Still 11...

= J

My personal view is that if I open a forum and see that the whole of the first page is showing threads with new/unread posts then I'll look at page two to check I've not missed anything. I do that regardless of the specific content of the page one threads. If I notice duplicates I'd usually use RTPTAM. If the mods agree - and think it worth the time and trouble - they'll merge.

Anyhoo, if you make a list of the threads - with names and linked URLs - and point out which are duplicates, I'll ask the Movie mods to comment here. However, I certainly cannot commit them to take any particular action in the forums that they spend some of their free time moderating.

As it happens, looking very quickly at the forum, the IMAX dupe aside, I had trouble seeing more than one or two threads* that might usefully have been merged: it is a big film and there are various aspects that people are choosing to discuss separately. As others have said, the hoo-ha will die down in a few weeks and no doubt normal service will be resumed....

* The Batman Begins v Dark Knight poll question might perhaps have been asked in the review thread. The cameo question perhaps could have been shoe-horned in somewhere else - although I'm not 100% sure where.<font color=blue>
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Edit: during a rare lull in Book Talk I took the time to merge a couple of IMDb-related "TDK" threads and two dealing with guesses re villains for the next film. I've also closed the first Box Office prediction thread, which was getting a little long, and re-labelled another one looking at the same topic as "Part Two".</i></font>

When Star Wars was big we had a temporary sub-forum. I think that's appropriate here, especially since half the posts in any of the given threads are "Stop it with the god-damned Batman threads!"

I think you're confused. Al Gore hadn't even invented the internet yet when Star Wars was big.