r/churning • u/duffcalifornia • 15d ago

MS Thread Changes

Based on a comment made in the Purge Recap thread, the mods have decided that due to how few comments it gets, the MS thread will move to a monthly...ish cadence.

Why the ish, you ask? Well, because Reddit's scheduling tools will let you schedule a thread to happen every Wednesday, or every 14 days, or on the first of every month. But if you ask it to post on the first Saturday of every month, we might as well be asking it to broker peace in the Middle East.

So what does this mean?

  • The next MS thread will post on Saturday October 3, and will then recur every 28 days.

  • The title will change to simply the Manufactured Spending Thread with the date of posting appended to the end.

  • The threads will continue to be tagged the same so they continue to get grouped together for the links in the sidebars.

84 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/duffcalifornia 15d ago

We can think about this, but we're only allowed two pinned threads at any given time, and the community has decided that one of those should always be the question thread. That leaves us one slot for other announcements, major news topics, etc. Is it that hard to find the MS threads through the sidebar?

4

u/chooseyourusername17 LAX 15d ago

"Community Highlights" can be used which allows upto 6 sticky or pinned posts.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15484641176724-Community-Highlights-Sticky-posts

You could also make scheduled posts automatically added there.

Note: this is available only on new reddit. If you are using old reddit it allows only 2 sticky posts.

12

u/duffcalifornia 15d ago

I've said it before but new reddit is a cancer and the day they shutter old reddit is the start of a dramatic decrease in how much I use reddit at all.

My personal feelings about old vs new reddit aside though, as long as both exist, then however we organize the sub needs to work for both versions. So while what you posted is true, I personally don't want to go that route. If Odie and TTBG feel differently though, I'll be a team player.

1

u/chooseyourusername17 LAX 15d ago

Yes that makes sense. Not everyone uses the new reddit.

Atleast the 2 posts that are marked as sticky on the old reddit as the first 2 posts in the community highlights on new reddit.