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The discussion centers on the need for better organization within the Slow/Ultra Slow Motion thread to prevent it from becoming unwieldy, similar to the issues faced by the Member Photo thread. Suggestions include consolidating links into a single post or two to streamline access. There is a debate about the feasibility of editing the first post and deleting consolidated posts while maintaining comment visibility. Some members express concern about losing a linear thread layout but acknowledge that organization may justify the tradeoff. Overall, the conversation emphasizes the importance of maintaining order in long-lived threads for user convenience.
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This thread may fall victim to the same fate as the Member Photo thread did. It is now being cleaned up by Mentors and members, thanks, Evo, MM, and anyone else who I may have missed by mistake.

To keep this from happening here how about this, give me permission to edit the first post, and to delete posts that have been consolidated there ? If anyone has a better idea, I am all ears. The idea being to keep things organized. Is it even possible given the tools built into the forum ? Comments on the posts would remain under the post at the top, there is a downside to this because you will not have a true linear thread layout, but in the interest of being organized, the tradeoff may be worth it.

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rhody said:
This thread may fall victim to the same fate as the Member Photo thread did. It is now being cleaned up by Mentors and members, thanks, Evo, MM, and anyone else who I may have missed by mistake.
No, we added pictures to the alphabetized thread, there is nothing wrong with the member photo thread and nothing is being done to it.
 
Evo said:
No, we added pictures to the alphabetized thread, there is nothing wrong with the member photo thread and nothing is being done to it.
Evo,

I understand, maybe I wasn't clear, if the slow motion thread has a long life and I hope it does, at some point it may become unwieldy. I thought it would be nice to have all the links in a single post or two.

My runway thread is a prime example that needs this treatment. There are probably one hundred or more links that could be organized into a single post. I don't mind doing it someday, and if you or another mentor would be so kind as to move it to be the first in the post order I would say the problem is solved, with little effort on your part. Does that work ?

Rhody...
 
rhody said:
Evo,

I understand, maybe I wasn't clear, if the slow motion thread has a long life and I hope it does, at some point it may become unwieldy. I thought it would be nice to have all the links in a single post or two.

My runway thread is a prime example that needs this treatment. There are probably one hundred or more links that could be organized into a single post. I don't mind doing it someday, and if you or another mentor would be so kind as to move it to be the first in the post order I would say the problem is solved, with little effort on your part. Does that work ?

Rhody...
No, we don't do that, take a look at the best songs thread, the caption competition thread, the youtube classic videos thread, etc...
 
Am I missing something here.. that thread has 12 posts? I think it's safe to leave it for now; people can read through a thread of several pages if they are interested.
 
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