this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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I agree with others that the concept of "mega threads" are fundamentally broken and not something I'm interested in carrying over from Reddit.
This is a place for discussion where users vote to decide what rises or stays obscure. Let the system work how it is designed. If there are too many posts about a particular topic, it's either extremely relevant at the time or there are other moderation rules that could be considered to make sure low-effort posts are not dominating more substantial posts.
I agree. Even when the megathread included a list of posts relevant to a topic, whatever nuance was there gets lost in the grand comment thread. We really need a tagging and filtering system so that users can opt out of topics.
That way, it's not incumbent on mods to make a Megathread, or make a judgement call on whether there are too many posts on any one topic.