An excellent suggestion was made to concentrate Iran conversation and posting to this mega thread. Please keep as much as you can here so that the main feed isn’t overburdened by Iran news.

  • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    As someone who doesn’t enjoy megathreads, is it just because people don’t want to see multiple articles in their feed? I’ve seen megathreads

    • get abused by mods (mass deletion of anything even loosely related),
    • user engagement is buried (100 comments in 10 different articles is better than just 500 comments in a megathread to me),
    • and it’s harder to see updates/new happenings without constantly checking back in for edits.

    Mod megathread’s also seems like an overreach of moderator’s role. They are now in the driver seat of a pinned, mega popular post and it goes to their head (I’ve been in communities before where they just start blanketing megathreads for anything that’s gaining traction and squash even legitimate posts). They now also have added workload onto themselves by having to curate even further what gets posted at their discretion (and competing with their own post).