Get angry with me, or scold me, or take action against me if you like, but I have an opinion.

A post with a similar topic, or opinion but stated in a different manner is not a duplicate. If you copy and paste a message over and over to the same or different threads, each one of those posts are a duplicate of the original.

To say that a person cannot express their thoughts or feelings in thier own words just because somebody else has already posted their opinion is simply ludicrous. We are not discussing anything on this board of any real importance. We are here for entertainment reasons. It is entertaining to read each others opinions.

I may not feel that my post fits well under a thread that another person has started. While my my opinion may parallel anothers am I really expected to do research to see if I can possibly bury my opinion deep in a thread that I would not even wade through? Sure, we can fit all of our opinions into a handful of threads, but I know I am not alone when I say that I do not care to wade through post after post after post weeding out posts that are weeks old just to find something that is a recent opinion. You are saying that only the first person to have a thought or opinion sould be allowed to start a discussion and everybody else should fit their similar opinion into that post.

Lets look at an example. It has been quite a few weeks since everybody has started hating Zack. At some point there was a first person to post an opinion about Zack. How many posts have their been since that first one expressing an opinion on Zack? Hundreds, maybe thousands (probably not yet)? If we all follow the guideline of posting our Zack opinion under the original Zack opinion thread then you are going to have a HUGE thread to wade through. We are expected to sift through a rediculously long thread, and weed out things that are not up to date or entertaining simply so we do not have too many discussions on this board? Give me a break.

In the proposed admonishment we will have to make our way through many posts in a small number of discussion threads. In the way that is being frowed upon you have to make your way through many more discussions but each discussion has far less posts in it? What is the difference? We are still going through the same number of posts aren't we? It is just the why the discussions are structured that is different.

For example, lets use a small number of 100. Let's say we have 100 posts all on one topic. These posts come in over a 5 week period. If we put all of these posts into one discussion thread we have to weed out all the posts clear from way back 5 weeks ago. While the general topic may be the same, what most of us want to see and discuss is the most recent information. In week 2 I do not want to have to sort out the week 1 stuff. In week 3 I do not want to sort out the week 1 and 2 stuff. In week 4.... you get the point.

If there are more discussions it is easier to weed out the older stuff, and an uninteresting direction in the discussion is allowed to die. If some opinions are not provocative enough to elicit responses then they should be allowed to fade away. Here is an example of that. There have been posters on here commenting on how stupid people from Arizona are being made to look. I started a new discussion called Dictator of Arizona that commented on that subject. It was just another take on a topic already being discussed. I thought it was clever, it did not get much response. By putting it in it's own discussion it was allowed to fade away because it did not elicit enough responses. It has gotten out of the way and allowed better access to more interesting posts. In the proposed way it would not fade away and pull the general quality of the posts down. Having a larger number of discussions allows uninteresting and old posts to fade away as opposed to the option of a limited number of discussion which would keep uninteresting and old posts in the mix.

Either way we are having to deal with 100 posts, having more discussion threads allows the technology to do a little of the weeding out for us, pushing older and uninteresting posts out of the way.

Do not get me wrong, I do not like copy and paste postings. But, I enjoy reading they way people express their opinions. Sure, I have read many posts that have similar opinions, some are somewhat boring, but some are entertaining as hell. Just the expressions used or the tone of the post makes it worth reading even if it is a post that expresses an already expressed opinion.

Another part of what makes this board fun is the community aspect of it. We are coming together like people at a bar and we are having a discussion on a stupid little topic. Would you dare tell a person at a bar that they cannot express an opinion in their own words simply because another person has already expressed that opinion? God I hope not, that would put you in the same catagory as the he/she we all love to hate, Toni.

Another point, not everybody reads every thread, maybe the headline is not eye catching. Some people may be posting what they think is an original opinion being unaware that somebody else has already made a post expressing that opinion, it happens, so what! I know some of you will suggest that a person should spend enough time reading posts before making a post so they do not commit this terrible act. Why? A person is only allowed to express an opinion after meeting some sort of prerequisite?

Do not ruin another board by playing board cop. Like I said before, we are not discussing anything here of any importance, we are here having fun. Don't be a buzz kill just because you feel it is some great inconvienience to read more than one discussion on the same topic.

Enough said.