Thursday Open Thread Will Be Moved to Friday Open Thread

Given the experiment with the Midweek Midday Open Thread, I thought I'd space things about by moving the Thursday Open Thread to Friday, at least for this week and the next several.

Comments

[Stupid Government Tricks]

It would be interesting to have one every day, and see how the comment counts vary a month later, compared both to first and last weeks and days within a week.

[Mr. Bumble]

Overkill.

[Longtobefree]

Tracking useless statistics is indeed a stupid government trick.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Uhh, no, this is not government.

And it might actually be useful to know which days generate the most traffic. If the Open Threads are useful is for Eugene Volokh to decide.

[John F. Carr]

Where shall I go? What shall I do?

[Longtobefree]

Why not worry about that tomorrow?

[John F. Carr]

It's tomorrow. I was awakened at 3 AM and had nothing to do.

[Brett Bellmore]

So, MWF?

[Voize of Reazon]

It's inevitable that we will ultimately have an open thread every day, if not more than one.

They exist to divert the trolls and poison pen wielders and one-hundred-and-first-rehashers of eternal arguments so they don't pollute the serious threads, but as the proprietor is discovering there is an infinite supply of bilge water on the Internet. No sponge will ever be big enough.

[Mr. Bumble]

Open thread is loaded with comments from "practitioners" and "serious" threads usually have few comments.
Practice what you preach.

[Voize of Reazon]

Open threads win hands-down on quantity, no question.
It has something to do with "infinite supply".

[ducksalad]

The main difference I see is not between open threads and serious threads.

It's between the VC side and the regular Reason side. Over here there's at least some willingness to discuss issues on a case-by-case basis. Over there it mostly consists of immediately doing a binary assignment of partisan loyalties, and then mindlessly supporting every "fact" on your own side and mindlessly denying every "lie" on the other side, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Over here even the worst comments are a notch above the strings of spittle-flecked obscenities and utterly pointless accusations of sockpuppetry that make up the bulk of responses on the Reason Round-Up.

[Mr. Bumble]

Meanwhile newest post goes without a comment.

[Voize of Reazon]

It may be that it is proximity to the Courts of Chaos (the rest of Reason) rather than just "the Internet" that accounts for the bad stuff. My point was more about the function of the open thread posts, that they are the sacrificial anodes protecting the topical threads.

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

Aren't you "Boaf Sidesing" that a bit? That particular social experiment/sewer is almost exclusively inhabited by one side now, and the objectionable behavior you describe is almost exclusively employed by that same side. Truth matters.

[hobie]

But...but...the hillbillies are angry NOW!

[SRG2]

MWF seems reasonable. I don't like going back more than a couple of days on any thread.

[ReaderY]

In other words, we’re moving from 2 to 3 open threads a week.