I guess that to please Joe we'd have to agree that caption threads, obits, and news clips should all be posted only in the MOAB thread?

The only "saving" I can see there is that only the dozen or so fruit-loops who continue to post there would see them, and of course the 'cat would die (or appear to) repeatedly every time a couple of people accidentally clicked to load the whole thing instead of paging it.

That would, maybe, reduce the number of posts per day - especially while the 'cat looks like it died because of the 20 minute downloads - but I'm at a loss to see how the number of threads that our mudelfs need to watch is significantly affected by the fairly small number of new threads created on a given day.

Maybe Joe could explain what "extra work" is created by an "extra thread" in the data base, so we can understand why we should try harder to limit the number of new threads?

John