Current Events > /r/fitness is the perfect example of what happens to forums with too many rules

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Daily Simply Questions. Rant Wednesday. Victory Sunday. Repeat.

They've come up with a rule for literally every conceivable topic of conversation, so now all that happens is recurring daily threads. Even within the recurring threads, usually the answer to a question is "read the sidebar".

Is this better? I don't think this is better.

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I still see individual topics in there, and it makes sense for a board with heavy traffic, made mostly of people asking very things, to round up simple questions into single threads. Else you have a forum with a lot of the same topic.

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Its a fitness forum, Im sure they got it worked out

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R1masher posted...

Its a fitness forum, Im sure they got it worked out

I'm trying not to smile at that.

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Agreed. And the rare few that arent daily threads will just be a repost of the top 5 posts of all time, fishing for karma. And its ok because the last time it was posted was 2 months ago and some people might not have seen it yet

Guide posted...

I still see individual topics in there, and it makes sense for a board with heavy traffic, made mostly of people asking very things, to round up simple questions into single threads. Else you have a forum with a lot of the same topic.

I understand that but it gets super sterile. When the principle is "no reposts" or no previously asked question on a forum you basically shut down all conversation completely.

I follow some other fitness subs that have better communities, but perhaps not as good resources for info.

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