Could I suggest to the Racing Comments mods a possible change in policy, or more accurately a return to the old ways.
I refer to the season long rolling 'topic' threads which now dominate the forum. 'Hamilton vs Rosberg 2014 threads 1-12' etc.
These are not really forum topics in the normal forum sense, they are mini-forums in their own right and I feel them to be exclusionary to newer/occasional members and discouraging of genuinely varied discussions. They tend to devolve into months long conversations between the usual suspects and are extremely circular. What also happens is that when an incident happens or a topic comes up it just becomes part of the whole general ongoing mishmash rather than a separate thread which is easy to see and comment in. A major incident or issue will be on pages 125-126 of a thread where anyone coming back to it will never find it.
Is there some way these epic threads could be discouraged in the future in favour of threads about one thing? Most discussion forums including this one have always consisted of short term threads lasting generally a few days on tightly specified topics. Occasionally a longer lasting thread like 'here are tables updated every race of relative qualifying' or something like that or the caption jokes threads are cool of course.
If people want to discuss a Hamilton/Rosberg incident at the German grand prix 2015 I would say a topic specific thread on the topic which stops once that topic is exhausted would be a good idea.
Shaun