Kaed Posted July 23, 2019 Posted July 23, 2019 (edited) With the way we have things set up on suggestions, they are supposed to be very atomic: the suggestion is supposed to be about a single subject, and we are supposed to remain on topic. And yet I seen many threads where within the first few posts someone links their suggestion thread that is of similar topic, and suddenly the original topic of the thread to gets derailed with this new information and people treat it as if it's part of the topic now. A recent example is the EMT access upgrade thread, which started just by being about EMTs, and has now devolved into a massive bicker-fest about whether janitors deserve their access or not, with the person who actually took on the pr taking it upon himself to include information from the other thread on his PR, and large amounts of people telling them they want him to leave janitor access on. As far as I can tell no one was even talking about janitors until someone cross-posted their old thread Can we just like ban doing this please? Don't cross post threads to get your old suggestion attention and bring back the dead arguments that should have stayed buried. Edited July 23, 2019 by Kaed
Garnascus Posted July 23, 2019 Posted July 23, 2019 56 minutes ago, Kaed said: A recent example is the EMT access upgrade thread, which started just by being about EMTs, and has now devolved into a massive bicker-fest about whether janitors deserve their access or not, This is only because arrow provided a PR in the thread that fulfilled the wishes of the OP but simultaneously removed the access from janitors. So people voiced criticism in that same thread. I feel like this is a specific instance of it being ok.
Skull132 Posted August 24, 2019 Posted August 24, 2019 Edge case, not prone to repeats. Existing rules already require you to remain on-topic. The linking of tangential PRs is fine, because they do still touch the matter under review. +1 dismissal.
Alberyk Posted August 24, 2019 Posted August 24, 2019 As skull pointed out, not really something that is worth adding another forum rule about, since this is already covered by them. +1 dismissal.
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