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[deleted] OP t1_j5lrzb3 wrote

Legitimately looking for some input here:

Why is a 'megathread' necessary for George Santos when the topic itself gets relatively few posts? For example, there has only been 1 other post about George Santos in the last 3 days that is still up. That post has only managed to gain around +10 upvotes and 2 comments in the 15 hours it has been up. Outside of that post and this post, the last George Santos-related post which is still up on the subreddit is from last Friday.

Even in /r/LongIsland's Week 4 George Santos 'megathread', there have only been ~50 comments, while the post itself has been up for 11 days (and pinned to the top of the 130,000 member subreddit for 7, I assume), which, when factoring in the number of recent George Santos posts from this subreddit, shows that there isn't really enough for a megathread, in my opinion.

Also, when the topic of crime posts was a big issue in this subreddit, particularly near the election, why were you a large and vocal advocate against creating one? To me, your argument back then was that "there simply isn't [wasn't] enough crime posts to warrant a crime megathread'. Personally, I was also against the crime megathread, but I don't understand your position on why you believe a George Santos is necessary, even though there have been even fewer posts related to him than there were related to crime back when you argued that there "weren't enough posts to warrant a crime megathread".

Again, I'm not trying to start anything here. Rather, I'm trying to understand your position (and anyone else who feels who has a similar position - feel free to jump in here too) on the megathread issue, which I know is rather controversial here considering the survey post alone which you commented in got 100+ comments. Maybe you and others who feel a similar way can help me in realizing what I might be missing here in your position on the topic.

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sneakpeekbot t1_j5ls0l1 wrote

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Grass8989 t1_j5lvgka wrote

There were days in last week where there were 5+ posts a day about him and they all stayed up. There are 3 so far today. It is almost universally agreed that he’s a lunatic and shouldn’t be in office. r/longisland was inundated with posts and felt this was the best way to handle it. The mods created a “crime megathread” for WAY less posts, so it would make sense for there to be one on this topic as well.

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[deleted] OP t1_j5lwsg8 wrote

>There are 3 so far today

One of those posts is the one I mentioned with barely any activity and another is, ironically, from you which you posted after this post

>The mods created a “crime megathread” for WAY less posts

I see where you're coming from with this, but I think it would be a little bit of a stretch to call it "way less posts". The amount of posts themselves are relatively the same, with their being possibly slight more George Santos-related posts.

However, the crime posts, while there were probably fewer of them, consistently reached the front page of this subreddit during 'the election season', with most having dozens, if not over a hundred comments and upvotes, so I think it's fair to say that the crime posts had more engagement then than the George Santos-related posts do now.

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Grass8989 t1_j5lyc74 wrote

I mean they gain a lot of traction and get a lot of comments because quality of life issues and crime directly effect people that live here. If people didn’t care they wouldn’t comment.

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