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Iran War Megathread (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/world@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 32 points 8 months ago (6 children)

This is a good development (creating a megathread) - good for user engagement and retention here.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Megathreads on Reddit sucked because they were truly mega, but in the olden days of forums and smaller communities you'd get hundreds, maybe thousands of people participating. A kilothread. It's a good chance to get to know people on a username basis and it's a good space to have discussions that would just be too fragmented on separate posts

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think the advantage is that it reads partly as a FAQ, partly as a place to read whatever commentary on the situation people seem to agree with. It's a place where people can discuss and ask questions more generally. Other threads tend to be more about specific breaking news and developments, maybe missing the bigger picture.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Good in theory, bad in practice. Most people won't see new info/comments, and will just read the most upvote ones, which in megathreads end up being weeks, or months old. So they just end up at silencing dissent and a way for mods to control the narrative.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    This is a good development (creating a megathread) -

    It really depends, also a bit of an experiment. There are is a plusside and downside imo. Until now, with 4k- 8k users it wasn't necessariy and most users didn't like it afaik. It creates also some ambiguity for mods & users, as what and how to post , engage and react and so. We'll see how it goes.

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