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I suspect you’ll create a lot of work for someone.

I do too...namely, myself! 🤣😭 Believe me, I'm just trying to do the will of the...what do you call yourselves again?...ah, yes, "people."

The rule for Movies&TV becomes: “Post about movies, but not those movies”.

Emphasis mine. There's an upside to that: [email protected] would effectively become more TV oriented, more general movie discussion and "less hundreds-of-the-samey-post-about-new-release-X". That, and the databasey template information post format (example 1, example 2), both appeal to my OCD 😁. The downside is, humans being what they are, that idea will quickly turn into corraling cats and that post format would never be followed unless !newreleases has ~~a dictator for a~~ a scrupulous mod like @[email protected] over at [email protected] . Hmmm...maybe a bot account could at least create the properly formatted first post, I'd imagine...but that's beyond my abilities.

And, yes, They Cloned Tyrone would have gone into !newreleases, being exactly that.

As far as the one-fount mini-deluge of posts you speak of, that's of no real concern. As long as the posts are relevant to the community and subject at hand and they "play nice" why would I even want to touch them! That's the kind of participation that makes us happy! 🤗 It pains my icy heart to see virtual tumbleweeds in some of our other communities. But if these posts or the poster becomes a real problem for this instance or a community, I have no problem pressing the shiny red button on them.

Remember: doing absolutely nothing is always an option.

@King Mongoose

...cue the 🤬 PipedBot

The objective is to avoid having someone looking for those threads, as in the original request you linked.

I didn't think people had to look for a Barbie/Oppenheimer/M: I/Asteroid City thread. The real trick was/is avoiding those posts! 🤣 But, hey, I'm still down with the pinned new release thread idea.

Thimking aloud:

• Your suggestion is probably the most friction-free method of handling this.
• When do you suggest they get unpinned? Just for ~~laziness~~ efficiency's sake it'd be easier to set a firm expiration date instead of watching and waiting until the commenting dies down 🕸.
• Which new releases? All of them? I've got (for example) Rotten Tomatoes' 2023 new releases page open (OMG! They've remade The Color Purple? Why??) and some of these I'm not sure are going to be...threadworthy to the general public. Meh...pixels and kilobytes are free, I suppose, as long as someone pays the electric bill.

@King Mongoose