Thanks GTO and StreetLife for your warm welcome. I did go through the board rules and posting policies.
I had some interesting observations on the dynamics of the threads/posts network in TBHP. I am not sure if you all will agree with what I say but this is something I have observed after having a look at this site for some days now.
a) Thread creation/updation --> You log on in the morning on your PC. You start surfing the news sites for getting up to date information. You stump upon some automobile related news. You may quickly log-on to TBHP and create a thread without knowing/realising/searching that there is already an old thread on that topic. Its simple till this point - you might get a couple of responses to your new thread.
Then a gentleman will update the post saying -< I think this is being discussed in another thread also>.
While all this is happening another gentleman who would also have read the same news( but the difference being that he had seen and knows that there is an existing thread on TBHP on this topic ) would come and update the old thread. And suddenly you will have two threads discussing the same topic( although they will still be in different dimension
). Of course this will be followed by merge requests and so on
b) Also the other interesting part is how a thread gets evolved. We start from an interesting thread title/topic. In between the thread some gentleman will say something in his post in context of the topic.
This update shall be interpreted in different ways by different members and a debate will start on this update( sidelining the main thread topic ).
After a few set of updates - a moderator jumps in with an update in
bold saying -
< Please dont be off topic>.
Some posts after that will adhere to this and then the cycle shall repeat itself
c) There are some posts in the threads whose only purpose looks to be the following formula
post count = post count + 1
These will have nothing to add value to the topic being discussed. One attribute of these posts is that these and the
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-svaid
PS --> No offence met to anyone