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Gwreck Mar 31 2007 09:34 AM

I thought the A-P threads were kept on the main board and not moved to the archives until after the season was over? I look and see the A-P Yankees thread, Wifey Watch and Caption This 2007 threads all in the archives already. Strange.

Frayed Knot Mar 31 2007 02:25 PM

Eh, no biggie. Sometimes threads that die of neglect or just run their course maybe weren't meant to live anyway. JMO, but I think we've become too reliant on "All Purpose" threads. They're fine for certain things but also tend to get boring. Not everything that happens to the Yanx needs to go in the same thread, or everything that occurs to every ex-Met needs to be herded into one thread, and so on. There are lots of topics and sub-topics that can stand very nicely on their own and no one should feel shy about starting a new thread if they think it's warranted. The worse part is that somehow this aura got out that there are strict rules at this joint as to how to post and that special permission is needed to start threads. I'd personally prefer too many threads than too few and, as long as folks use common sense, there aren't really any rules around here. Be creative folks.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 01 2007 07:35 AM

This post really should have gone into the All Purpose All Purpose thread.

Johnny Dickshot Apr 01 2007 08:37 AM

I want Wifey Watch back!

Edgy DC Apr 01 2007 11:47 AM

We'll re-launch Wifey Watch, but the one we got started on was retired. The funny thing about A-P threads was that the designation became part of the culture, and people started prefixing "All-Purpose" onto threads that had a single purpose. One danger of them is when they become one-way threads, where people post stuff to add to them but there's no conversation. I'm likely as guilty as any with the Rico Brogna thread.

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2007 07:36 AM

]One danger of them is when they become one-way threads, where people post stuff to add to them but there's no conversation. I'm likely as guilty as any with the Rico Brogna thread The main danger of them is that people stuff everything in them that even remotely relate to the topic. I understand that the original intent A-P threads was either for goofy stuff like 'Wifey Watch' or 'Triple Happiness', or to act as catchalls for tidbits of minutae too trivial to stand on their own (long-ago Met gets elected to city council in Armpit, Georgia, etc). But somehow these things morphed into places where all news about every ex-Met got stuffed and a lot of good topics were lost amid the clutter. We ran into the same thing with the 'Sportswriter' thread last year; simply because a topic was written about in a newspaper doesn't mean it's required to go in that one thread.

metirish Apr 02 2007 07:43 AM

I think what may have contributed to the over use of AP threads was posters(me included) would at times be unsure about starting new threads for a topic,especially when after starting one someone points you towards the AP thread. I think for the most part that doesn't happen anymore.

Edgy DC Apr 02 2007 07:47 AM

Yup. And if an interesting extended or provocative develops out of an all-purpose thread, I'm more than willing to split. Mostly, I like Rico for when I'm doing research on individual Mets.

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2007 08:15 AM

]I think what may have contributed to the over use of AP threads was posters (me included) would at times be unsure about starting new threads for a topic, especially when after starting one someone points you towards the AP thread. Somehow this forum - which has got to be one of the more loosely moderated ones around - acquired a reputation of being just the opposite. And what really drives me nuts is when a topic is brought up and someone else chimes in that they saw the same thing a week ago and wanted to discuss but didn't post anything because they weren't sure where they were supposed to put it. Arrrggghh!

Johnny Dickshot Apr 02 2007 08:21 AM

I should also say that adding modifiers like "all-purpose," "official," etc., onto thread titles began as something of a joke as if to say, "We can't possibly be taking this topic so seriously, can we?"

Edgy DC Apr 02 2007 08:45 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 02 2007 09:08 AM

Yup. Anybody who tells you "That goes in the All-Purpose Yadier Molina's Ass Thread" should be considered, but hardly bowed to.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2007 08:59 AM

