Forked thread: Meta portion of the "Class Acts" bard thread

[jensun]

Well, a few folks that week in and week out tend to almost be in a race to start a thread for each and every single article on the DDI with nothing more than a post of "It's up!" and a link to WotC's paysite, well it borders on the obnoxious.

It's a handful of posts amongst hundreds, none of which you have to click on. How can that possibly be "obnoxious"?

 

[Umbran]

As an internet phenomenon, "FIRST!" posts are very common... and kinda annoying, honestly.

If you are only interested in being first, then posting merely that the content is up makes sense, but then it's just a "FIRST!". There's nothing actually wrong with doing this. It hurts nobody. But as a practical matter it reminds many of fairly juvenile, one-upsmanship posting patterns they see elsewhere.

It should not be worth announcing if the content is not worth discussing. If you are interested in discussing the content, there is no reason why you can't take the time to post, "It is up, and I thought it was cool because..."

I, for one, would take it as a courtesy if people put at least a little commentary in such posts.

 

[Mark]

As an internet phenomenon, "FIRST!" posts are very common... and kinda annoying, honestly.

Allow me to be the first to agree with that sentiment.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Allow me to be the second.

I agree with the thought that it's nice to have a single thread to discuss the article. However, I also agree with the sentiment that the posts should have some substance to them, and shouldn't just be "first" or "up". If this means there may be a couple of threads on the topic... well, that's why mods can merge threads.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I, for one, would take it as a courtesy if people put at least a little commentary in such posts.

I agree whole-heartedly with this.

I don't find the posts annoying, but I would appreciate it if people were to add just a little commentary to them when they start them.

 

[Nikosandros]

I kind of like the announcements, personally, because (as someone said) they act as the default location for that topic's discussion. Handy.

Exactly, I much prefer to have a specific thread for discussion of each article. Furthermore, I spend very little time browsing WotC site, so for me this threads are useful reminders of when new articles are available. I think that by now, it's very clear that the initial post in those this threads links to pay per view content and they are very easy to ignore... there are countless threads here that hold no interest to me and I just don't open them.

Edit: that said, I agree with those who think that some initial discussion would make those posts much more useful.

 

[aurance]

The thread seems fine to me. It generated some relevant discussion about the article. As well, the original poster contributes thoughts himself a few posts down. Anyway, I prefer individual article discussion. I'll just skip the ones that don't interest me.