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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I would frown on the second one but probably wouldn't delete it because it doesn't violate an explicit rule. When moderating a busy forum, you can never have a perfect rule. There will always be cases that fall through the cracks or ways to find loopholes. It is often best to have a really simple rule than to have a complex set of guidelines. In this case, "no link only threads" is easy to understand and easy to moderate.
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Fair enough.  But the Maryland thread technically wasn't a link-only thread.  If adding "Thoughts?" to a link isn't enough to avoid that rule, then the real rule is something like "There needs to be non-trivial content in addition to the link," which is less simple to adjudicate.

Anyway, the point of most posts like this in the Real Estate forum is, "Here's a house.  Let's all discuss what we think of it."  When I post a house in there, I always include a few notes about the house and why it's worth talking about, partly because of the above rule and partly because it helps stimulate discussion.  But really, the main point is to get other people discussing the house, which "Thoughts?" (in combination with the—yes, over the top—thread title, "Great house with A-M-A-Z-I-N-G yard of wonders!  South of H st NE") does reasonably well, IMO. We knew what the OP meant: here's a house, they think it's great, they want to know if we agree.

I'm also curious—is there a point at which there's enough good discussion following a post that it's worth keeping the thread even if the original post itself is just a link?  Or is a thread like that always a candidate for deletion?  I think part of my issue here is that while the original post was borderline at best, so much good discussion was lost when that post was removed.

Anyway, it sounds like the moral for Real Estate forum regulars is "Put your content in the message body, not the subject."[/quote]

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