Here are the All-Purpose threads that have been archived in the Baseball and Non Baseball forums. Some of them are very narrow in scope, such as "AP Getting Mets and Non-Mets confused, by causal fans thread" and "All Purpose Bitching About School Supply Shopping List" and "All Purpose Pedro's Big Toe Thread" A.P. Discuss SNY Thread Elster88 2006-04-06 386 A.P. It's Friday Thread Elster88 2005-12-02 15 A.P. Mets Classics Thread... Iubitul 2006-07-12 23 All Purpose "They Sold That On eBay?!?" Thread seawolf17 2005-06-22 4 All Purpose "What Were They Thinking?" Thread Rotblatt 2005-09-06 16 All Purpose 2006 Freak Injuries Thread ScarletKnight41 2006-05-01 2 All Purpose Are The Mets Buyers Or Sellers thread. metirish 2005-06-21 9 All Purpose Baseball Card Thread seawolf17 2005-06-07 6 All Purpose Bitching About School Supply Shopping List ScarletKnight41 2005-08-19 50 All Purpose College Football Thread MFS62 2005-09-11 128 All purpose cool nickname/slang/snarky comments thread Iubitul 2005-06-05 4 All Purpose Election Day Thread ScarletKnight41 2005-11-08 26 All purpose HTML Thread Iubitul 2005-06-08 10 All purpose Logo Battle discussion thread Yancy Street Gang 2005-07-01 2 All Purpose Look Who Died 2006 seawolf17 2006-01-06 12 All Purpose Look Who Died Thread. metirish 2005-06-07 559 All Purpose Media Bias Thread Iubitul 2005-11-09 0 All Purpose Mid-Season Trade Speculation Thread Rotblatt 2005-06-09 113 All Purpose Minor Injury Thread Elster88 2005-06-08 0 All Purpose Pedro's Big Toe Thread Centerfield 2005-12-20 31 All Purpose Restaurant Review Thread seawolf17 2005-09-19 3 All Purpose Shea II, A Work In Progress... SteveJRogers 2006-07-26 56 All Purpose Soccer Thread Willets Point 2005-07-20 172 All Purpose Spelling Thread Elster88 2005-12-27 1 All Purpose Strange But True Thread. metirish 2005-07-14 3 All Purpose Theater Thread ScarletKnight41 2005-06-25 86 All Purpose TV Thread seawolf17 2005-06-14 559 All Purpose UMDB Most Wanted Help Thread seawolf17 2005-06-05 12 All Purpose Upcoming Weddings Thread ScarletKnight41 2005-08-29 5 All purpose Use it NOW!!! spin-off thread KC 2005-06-06 12 All Purpose Willie Randolph strategy Thread. metirish 2005-06-06 32 All-purpose - the world is off it's rocker thread KC 2006-02-17 8 All-Purpose "It's Snowing" Thread 2005-2006 Willets Point 2005-10-29 207 All-purpose "webmd" thread ... KC 2007-01-09 13 All-Purpose 2005 40-Man Roster Thread Edgy DC 2005-06-16 2 All-purpose 2005 College World Series Thread KC 2005-06-17 7 All-Purpose 2005 Stretch-Run Thread Edgy DC 2005-09-19 98 All-Purpose 2006 Where Have You Gone... Former Mets Thread mlbaseballtalk 2005-12-31 462 All-purpose baseball card thread (part ll?) KC 2006-01-07 147 All-Purpose Bullpen 2005 Thread Rotblatt 2005-09-03 19 All-Purpose David Wright Gets Some Love Thread Rotblatt 2005-11-04 11 All-purpose Hitler and the Nazis Play Baseball Thread Willets Point 2005-06-27 33 All-Purpose Internal Call-Ups/Promotions Thread Rotblatt 2005-07-11 21 All-Purpose Mets-Related Trade Rumors Thread Rotblatt 2005-07-29 84 All-Purpose Music request... Rockin' Doc 2006-02-08 0 All-Purpose Non-Mets Roster Moves Thread Rotblatt 2005-06-10 16 All-Purpose People Who Are Still Alive Thread Yancy Street Gang 2005-10-15 191 All-Purpose Politics Thread Willets Point 2005-10-28 61 All-Purpose Prospect Update Thread, 2006 Edgy DC 2006-06-05 2 All-Purpose Stupid Rumors Thread Elster88 2006-06-22 17 All-Purpose Temporary Movie Thread Swan Swan H 2005-06-09 16 All-Purpose Trachsel Trade Rumors Thread Rotblatt 2005-08-30 23 All-Purpose Who's Going to The Game Thread soupcan 2005-06-09 65 All-Purpose Why do I still have this? thread KC 2006-01-16 11 AP - That Was a Great Play Thread. metirish 2006-04-16 13 A-P "So You Think You're A Sportswriter" Thread Rotblatt 2005-06-23 471 AP 2006 NBA Playoffs Thread a.k.a The Clippers Do Not Suck A Boy Named Seo 2006-04-19 56 A-P ASG Voting Update 2006 Thread SteveJRogers 2006-05-30 0 A-P CBA Thread, the countdown to 12-19-06 SteveJRogers 2006-07-30 3 A-P Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Etc. Shopping Thread ScarletKnight41 2005-09-25 5 A-P Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Whatever Shopping Thread ScarletKnight41 2005-10-31 12 A-P Fans Acting Badly Thread ScarletKnight41 2006-07-02 4 AP Getting Mets and Non-Mets confused, by causal fans thread mlbaseballtalk 2005-10-22 0 AP Great Plays Thread Iubitul 2006-07-03 9 A-P Minor Rants Spinoff Thread Rotblatt 2005-08-12 7 AP New Year's resolution that i probably won't keep thread Nymr83 2005-12-26 13 AP Olympics Thread DocTee 2006-02-10 90 A-P Oscar Telecast Thread ScarletKnight41 2006-03-05 52 A-P So Ya Think You are a Sports Radio Talk Show Host mlbaseballtalk 2005-10-15 1 AP So you want to be a Broadcaster Thread SteveJRogers 2006-05-22 14 AP Things That Go Together Thread MFS62 2006-06-12 7 A-P Thread for Minor Rants About Posts on Other Fan Boards Rotblatt 2005-08-12 22 A-P Worst Proposed Trade Ever Thread Rotblatt 2005-10-31 28 A-P WTF? Thread Rotblatt 2006-03-23 21 AP: Going to the Game Thread DocTee 2006-04-08 136 AP: Restaurant Thread KC 2006-08-18 33

metirish Apr 02 2007 09:04 AM

We should get the A&P Supermarket to sponsor this place.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 02 2007 09:06 AM

I just noticed this one: All-purpose Hitler and the Nazis Play Baseball Thread

Johnny Dickshot Apr 02 2007 02:21 PM

I had some stuff about Mengele's curveball the other day and had nowhere to put it. Had I only known!

cooby Apr 02 2007 07:01 PM

zAre those all really real? It's even worse than we thought

Rockin' Doc Apr 02 2007 09:36 PM

Is this the All-Purpose Discussion of All-Purpose Threads?

Benjamin Grimm Apr 03 2007 06:12 AM

cooby wrote: Are those all really real? It's even worse than we thought Every one of them is real. They're all in the off-line archives. There are probably a bunch more in the active forums, but I didn't even look at those.

MFS62 Apr 03 2007 05:18 PM

Didn't there used to be some threads starting with "General All Purpose..."? Or did I see those on a different board a few years ago? Later

Willets Point Apr 13 2007 09:33 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I just noticed this one: All-purpose Hitler and the Nazis Play Baseball Thread I totally got reamed for that one.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 13 2007 09:52 AM

I didn't remember it at all: http://www.getalifealready.com/cpf/archives/f1_t367.shtml