I don't think he cares.

Edit: I would think that at least a pre-moving PM to an oldfag like roshan would have been in order. Tsk tsk.
 
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What the fuck is with the obsession with merging threads in the first place? It should only be done in circumstances like when there's some news and every joe rushes to make a thread about it and we end up with the discussion split in three places.

But it seems we have some human bots doing merging without more consideration than matching content.
 

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Edit: I would think that at least a pre-moving PM to an oldfag like roshan would have been in order. Tsk tsk.

It wasn't my thread. Knowing what forum policies are like, I just necroed an older thread.
 

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SO a thread discussing video game music, was merged with a thread discussing video game music, what is the problem? :M
 

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SO a thread discussing video game music, was merged with a thread discussing video game music, what is the problem? :M

"I specifically wanted to discuss RPG music, with RPG fans, on an RPG subforum, in an RPG site". I have no interest in "video game music". And now all the posts related to RPG music are lost in a huge swathe of posts about FPS and RTS games.

As a mod on an RPG forum, you should understand that there are a lot of people here particularly because they care about RPGs, and are not concerned with the rest of "general gaming".
 

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SO a thread discussing video game music, was merged with a thread discussing video game music, what is the problem? :M
SO a thread about video games was merged with a thread about video games, what's the problem? Better merge all of GRPGD together :M
 

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Getting the strangest feeling of deja vu here... other threads about thread merging notwithstanding, I'm sure this exact thing with the specific music thread being merged into the general music thread has happened before.

Highly redundant. I urge the administration to merge this thread with other threads about merging threads.
 

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Can't wait for the thread splitting thread to be created...

*waits for this post to be split into its own thread*
 

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I'm afraid there's nothing any of us can do about it any further because DU himself was the one who decreed that thread merging should be stopped, about a year ago I think, and since then, even though his attention's been called to incidents like this one, he refuses to do anything about it any more. His words were hollow.

I don't think he cares.
I care.

Just not very deeply.

And mostly more about the drama this type of thing generates.
 

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Either give roshan back his thread or... I suggest merging all the threads about "games suck nowadays" into one big thread too.
 

roshan

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Or why even have separate threads for video game music, black metal, ethnic music, classical, pop, etc? It's all just music, they should all be merged together into a single music megathread.
 

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All feedbacks shd be merged since they're all feedbacks.
 

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All feedbacks shd be merged since they're all feedbacks.

All threads should be merged since they're all threads.

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your proposal is sound root but i think all moderators should just be merged into one megamoderator

i've just finished drawing up twenty different charts on the matter and they all show that the increase in efficiency, mergitivity and join date one liner spamming will be immense
 

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How about a discussion before merging?

Mod announces intention to megathread, both in thread and on site feedback, and if no-one objects, mod gets to megathread.
 

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