To Each Artist His Thread

[Ari Brooks 32]

When you want to post your art (a picture, a song, a story etc.) you go to Octavia's Hall, find the right section, create a topic, name it something like "Fluttershy", post your one picture in there and wait for comments. You get two, three or ten and then, after a week, you forget about it.

 

Next week, you've done another one and guess what? You create a new topic for it and after some time, it is again forgotten.

 

I know a few forums with a simple rule: one thread for one person, not more.

 

Pros

• If someone wants to see all of your art, he clicks on your thread and has everything there.
• You can see yourself improving when you see every piece you've drawn, as well as your 'fans'.
• There are less dead threads.
• You can follow one's thread.

Cons

• You have to search for your own thread (harder when search doesn't work, still solvable via bookmarks).
• It's a new rule (it's a change, and a restriction of some sort).

Some people post a new comment to their thread with the new picture and add it to the first post, making all of their art easy to see and notificating followers.

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

I think something like this is better as a common courtesy than as an enforced rule. Another con to having a one thread per artist rule is that artists who have different categories/themes for their work can't really sort it as well. While I agree that it seems pointless to have so many threads that die relatively quickly, such a rule would be stifling. The only sub-sections of Octavia's Hall where this rule seems most applicable is in the visual art sections. 

 

Without a doubt I would encourage artists to have ongoing threads rather than making a new one for each piece, but at the same time I do not agree it should be an enforced rule.

[SCS 7,537]

I agree with Frith is Magick. Megathreads might work well for some artists while not so much for others, and I feel that making and enforcing an official rule to try to make people use megathreads would be unnecessarily limiting.