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## [META] What to do about the weekly threads?
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* Author: u/xamueljones *My arch-enemy is entropy**
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* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/5yy64k/meta_what_to_do_about_the_weekly_threads/
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* Score: 20
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* Created: 2017-03-12T10:53:43
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### Post:
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I have been posting the Sunday Writing Skills Thread since the beginning of January, and after 2 1/2 months of the posting, I wanted to get the subreddit's opinion on what should happen to the thread:
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* Automoderator takes over in posting it
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* Drop the thread entirely
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* I keep posting it and we will decide at a later date what to do with it
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* Merge it with the Wednesday World Building Thread
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* Write-In Other Options
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* Decrease the frequency to a bimonthly or monthly thread
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* Leave it in, but add two more weekly threads so we have something going every single day
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Also, if you think any other weekly threads needs to be modified or dropped, now is the time to air out your concerns.
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### Comments:
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> **u/waylandertheslayer** [+28] (an hour later)
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> I feel like there's not enough content of that type each week for a whole thread based around it, but I'd rather keep it separate from worldbuilding. Could it maybe become a twice-monthly or monthly thread instead?
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>> **u/callmebrotherg** [+6] *now posting as /u/callmesalticidae* (11 hours later)
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>> I, too, would rather keep it separate from Wednesday Worldbuilding.
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>> **u/MagicWeasel** [+5] *Cheela Astronaut* (12 hours later)
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>> I think twice a month would be a great compromise for it. I've been using the thread, but I have to admit that half of the time I'm posting in it for the sake of posting in it, since I want to support the thread's existence. But the other half of the time I actually do have an important question I'd like other peoples' comments on. So I think bimonthly would be a great compromise (better than monthly IMO).
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> **u/xamueljones** [+18] *My arch-enemy is entropy* (a minute later)
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> We currently have five different weekly threads running. Maybe it's time we cut back?
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> I'm all for the merge with the Wednesday thread option.
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>> **u/monkyyy0** [+27] (an hour later)
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>> Alternatively, add 2 more to round out the number
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>> **u/None** [+1] (a day later)
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>> Personally I'm in favor of the merge.
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> **u/ElizabethRobinThales** [+10] *Practically Perfect in Every Way* (8 hours later)
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> I vote for making it monthly, and additionally suggest that the focus of the thread be pivoted away from rationality and towards the act of writing itself.
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> **u/ketura** [+4] *Organizer* (6 hours later)
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> Personally I don't know if writing skills works as a weekly thread. The others are sort of rational-fic-adjacent and a place to funnel various mostly-off-topic posts. "Writing skills" doesn't seem to fit the pattern of "rationality topics", "rational world building", "miscellaneous", "munchkin". I would just as soon eliminate it altogether.
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> As a tangent, I'm also not a huge fan of the munchkin thread being on Saturday. It has much the same utility as the Wednesday thread ("here's an idea, now tell me how it works/doesn't work"), and it cuts the off topic thread short from its pinned position. It only makes sense to me to have a place for idle chatter that's in place over much of the weekend, instead of just Friday. Moving Saturday Munchkin to Sunday is something I would propose (and was about to, before that slot was taken by this new thread).
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> (Full disclosure, I *do* use that thread every week to announce/discuss progress on my game project, so I'm obviously biased in this regard.)
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>> **u/MugaSofer** [+6] (7 hours later)
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>> Surely a pure fiction-writing thread is just as relevant as a pure rationality thread?
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> **u/Gurkenglas** [+3] (43 minutes later)
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> (Unrelated: Anyone know where the Saturday Munchkinry Thread went? I can still find it via my comment history, but not in the /r/rational list.)
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>> **u/ToaKraka** [+7] *https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png* (2 hours later)
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>> Maybe you accidentally pressed the `hide` button on that submission, or changed your Reddit preferences to automatically hide all submissions that you've already upvoted.
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>> **u/xamueljones** [+2] *My arch-enemy is entropy* (54 minutes later)
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>> I can see the thread just fine as the 5th thread from the top of /r/rational. So I'm not sure what's going on, but so far it seems local to you.
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> **u/Anderkent** [+3] (11 hours later)
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> I honestly don't mind the weekly threads even if they don't get much discussion. Perhaps ones that drop to <5 comments can be reconsidered, but the monday / wednesday / friday threads work pretty well IMO
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> **u/Lexabyte** [+1] (6 hours later)
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> Merge all the weekly threads together into a single hyper-thread, the unproductivity of which the world has never seen.
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>> **u/callmebrotherg** [+5] *now posting as /u/callmesalticidae* (11 hours later)
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>> Alternately, turn each of the threads into their own subreddit, accessibly only on that day. /r/rationalmondayrationalitythreaddit and so on.
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>>> **u/RMcD94** [+1] (4 days later)
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>>> You jest but if there wasn't such an imaginary initial cost a complete subreddit would be a much better format for probably all of them, the monthly recommendation thread most obviously
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