I notice that the general rule in the forums, when someone posts another thread and doesnt see there’s already that thread, theirs gets locked

What I’m suggesting, the thread with more detail, better, and cleaner stays. If the other thread just says “So yeah just say this and this” but another has a lot of text, all clean and sort out, understandable, it would stay whilst the other gets locked

But, if both threads are around as long as the other, the one made first will live while the newest will be locked. Or, if the first thread already had a LOT of posts and was way more popular, the newer one would be the one to get locked

/support
/half support
/no support

~Recommend me how to make this idea better xP I forgot half of what I was going to type

griffincraft a dit :

But, if both threads are around as long as the other, the one made first will live while the newest will be locked. Or, if the first thread already had a LOT of posts and was way more popular, the newer one would be the one to get locked

this already happens

griffincraft a dit :

What I’m suggesting, the thread with more detail, better, and cleaner stays. If the other thread just says “So yeah just say this and this” but another has a lot of text, all clean and sort out, understandable, it would stay whilst the other gets locked

as long as they convey the same idea i don't see why it should better if the one with "more detail" stays around or not? like i get what youre trying to say but there's no sense in locking a thread around since 2012 because someone waltzed in with more info on theirs

Unmei a dit :

griffincraft a dit :VoirMasquer

What I’m suggesting, the thread with more detail, better, and cleaner stays. If the other thread just says “So yeah just say this and this” but another has a lot of text, all clean and sort out, understandable, it would stay whilst the other gets locked

as long as they convey the same idea i don't see why it should better if the one with "more detail" stays around or not? like i get what youre trying to say but there's no sense in locking a thread around since 2012 because someone waltzed in with more info on theirs

I meant, if one is just simple and isnt as understandable as the newer one with examples or something else, the older one would be locked and be replaced with the better one

if one isn't understandable they'd lock it though.

Unmei a dit :

if one isn't understandable they'd lock it though.

I mean if one is less understandable than the other xP even a bit or so :P

can you link some examples of these "less understandable" threads you think could be replaced with better?

It really varies on which thread stays and which thread gets locked.
If you had two duplicate(?) threads that have existed for a long time, The one with the most posts, or the one with the better OP stays, depending on the contents on the thread. The sentinel can also merge the OPs together and keep the most recent one or the one with the most posts.

If a new thread gets created with more ("better") information, it'll typically get locked being a duplicate. Generally the OP of the older thread would be decent enough? Again, it all really depends on the situation. If the OP of the older thread needed more information, then a sentinel can edit that post to what is needed there.

I think I'm just rambling now, but it's typically up to the sentinels on what gets locked and which thread stays.

I believe if a thread had enough information in the OP to stay around before a duplicate was made, I don't think replacing it with 'more complex' threads would be necessary, mostly when the thread is considered active and has some replies already. If this was allowed, people would be free to recreate any topic and request the old one to be locked just because theirs includes more information. It'd make the forums a bit less organized and the old topics full of feedback and replies would be thrown away. Also, I can't imagine people would appreciate if they made threads and they got locked months later because someone included 'more sentences' in their new thread version.
If a thread is not understandable, it is locked. I don't believe sentinels would keep any barely understandable threads just laying around.

I dont think this would be alright.. i mean it would be unfair for people to be forced to write better, some people dont have that much time, and it would be perfectly informational like this:

Short for.. Curved ground:
The curved ground, you can have any ground you want for a curved ground, it can be used in many different ways and lets say you pick a curved ground, you pick wood, slide down the wood and get to the cheese? /support /nosupport < See? thats perfectly informational to me. sure a couple of pictures would do it, but still. shouldn't force people to write better ones when theyre perfectly fine, and that would eliminate the whole purpuse of the fourms, witch is to be creative.

You'll find that the more detailed suggestions become, the less likely they are to be precisely the same. People agree on general ideas, but often not in the details of execution.

I don't really care for thread or idea ownership and I would like for the better threads to stay in favor of the older ones. However, they're never totally the same and in that sense the newer OP might just be a valuable addition to an already existing thread. My preference then would be to either merge threads (not really possible atm) or to copy the new OP into the existing discussion, after which the new thread can be locked.