No, the argument is that I generally prefer individual posts
just for the time-limited freebies offered by official publishers, often in multiple stores, because I find them much more flexible and convenient to skim over in terms of easily spotting an interesting-looking free book if one is only interested picking up the free books.
1. Whether a megathread is dedicated to a particular publisher or genre, it tends to wind up with discussion and off-topic postings which are essentially clutter for people following it just for the freebies (or following it for the bargains, which end up being another form of clutter for the freebie-only people).
IMHO, dedicated individual threads confine follow-up discussion about a freebie to just that thread, so that people can talk about the book without subjecting other people who may not be interested in that particular book to having additional, possibly lengthy, posts to scroll through/give a false impression that a new deal has been posted.
2. And as I have noted, often freebies are repeated/extend for longer than a single month and/or don't fit neatly into a single category for which we have a dedicated subgenre thread available.
But often they are only available for a very limited time, so while it's possible to alleviate the frustration of clicking on something to find that it's no longer free by only checking the last few posts in the thread, it means one can also miss out on a longer-term freebie that's available for the entire month because it appeared earlier than the one that expired after a day.
And people would still have to look over all the posts in a thread just to spot the single thing that might interest them, instead of just looking over what amounts to a list of titles.
I myself find it much simpler and easier to make an individual thread (or a grouped thread for a set of related things like literary short stories) with a suggested genres-this-might-fit-in, which allows people to easily scan over just the title of the thread to see what it is and where it can be gotten without even having to open the thread and read the posts if it's something they don't care for, and from other posters' comments in the overall discussion in the
links I gave, I don't seem to be the only one.
(ETA: Sorry, that actually happened in a completely different thread, and MR members' comments on their view of the usefulness of individual threads for the freebies starts with posts
here and
here and
here and
here.)
For example
[Meteorological Disaster Thriller], can be skipped by people who aren't interested in meteorology, distaster novels, or thrillers, but people who normally wouldn't read thrillers or subscribe to any Thriller thread yet are interested in meteorology in any setting may see something potentially of interest which they might like to try, without having to repeat the same post in multiple genre threads, which I've done before this month for a zombie detective thing written by a noted sci-fi author.
3. And quite frankly, it's a lot more convenient when I or another poster can just bump up an old individual thread with a note of "Free again in store X and Y, but not Z" if it repeats or appears in a new venue instead of copy-pasting the info again into a new post in a megathread (not to mention doing a search for said megathread in the first place if it's not a popular one).
4. The suggestion of the separate subforum for just the freebies is to quarantine the resulting individual freebie threads both to make it easy for people who don't like them to ignore, while enabling people who do to find them more easily.
I apologize for the Ignore function not working to hide threads I started like I thought it would, and will space them out so there aren't more than 2-3 per day while I sort through the backlog of freebies I have yet to post (some of which appear to Canadian-exclusive glitches which may expire at any moment, others of which seem to have remained free for months, and some of which fit no readily available category for any of the potentially-relevant megathreads I've been able to locate).