Detonator's argument above ("This isn't your personal blog," etc.) implies that most of the problem with megathreads is that the people posting in them are either too vain or too terrible to write in a way that facilitates discussion, and suggests that if you want to write that way, you should post that shit on your blog.
Similarly:
It feels kind of silly to start a new thread just because I wanted to post two images and two sentences in the hope that somebody else is playing or wants to talk about it, but Kazz closed the "babble about a game you're [about to start] playing" thread, so this sort of exploratory poking doesn't really have anywhere else to go.
This makes me feel 1000% good about Kazz closing the thread because I know I would have to be digging through that awful thread for a messy threadsplit in a few days if you had put it there.
People should not ever feel silly about posting a new thread about a brand new game.
I appreciate that you think I should feel other than the way that I do,
but that doesn't actually change how I feel. I look at
topics like these and it makes me hate making new threads.
I do anyway, and the results are kind of pathetic, because even if you put a lot of effort into making an engaging, discussion-provoking post, it's not obvious what's going to spark a big discussion and what isn't.
I'm not opposed to this policy because it makes me feel like a terrible poster, though: I'm opposed to it because I
actually like reading
big dumb dump threads. I like not knowing what I'm going to be reading about, I like reading opinions people are voicing without worrying whether they're inviting a response by voicing them, and I don't want to have to read a dozen different topics (much less a dozen different
blogs) in order to get the same content. There are a lot of games and topics I
wouldn't bother reading about if they weren't presented as part of a catch-all topic.
Yyler's point about this being "less organized" and "discouraging" is kind of like complaining that zebra-print pants are somehow tacky and cheap by comparison to a tiger-striped jacket: it's one kind of chaos or discouragement for another. This criterion strikes me as really arbitrary.
AAAAND THREE NEW REPLIES show that I'm reiterating Shinra's point above for no reason. Whatever.