[Nora]

There may well have been a time lag - but I suspect it is equally likely to have been caused by the different internet routes to the site. A great deal of the 'net has been disrupted lately.

Whether it was a failure to search or a slow refresh, I have been around here long enough to see that FReepers are pretty grown up about rearranging themselves to one main thread. Absent an imminent threat to crash the server, I think a little less "quick on the draw" deletion would serve the forum well.

[TomB]

Absent an imminent threat to crash the server, I think a little less "quick on the draw" deletion would serve the forum well.

So you would rather have 5 threads get multiple replys on them and then get deleted? The whole idea to pulling threads is to keep the discussion centered. I'd hate to spend time composing a reply to a thread that gets deleted on down the line.

Let them do their job.

[Sidebar Moderator]

That does happen when a 'hot' story breaks as in the Daschle threads. We do our best to try to keep the first one posted, the one with the most activity or a sited source as the main thread. In this case, they all came pretty close together. It happens, and we try our best to deal with it. When we make mistakes, we just blame Jim! LOL!