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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 18, 2023

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To not clog up top comments, I'm deleting this and and putting it in a new thread which hopefully will be of interest to somebody. Colorado Supreme Court thread

It sez it's deleted and does not show up on the front page.

Yeah, weird. Mod intervention or bug? Definitely a bug in the sense it was not “deleted by user” (me)

Posts don't appear until approved. Though apparently by linking it you did make it available for people kind of?

Anyway, I've approved the post now. It's technically culture war outside the culture war thread, but also you've framed it as a megathread and those are often allowed with culture war rules applied. On reflection I supposed this constitutes something of a loophole if we allow just anyone to post a "megathread" but so long as it doesn't get abused I, at least, am unlikely to do anything about it.

I honestly don't have any problem with people posting their own megathreads. Anything outside the CW thread usually gets significantly less engagement, and if it manages to get more then it's a good a sign as any that a megathread was necessary. It's not the kind of thing that seems susceptible to abuse.

That does raise the problem that some people don't post in megathreads, because they want more eyes on their post. When they are officially sanctioned megathreads it makes sense for the mods to encourage people to use them. But we aren't gonna do that if just anyone posts a megathread.

That was kind of my point. There's a strong enough disincentive to starting your own mega thread outside of situations where you think it's really necessary that I can't see anyone abusing the privilege.