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MercuryCrest The Severed Head Of A
Great Old One Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Total posts: 753 Location: Floating down the Ganges Age: 33 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 08-03-2013 17:10 Post subject: |
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Poking around today, I found two threads which should likely be merged.
Older Thread: Odd Weather
Current Thread: Weird Weather |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 08-03-2013 17:16 Post subject: |
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Now there's just one great big, Weird Weather, thread.
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 09-03-2013 15:04 Post subject: |
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| Most of those are in 'IHTM', though, which means they are separate, personal recollections, while the others are distinct enough not to warrant merging. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 00:24 Post subject: |
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| WhistlingJack wrote: | | Most of those are in 'IHTM', though, which means they are separate, personal recollections... |
But keeping IHTM posts sacrosanct in this way really goes against the scientific ethos of myself, and, I hope, that of anyone who is not of a fluffy woo-woo disposition.
However can we get a handle on weird stuff if it's all split up into separate little packets? We need to bundle it together so that we can compare stuff - "Ah, the thing that happened to Wossname is very similar to what happened to Thingamajig!"
I suggest we abolish IHTM, and spread the posts throughout the appropriate threads - ghosts, UFOs, monsters, whatever...
Discuss!  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 01:22 Post subject: |
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| Collate! |
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| petrosio Great Old One Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Total posts: 162 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 01:30 Post subject: |
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What's toothpaste got to do with it?  |
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| MercuryCrest The Severed Head Of A
Great Old One Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Total posts: 753 Location: Floating down the Ganges Age: 33 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 06:30 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I suggest we abolish IHTM, and spread the posts throughout the appropriate threads - ghosts, UFOs, monsters, whatever... |
Never!
Honestly, I think IHTM is a very special sort of area. This is a place that we can share things that we have direct experience of. It's a coming-together, of sorts.
In fact, though I've said it before, it bears repeating, for the first couple of years on this forum, I never knew there were other topics besides IHTM.
Combining relevant threads withing IHTM makes sense. If one person has a creepy doll story, someone else probably has one too, and I'd like to read them all in one place. However, if someone posts about Robert The Doll, that certainly deserves a separate, no less equally fascinating, thread in another area. |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 07:29 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: |
I suggest we abolish IHTM, and spread the posts throughout the appropriate threads - ghosts, UFOs, monsters, whatever...
Discuss! |
I suggest we keep IHTM, abolish the Human Condition (so to speak) and redistribute threads in Fortean News which are now 'olds'.
Of course, I have no interest in the hours of dull work this would entail!
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 13:51 Post subject: |
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My point about IHTM is that it has no focus. In fact, many of the stories in other, more focussed threads are "separate, personal recollections", but they are no less valuable or interesting for not being in IHTM!
For instance, many stories in Strange Folk start off by saying something like "Once I saw a man/woman/indeterminate person who...", but it would be foolish to take these out and make them threadlets under IHTM.
All reported stories in the media are about people's experiences, over the whole wide range of possibilities, and not a few improbabilities! Whether people write down their own experiences, or reporters write them down instead, in the end they're all just stories. In my opinion, IHTM is not a useful category, and most of the stories there could go into more defined topic areas. |
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| MercuryCrest The Severed Head Of A
Great Old One Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Total posts: 753 Location: Floating down the Ganges Age: 33 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-03-2013 07:31 Post subject: |
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I stand by my above statement even in the onslaught of outrageous reasoning....  |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 11-03-2013 08:29 Post subject: |
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| Don't do it! Rynner wants to reduce this site to one thread titled 'Everything'. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 11-03-2013 09:41 Post subject: |
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| Monstrosa wrote: | | Don't do it! Rynner wants to reduce this site to one thread titled 'Everything'. |
Curses! My evil master-plan has been revealed!
Actually, it's IHTM that's Everything - everything from lights in the sky to assorted brain farts! As I said before, it has no focus. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 11-03-2013 09:58 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | | Monstrosa wrote: | | Don't do it! Rynner wants to reduce this site to one thread titled 'Everything'. |
Curses! My evil master-plan has been revealed!
Actually, it's IHTM that's Everything - everything from lights in the sky to assorted brain farts! As I said before, it has no focus. |
The focus is, personal anecdotes of brushes with the unusual, or the uncanny. By far, most people's favourite part of the Fortean Times. Whether in the magazine, or on the message board. It's not very scientific, but it is popular.
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
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