[Meta] should titration questions get a megathread or is that overkill
Genuinely asking, not complaining: is it time for a weekly titration megathread? Roughly a third of new posts here right now are some version of "is this normal at week X" and the wiki already answers most of them.
Not trying to gatekeep newbies, just wondering if a pinned thread would actually serve people better than 40 separate threads saying the same reassurance.
best — the order this archive was captured in
We've discussed this before and landed against a hard megathread requirement — individual posts get more eyes and more specific reassurance than a thread that scrolls past in a day. But the wiki link should probably be more visible, that part's a fair criticism.
that's a reasonable answer honestly, I hadn't considered the "gets more eyes" side of it
speaking as the mod who answers a lot of these individually: I don't actually mind it. Same question from a new person deserves a fresh, specific answer, not a link to a thread from six months ago that doesn't mention their situation.
this is a genuinely nice way to think about repetitive questions and I say that as someone who gets annoyed by them sometimes
as one of the people asking these questions recently — please don't megathread it, having my own post made me feel like I was allowed to be confused, a buried reply in a giant thread wouldn't have
strong agree, same experience from the other side of the same kind of post
a pinned FAQ would cut the repetition in half though, I don't think "it makes newbies feel welcome" outweighs the actual signal-to-noise problem
the FAQ/wiki does exist and is linked in the sidebar, the question here was specifically about a megathread requirement, which is a different ask. happy to look at making the sidebar link more prominent though, that's a fair separate point.
fair, I conflated the two, more prominent sidebar link would solve most of what I actually care about
read about 4000 of these threads before commenting on any of them, can confirm the individual reassurance genuinely reads different every time even when the content is 90% the same
tl;dr — no forced megathread, wiki link probably needs to be more visible, individual posts stay because they make new people feel like their specific situation matters
slightly off topic but half these threads are also missing the Titration flair when they'd qualify, that would help sorting on its own
sorted by controversial as always: I think the wiki is genuinely bad and that's the actual reason people don't use it instead of asking, not a visibility problem
ok that's actually useful feedback, could you say more in modmail about which section, genuinely want to fix it if it's bad rather than just underlinked