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Should we create a mega thread for show recommendations? [Question] (feddit.uk)
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I don't want to stop interest in UK TV, however I have seen a few questions about UK TV recommendations (maybe not all in this sub).

I remember seeing this happen a lot in the UK TV subs on Reddit which always ended up being the same 20 shows giving a low signal to noise, so I was wondering whether we could preempt it by making a mega thread to point people to to improve the quality of recommendations. Perhaps have some rules, such as only a single show per comment so people can vote on what they did or didn't enjoy and end up with a ranked list?

Other thoughts I had were a mega thread per type of show, so popular sitcoms or police procedurals don't drown out interesting dramas, and therefore an index pinned to point people to?

[Edit] Maybe each comment should contain the location where it can be watched? Might be hard as region restrictions mean that folks outside the UK wouldn't add iPlayer URLs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My suggestion would be a pinned post with links to the various recommendations threads.

Link aggregators aren't really the best platform for this but it's a start and avoids duplication.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're not, but questions will still keep coming in and improving the quality of the answers is important (at least for me).

Otherwise it'll end up like Reddit where an American asks, and we just get the same 5 shows repeated in a different order.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

More of a meta thread would be my pick:

Other thoughts I had were a mega thread per type of show, so popular sitcoms or police procedurals don’t drown out interesting dramas, and therefore an index pinned to point people to?

So one pinned post that points to the various genres/types threads, like this for comedy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't think it needs to be ranked, because tastes are subjective. Maybe make it a weekly thread where people can post a request in a comment, and then there's a list of similar shows from the previous week's comments. Someone posts a comment with a police procedural, and they get a (curated) list of all the similar shows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I meant that it only end up getting ranked because people vote, not because it needs to. But a weekly thread is an interesting idea.