Admin has an animus towards mega-threads, especially recruiting mega-threads and it isn't new.
His playhouse, his rules.
::shrug::
Nobody's making umpteen threads to cover each piece of info.
There ought to be something between mega-threads and umpteen threads covering umpteen pieces of news. I'm sorry I can't explicate a magic thread size solution, but maybe I can shed a little light.
Cordorone is right that the issue is mega-threads. Not sure it's recruiting in particular, although that's been the general topic of most megas (and Collier in Minnesota, with 800 posts and 67,000 views, isn't exactly a shorty).
The problem with mega-threads as I understand it is that they're discouraging to first-time users. This isn't just an adminanimus (come one, come all, get your new words here). It's also the view of professional site analysts.
And maybe recruiting news is what lures a lot of first-timers, so Collier/Minnie can get as long in the tooth as it wishes and no one says "Ye gads, it's a mega-thread hiding in plain sight."
So anyway, the rationale is that more experienced people will know to go to the end of a long thread for current news even if they haven't been following the thread all along, as many of them do.
Newbies on the other hand will just click on the thread, start reading, and find the news, as I put it to another mod, "...discouragingly unfathomable and old."
He (you can guess who) replied "Not only an apt description of many threads, but also an accurate description of many of our posters!"
Like I said, I haven't given it enough thought to suggest how threads can be broken down a bit without falling prey to Occam's Razor, and ideas are welcome.
(Recruiting threads broken down more not only by class but maybe by time of posting?)
This issue is a work in progress. All that's happened so far is Whack-a-Mole on a few of the most overgrown moles.
"Why me?" they cry.
"Because you're too big."
"But how big is too big?"
"You found out when you got whacked."
So now I'm being distracted by wondering if there's a word for an otherwise magnanimous admin with an animus. I'll work on that while you all work on how big is too big. We'll compare notes later.