Can we make a single RIP thread?

[Mr.Marion]

BJ Thomas passed way too

I wasn't a fan of his "this time the girl is going to stay" but when Elvis and Spock cover your song you pretty much are a legend.

[Nostalgiabuff]

BJ Thomas passed way too

[ODBJBG]

Shame to hear about Butch Reed, but not entirely unexpected. Sounded like he was in bad shape the other day when it was announced he'd had two heart attacks.

[powersthatbe]

RIP "the natural" butch reed and tag team partner to ron simmons of 'Doom"

[PNGwynne]

Henry's Tarzan films are some of my favorites.

[TrekStar]

I’m not sure, but was Henry’s likeness used for the Mego Tarzan box art pic? to me it kind of looks like him in sort of a comic art way. I’m curious to know if anyone here knows the history behind the art on the Mego Tarzan box?

[Earth 2 Chris]

^He also played Tarzan, and Junior in the Smokey and the Bandit films. RIP.

Chris

[Mr.Marion]

RIP Mike Henry , He was in "one of our running backs is missing "

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mike-henry-nfl-player-actor-051316976.html

Mike Henry, a former NFL linebacker and actor known for playing Tarzan in the 1960s, has died. He was 84. Henry died Jan. 8 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bur...

[ODBJBG]

Also, regarding “too many RIP threads”, I don’t feel like the first page of these forums changes so drastically and quickly that topics get lost from the first page before anyone has seen it.

Except people stop coming into this particular area of the forum because it's literally just "This person died, this person died, this person died, I bought a new TV, this person died, this person died". Last time I brought this up, this forum went up in activity because people stopped posting about every death and the area of the forum was more of a community of general discussion. All the constant death, doom and gloom heavily weighs down a section of the forum that should be a fun, more interesting part of the boards, IMO.

A lot of mediocre/forgotten celebs would go unnoticed if not for a posted RIP thread.

I feel like this makes a great case for exactly why they shouldn't be given their own thread.

[Mikey]

I can understand No Sex, No Politics and No Hate Talk

Everything that is family friendly should be fair game,imo

[thunderbolt]

There’s a glut of threads lately. Lots of folks in their 90s coupled with Covid getting a lot of elderly folks is driving it up.

[Type3Toys]

I wouldn't keep looking at a thread that was strictly for dead people. That seems like a strange way to honor people that passed away. Kinda sounds like a mass grave that keeps getting new bodies dumped into it. Maybe it's own section of the forum, but not a single thread. I vote "no".

I agree with Lonnie. If they are worth mentioning they deserve some measure of respect.

[Mikey]

A lot of mediocre/forgotten celebs would go unnoticed if not for a posted RIP thread.

This is the 21st century version of old people reading obituaries in the local newspaper

[YoungOnce]

I vote for no ongoing RIP thread. I won’t complain either way, but my thinking is that when someone of note passes away, what does it hurt to honor them one last time?

I would never “check in” on a RIP thread. But if I see in a post someone has died that I know, I’ll check it out.

Also, regarding “too many RIP threads”, I don’t feel like the first page of these forums changes so drastically and quickly that topics get lost from the first page before anyone has seen it.

[ODBJBG]

i don't mind the multiple threads. i think with a single thread, some of the notices would probably get lost as people post their tributes and there would very quickly be too many pages to easily read through

That ALREADY happens, when people's RIP threads get bumped down by other RIP threads. Christ, someone started a thread today for someone who died a MONTH ago.

And many of these threads only get a couple of responses anyway. Most of the posts are brief. It's not like there's some great discussion and if there is, there's no reason it wouldn't flourish in a consildated thread. If anything that's MORE likely to happen.