Possible Sonics announcement tomorrow

[Midtowner]

My click finger is becoming arthritic.

[Karried]

I need Lasic surgery.

[metro]

Anyhow, let's discuss the new offer for a local Seattle group to purchase the Sonics as well as Seattlites posting and calling Stern's main office number. We should all be showing them OKC's support of the NBA. Anyone know yet the time of the press conference with Bennett today?

[JWil]

I think this belongs in the Sonics thread.

In what way does the length of the Sonics thread inconvenience you?

You're kidding me, right?

Here's my personal take on threads on message boards:

While the Sonics might be the main overall story... there are many winding turns within that subject. I read through that entire Sonics thread once and it spanned months, multiple storylines and evolving debate and chat. How confusing would it be for a person to come to this site for the first time, see that giant thread and try to read it? They'd have to CONSTANTLY frame the time the reference was made and realize it wasn't new right now, even though it's at the top of the thread. I just think it can get amazing confusing.

I LOVE this site, but my biggest beef with it is the insistence that we need to push old threads to the top just because a story from a year ago has an update to it. IMO, at that point, you post a new thread and let the old one fade away. I hate reading some of the longer threads on this site, seeing info, then thinking "wait when was that posted?" and seeing it was back in July or something and it's already invalid. I just wasted time reading that, ya know? That's my point. I've been lucky enough to help friends with BBS websites and I've never been a part of one where old threads continually pop up with new information long spans of time later.

I realize my own post has gone off the rails here, but I was getting tired of the other thread. IT NEEDS TO DIE. lol

ANYWAY...

I'm VERY pleased with the "Sonics to OKC" situation so far. I think things are going in the right direction. Seattle will end up settling for a buyout and that will be that.