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MERGING NASA THREADS

juggalo9er — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:25:38 GMT

ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

d170 — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:34:09 GMT

I had to sign in just to give you a kudos. Sorry for the immaturity but, I totally agree with you b

@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:46:59 GMT

@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....

The difference is timeframe. Yes, many (many many) threads are repeated here, apart from Amex we have the Cap One EO email favorite. Basically looks like there are a small number of possible questions here!

But with Nasa, lots of threads created in a few days, really crowding out most other things (the first two pages in my display were about 50% Nasa-related). Citi Double Cash spawned a whole lot of posts, but mainly in one thread.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

bigDEElight — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:06:00 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....
The difference is timeframe. Yes, many (many many) threads are repeated here, apart from Amex we have the Cap One EO email favorite. Basically looks like there are a small number of possible questions here!

But with Nasa, lots of threads created in a few days, really crowding out most other things (the first two pages in my display were about 50% Nasa-related). Citi Double Cash spawned a whole lot of posts, but mainly in one thread.

Precisely. It's the timeframe and deluge of threads that causes the annoyance on the forums. Especially when half of the threads are "what's happening with NASA" and the others are "I applied, it said this, now what?" when both questions could be answered if people read the other threads first. Unfortunately, in pandemonium, everyone wants their message to be seen/read/replied to so they create new threads...which causes even more issues.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:27:22 GMT

One other thing about merging threads, as a reader you may have posted the info I needed but there were several threads and I did not get to read your post and either moved on or started another thread on the same subject.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

Revelate — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:36:41 GMT

I'd be the first to admit that moderators blow it sometimes, but Lexie was spot on with this one. Wish I'd had the presense of mind to think of doing that: I was leaving them everywhere hoping that people would get the point and stop posting more... unfortunately that was a bad theory as it only reached the people who were already posting in the current threads anyway (see, moderator blowing it). Live and learn, and it got addressed, and it's a trick I'll personally steal if we get a similar circumstance in the future.

The visual difference is night and day even on a browser, and I imagine it would've had more impact on a mobile device.

If you have a better way of addressing it in the future, we'd be happy to hear about it. As correctly mentioned by others, the Citi Diamond, Duck/Beaver cards, and the other iterations were usually confined to a few threads and we did create the Amex 3X CLI thread which solved a lot of the older Amex spam issues but I haven't been paying attention to see if it's still effective or not. For that matter we're always willing to accept feedback to improve the forums.

If NASA isn't simply FOTM after we reach some steady state with the post volume, it'd be a perfect candidate for a more FAQ-style post if anyone wishes to take it on; however, that takes time to do well, and that is a luxury we didn't have yesterday.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

patrick00032001 — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:55:32 GMT

I consider myself the "new kid in town" so to speak, so I tread lightly when it comes to giving my 2 cents on various posts that I see here, I come from Finance Globe originally so this is all semi foreign to me, but what I will say is this, I saw the writing on the wall with NASA FCU, I too was one who applied with them months back and was declined for too many new accounts and inquires, and even though I feft my income and score and payment history warranted an approval, the reality is, they dont know me, they just see a credit bureau, when your underwriting loans, you look at various levels of risk, just because certain parts of the puzzle fit, doesnt mean all aspects of if will, I can understand the rush people feel when they get approved for something, but you need to ask yourself this, do I really need this new trade? Or am I just looking for a fix? I have more than enough credit, in fact I have almost $400,000.00 in unsecured available to me at any given moment, that in its self should wake me up and make me realize that maybe its time to stop, streamline what I have, and garden until dooms day! I wont set here and pick anyone apart for doing what I have been guilty of myself, but I also wont feel bad for those who keep playing the game, knowing what the stakes are, only to be upset when things dont fall in their favor. Much like I have warned with DCU in the past, Nasa is doing the same thing, when they see unusual amounts of applications coming in, and from various parts of the country where they know their not marketing in, Im sure this concerns them, hence, why they are taking such a harder look before they put their stamp on it. At the end of the day, its just business, and who knows? Perhaps their doing everyone involved a favor by saying NO! He who holds the gold, has the say, and looks like Nasa has the last word on each and everyone of their applications.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

B335is — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:18:24 GMT

@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....

