Our friend @bugduv has mentioned in another thread that he once suggested breaking the massive rolling film thread into monthly threads. Apparently he was told to fuck off at the time of making the original suggestion, but I think it sounds really good, to be honest – I never go in the massive film thread as it’s just too massive.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: The idea is not to have threads that are only for films released that specific month. Just a new thread each month. (End edit.)
This thread is for discussing the format of future film threads on this here social board. Seeing as the new year will soon be upon us, it’s as good an occasion as any.
Monthly seems a bit arbitrary, different release dates and even so people see things at different times. Did you see thingything? Yeah we talked about it in the february thread. Ok.
I guess this could be a solution. I mean, lots of films (and TV shows) get separate threads as it is anyway.
Meanwhile, for the monthly thread thing I for one didn’t really think to limit each thread to films released that month, just what people have seen that month. I do see the arguments against it, but also still think it would make it more accessible for more people.
Personally I like it as it is, allows lots of free form discussion between new things, future releases and old films that people are just discovering. I feel that if we split the thread up much, one or more of those aspects would suffer. So for me I enjoy the chance to have a large group of people that might want to chat with me about Psycho, even though it’s 100 years old, whereas that wouldn’t really have a place in a monthly thread and I wouldn’t make a thread for a classic film that most people have seen, as it’d get little response.
As I said, the way that I personally envisioned it, it wouldn’t be limited to films released that month or anything. Just a new thread for a fresh start each month, kind of.
We CAN start a new board for Film and TV, I’m just not sure if that will resolve much of the problem and it might kill the social board to lose so much traffic.
We can also create a Social subcategory for Film & TV like I did for sport https://community.drownedinsound.com/c/social/Sports
but of course, people rarely bother to make the sports threads (of which there are a also MANY) run in that category so I have to do it manually when I notice.
I think big threads are too big and it’s worthwhile starting new ones after a few 1000 posts. The issue we’ve had so far is I think the film thread is both very generic and is just labelled ‘2017’. Maybe we should just number them and start a new one every time there are 1500 posts or thereabouts, linking back through.
The mods can do that in any case via locking and splitting; people can continue discussions by pasting a link to a post in the old thread into the new one, which will provide the link back. More threads on individual films is probably good too?
