I’ve come across a Spectrum post of a user reporting that, allegedly, some threads on Spectrum cannot be upvoted, and wondering why this is the case. They shared this response preview picture in their post.

The answer why this is happening may be right there in the error message.

As someone who worked on a proprietary forum backend API before, I can tell you that what you’re seeing is called “thread sinking”. It’s a tool sometimes employed by moderation to prevent unwanted bumping of threads you don’t want to gain visibility on your board, for whatever the reason may be.

Basically, it’s a more subtle way to prevent certain threads from gaining visibility and getting into search engine front pages. Not saying Spectrum is getting any search engine traction, but when I did the work on the API I worked on, this was the reason.

You don’t have to believe me, just google “forum thread sinking”.

EDIT: fixed a few grammar errors

day 1,214 of building everything in star citizen at scale out of lego
started arround May 2023

On many occasions in the past, you've talked about us having personal habs and building interiors, including places where there could be missions and even places we could buy and decorate.

You keep giving us all this furniture, decorations, flair, but we really don't have anywhere to really put it. You've mentioned letting us expand our Personal Hangars, but I have a very strong feeling things like that are well past 1.0 dreams.

Could we get at least one "room" in our Personal Hangars that would be empty that we could decorate with all the cool stuff you keep giving us? Even in the small hangar, there's space to put a room, taking out some of the 'immersive' set dressing.

Please only discuss about the location and no complaining about the state of game or bugs.

Didn’t we just get a coin case like 5 days ago? Wtf is going on?

I’ve been watching this game wishing I had a pc that could play it and I think I’ll be able to so I was wondering if its true that the players are really cool and will help new players? Im going to get a starter pack in the morning and would love some tips

So I wanted to haul some cargo in my Hermes. Got to the station, bought my cargo and let it auto-load. Got back to the terminal and retrieved the ship, take the elevator to my hangar and surprise the piece of ship ship clipps halfway through the hangar floor. Try to store and retrieve it again. Nope, it’s fucking gone and all cargo with it (about 700,000 UEC). This type of thing probably has been posted hundreds of times, but how do simple gameplay mechanics still don’t work? So frustrating and just makes you don’t want to play.

With 3 hours remaining, the Perseus leads the M80 by 12,200+ votes.

First of all - I want to say thanks to all of those, who managed to read the whole post. The Star Citizen universe became huge part of my life, not just a hobby, but a place where I met multiple amazing people, got tons of emotions and years of really cool experience no game could provide.

I was from the start of the Kickstarter campaign, and actually believed what Chris told me from the scene (how naive I was), but that's not really matter for now, after more than a decade.

For some reason I can't actually play any other games because I really love SC universe that much - absolutely amazing people in there, helping each other, sometimes griefing each other XDD, etc. BUT now for me the game became an absolute mess. Why? - Many gameplay things added - are just broken for multiple patches.

I've played SC for thousands of hours and I'm really tired of that "bad server" take is still a thing, I'm really tired that in 2026 we still sometimes can't basically reload fps weapon and having stuck animations, that in 2026 we still have broken cargo elevators cig couldn't fix for at least a year while whole community was complaining, that in 2026 we still have such important reward parts of the game as CZs and Warehouses broken, with broken terminals.

I love this project and community from the deep of my heart and want it to develop in the best way possible, but, jesus, why the fundamental things in this game are still not working correctly after more than a decade of my dedication to this project.

If I could say something important to CIG - I would say that, guys, now we want actual product, working product, without "its an alpha", without "no when questions", just fix the fundamentals we, as players, use each time, and nearly each time - its broken. Star Citizen is an amazing game, when it works. So, if you want to make it really amazing - make it work.

I don't want another patch bundle & ship. I want a patch with numerous bugfixes, fixing fundamentals of this game, making it amazing and providing really cool experience. That's what we need. And as much as you guys delayed squadron - let us start to enjoy the Star Citizen universe.

I've ran Siege of Orison twice, one time in solo, second time - with my friend. Both of these times I had numerous D-syncs with my inventory & weapons. It was just disappearing from my hands, not realoading, etc. And I had absolutely same experience in bunkers 6 years ago, guys. What instances and server meshing gave us, if we still have such bugged mess? Yes, you gave us another architecture & principals of servers repositioning their powers, BUT, we still got that FPS experience we've got 6 years ago. Its an actual nonsense.

Yes, sometimes Star Citizen can provide pretty smooth experience and I had that many times. And that's what I want to say - if the game worked as intended - it could be an absolute blast of a game. But 90% of my experience is spending hours to workaround the bugs we're facing.

And about "no when questions" - its even a different thing. Why me, as 10+ years backer - can't ask when I'll get the product I payed and dedicated to for multiple years? This feels like a joke. I can and I want to ask when will I get certain things absolutely needed for this project.

You, CIG, probably the only guys possible to make this project complete. And I'm a bit sad seeing the project getting this direction. So I want to ask - when will we actually see Star Citizen universe actually work as intended? When will I stop spending hours writing bug reports on issue council instead of actually having smooth experience, even with old content you added?

By writing this post I just want to say, that I'm proud to be a part of amazing people we've got around SC, and I'm really worried by what's going on around the project. And, I'm afraid, that if nothing will change in near future - there's nothing to save the situation around it.

Screenshot Simulator never disappoints.

Pretty straight forward. I went to see if there were any posts about one of my favorite ships only yo find they had all been un-tagged! I'd hate for folks to not understand things about this ship, so I repopulated the topic.

I would love to hear from CIG why this happened. This topic was useful for anyone interested in this ship after seeing older content on youtube or elsewhere. Especially while things were not reflecting the current state of the ship or its nerfs.

It also has 1M internal storage. Overall very cool addition in my opinion

Gotta love having no neck