Honestly this was over the top though. Truck loads of threads over 1-2 days asking the same questions; How do I apply? Is Nasa BK friendly? etc... Every other credit related topic was lost in the mess. Search is your friend

I think the mods did a nice job getting the threads consolidated and cleaned up.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

SunriseEarth — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:39:56 GMT

@B335is wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....
Honestly this was over the top though. Truck loads of threads over 1-2 days asking the same questions; How do I apply? Is Nasa BK friendly? etc... Every other credit related topic was lost in the mess. Search is your friend

I think the mods did a nice job getting the threads consolidated and cleaned up.

+1. It was overwhelming and I'm glad moves were made. There are lots of "what does AMEX like" and "will AMEX FR me if..." and "PM me the Cap One EO info" threads, but they didn't seem as visceral as NASA. Even the Duck/Beaver stampede didn't seem this bad.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

peaceonearth — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:48:28 GMT

@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....

I agree with you. I post and someone comes after me to dump my thread somewhere else and it can not be found.

What's up with these MODs or Admins..

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

Revelate — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:43:56 GMT

@peaceonearth wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....
I agree with you. I post and someone comes after me to dump my thread somewhere else and it can not be found.
What's up with these MODs or Admins..

There are two methods of finding it moderatly easily: from the redirect link (which admittedly has the misfortune of being timestamped at the original post time, rather than the time it was moved), or to look under your profile and "view all posts" if it doesn't show up in the shortened list.

The forum would become entirely unwieldy if we did not organize the posts into a heirarchical fashion. and we do have a method to our madness as to what goes where and it's generally not too awkward.

What is awkward is people who simply post XYZ in some generalized spot, like CC's, such that people can't easily find CC-oriented material. We've had that before, and as such we simply move the posts.

It's not a perfect system to be certain, but to pull a lesson out of corporate America, it's fine to complain, but offer a solution too.

ETA: the timestamping issue is admittedly annoying and lame; I put a request into the Lithium folks to see if they can timestamp to when we move the thread, i.e. current time, rather than original post time which in a busy forum like CC's can get moved back pages and become more easily lost.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

weehoo — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:50:26 GMT

I will be glad when the NASA wave is over. Not sure what the lure is anyways. Big CL maybe, but below average reward structure makes this an easy one to pass up.

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

youngandcreditwrthy — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:53:47 GMT

Dang! Where have I been and WHERE is my NASA card?
Oh that's right... I'm being a good boy in the garden... Almost three months😇

Re: MERGING NASA THREADS

peaceonearth — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 05:50:29 GMT

@Revelate wrote:
@peaceonearth wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:
ITS FUNNY PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT SO MANY NASA THREADS WHEN I HAVE SEEN 100'S OF AMEX THREADS THAT AL SAY THE SAME THING BASICALLY....
I agree with you. I post and someone comes after me to dump my thread somewhere else and it can not be found.
What's up with these MODs or Admins..
There are two methods of finding it moderatly easily: from the redirect link (which admittedly has the misfortune of being timestamped at the original post time, rather than the time it was moved), or to look under your profile and "view all posts" if it doesn't show up in the shortened list.

The forum would become entirely unwieldy if we did not organize the posts into a heirarchical fashion. and we do have a method to our madness as to what goes where and it's generally not too awkward.

What is awkward is people who simply post XYZ in some generalized spot, like CC's, such that people can't easily find CC-oriented material. We've had that before, and as such we simply move the posts.

It's not a perfect system to be certain, but to pull a lesson out of corporate America, it's fine to complain, but offer a solution too.

ETA: the timestamping issue is admittedly annoying and lame; I put a request into the Lithium folks to see if they can timestamp to when we move the thread, i.e. current time, rather than original post time which in a busy forum like CC's can get moved back pages and become more easily lost.

One thing I remember for sure. Sept 25th, was a very unique day at myfico forums. NASA CU generated Excitement, Entrainment, Frustration and Joy.

I understand, how hard it was to manage the forums on that day.

Thanks