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Originally Posted by peteshimmon
Does anyone want to give examples of any ATM thread they thought exemplary?
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The Arp thread is gigantic and rambling, and thanks for those that tried to index it, but in the last year (roughly) we tried to coordinate it as an experiment on how the ATM section could run better, and some really good things happened.
So I do not point to the Arp thread in its entirety as a good example to imitate, but those who were part of it know what about it is worth imitating. I think that in the future we'll have smaller shorter topics like "Arp - Red Shifts of Satellite Galaxies", or "Arp - Proper Motions of Quasars On Bridges", and these will run 30 days, and if they still are making progress, maybe get extended.
The Arp thread is a special case however becuse there are some active researchers publishing papers about the Arp model. Most ATM ideas don't have this, and can't imitate the new input. If we look at someone like
Coldcreation, whose idea is basically his own, how do we use this idea for how the forum shoud work? I'd suggest again, breaking it into specific small topics that can possibly show the difference between his idea and mainstream for specific sets of observations such as "Coldcreation - Time Dilation in Type 1a Supernovae" or "Coldcreation - CMB Polarization".
Sometimes we get people posting an ATM idea that is outside the bounds of what can be observed or measured. I have no answer for how we should best handle these, except to get as much clarity from the poster as possible about what he or she means in 30 days.