Spamming or continuing to post over and over the same message on one or many forums is not and will not be tolerated. You risk being moderated, suspended temporarily and eventually suspended permanently.

There is nothing wrong at all for showing support for your favorite show and finding out what other fans are doing.

Just do it with some tact please.

Thank You.

Well, then, thanks for keeping the boards clean. But, as long as I'm responding to an Admin... can y'all please take a little more time before making the decision to merge threads? It doesn't always make sense.

Thank you, by the way, for deleting yet another one of my threads here on the Journeyman forums since I posted that last message in this thread. Really appreciate it. Makes me feel that my voice means something to have my messages deleted.

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Actually, I am rather sick of my posts being deleted or moved into some other thread here at the Journeyman boards. It seems to me that the mods really, really, really want people who come here to think there is no activity on these boards because the show has been canceled, so they merge threads needlessly. Doing this not only gives the boards the appearance of stagnation, but also stops the original discussion by hiding it from the involved Journeyman fans.

I understand that you don't want people making negative comments about the moderating you are doing. Fine and dandy. But, I'm afraid that I can't sit idly by while you try to stifle our more innocent discussions about a show that we love.

Sadly, I know that this post too will go the way of the dodo.

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I totally agree with you. I really hate that they are continuely putting our posts together because they feel that we are talking about the same thing. First of all their are a few times when they put some of the post together but they were talking about two completely different things. And secondly if we are making a new topic we obviously think that it is important enough to be on the front page of this blog other wise we would have put it somewhere else.

If you really think about it and want to mix our post together the majority of the posts are pertaining to how we are going to save this show, so you could just put all of our posts under the what are you doing to save Journeyman and just get it over with. (Sarcasm)

No need for sarcasm, but you are talking about the same thing - saving the show. We all want to save the show, ergo, that is where those threads belong. If someone posts a new way to save the show, it gets added to the 12 Days of Journeyman thread, which has all the information in one organized place. And all of the threads get merged into the What You Are Doing to Save Journeyman thread. I check the thread daily and post new updates in the 12 Days of Journeyman thread.


Ummm, no it doesn't bring down the numbers. It brings down the number of topics, but the number of posts remains the same. And if you click the handy little box to the left of each topic title, it takes you back to the last post you read on that particular thread, so you aren't scrolling needlessly through page after page to find where you left off. This is how most people catch up on what they've missed. Check out the Help section for more info.

From the Board Rules:


What you need to understand is that yes, we have a crusade to Save the Show, and yes we are all very involved in it, however, there are still people that want to discuss the episodes and the characters. The board does not have to be clogged up with 500 threads on how to save the show - that would be even more counterproductive to our Save the Show campaign. We are keeping everything to make the information readily available in one user-friendly place.

Moderators have beeen instructed that they can (and should) merge similar topics, so please don't panic if you notice that your conversation was merged with another similar one. We're just trying to keep the information as easy to find as possible.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Oh, I understand... if everything being posted were about the same thing, then, sure, it would make sense to have new threads merged. However, when unrelated threads are merged it makes no sense. That is what is really irritating me.

And I stick by what I said about the appearance of stagnation. When unrelated threads are merged and users return to see that there are only 3 or 4 threads on the first page started this month they are more likely to leave without reading or posting.

Recently I started a thread discussing theory and it was merged into an inaccuracies thread. Those threads had nothing in common. After the theory thread was merged into the *inactive* thread on inaccuracies, the discussion stopped. I feel confident saying the thread was inactive even though there are three posts in there dated January before the beginning of "my" merged thread. I'm convinced those three posts were also from a merged thread. Thing is, though, those three posts were properly merged -- the rest wasn't properly merged.

I have had other issues with deleted and merged threads, but that is the one that really bothers me.

^^^That is not what this thread is about. However, nothing stopped you from sending a pm to one or more of the mods stating your case about that particular thread, rather than kvetching about us on the board.

Ah, you are right. My apologies for bringing this injustice into the light of public scrutiny.

Here on the NBC message boards, the numbers don't bear that out. A healthy, robust message board is not measured by the number of threads on its pages, but instead by the amount of activity within the threads. Check out the busiest primetime message boards on this forum, (The Office, Heros), and you'll notice that their post numbers are huge, and their thread numbers are relatively low. That shows that people are finding the topics they want to discuss pretty easily, and then they're talking with each other about them. Win-win.

I for one applaud the mods for keeping the boards clean of spam threads.