Threads should not be limited to 50 pages

This site was so much better before we had to worry about threads getting shut down.

Get a better server if that is the problem.

 

Unless it is a particularly unusual topic that is of extreme to an individual, I do not think anyone actually reads all the posts in a thread with 50 pages. Very few people are willing to spend the time and effort to read it all.

I usually read the first, second, and last page of very long threads- and that is only if the topic is especially interesting. You can make the argument that threads should not be closed, but I think there is not much point even replying to a topic that is more than 3 pages long, unless you really have something important to say.

Perhaps you should also read

http://www.politicalforum.com/forum-help-feedback-etc/197900-slow-slow-slower.html
http://www.politicalforum.com/forum-help-feedback-etc/229880-why-threads-closed-500-posts.html

 

I don't like it because sometimes we will be having a good argument and then the thread gets shut down.

I wasn't talking about sitting down and reading 50 pages at a time per-say.

 

They usually say open a new thread about the same subject though, no?

 

Yeah, I guess sometimes. But it just doesn't feel the same.

 

I can see that, I suppose...

 

The board gets too draggy and slow after 50 pages.. and NOBODY goes back to read 50 pages.

 

We don't need a better server, we are already on one of the best ones. I don't know if this rule will be changed, or whether it will remain for the foreseeable future.