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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Apart from the admin time taken making the new threads, unsticking the old ones, sticking the news ones, the other motivator was indeed that people wouldn't need to make sure they subscribed to the new threads to continue getting notifications of new deals.
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A totally valid premise and one to which I wholeheartedly
subscribe 
As for consultation/discussion I've been a forum admin on quite a large UK forum for some years and our philosophy has always been to make changes first (sometimes consulting members, sometimes not) then see what the reaction is. AFAICS there is NO WAY any internet forum can possibly be a democracy: the admins and mods have a big responsibility to decide what's best for the forum (and that DOES mean its members!).
And in almost every case we've had more supporters (for our actions) than detractors - in the rare case we screw it up we apologise, do what the members wanted in the first place (!
) and get on with it. . . .
. . . all of which is a very longwinded way of saying THANKS to admins and mods - you do a great job and in this case objections are at most a minnow in an ocean!! (Mind you, if you
had decided on a new thread I'd have been equally philosophical and written almost the same post
) .