Talk:Hoarding

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Should merge with Billboard (advertising). No need for two differently named articles. Since I'm American and prefer American spellings, I'll be gracious and propose Hoarding for the merged result. --Uncle Ed 20:43, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Certainly a merge would work – however, it seems Wikipedia blocks pages with 'advertising' in the title (and thus such links); will a redirect, then, help any? Sinuhe 20:51, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC) (Sorry, I forgot that I set up my browser to do that; it is all right in Wikipedia!)

Hoarding might be better as a disambiguation page because of the many meanings. I'm not sure yet what the exact titles should be for each of the different kinds of hoarding. --Intelligentsia 19:42, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Having just come from browsing http://www.childrenofhoarders.com/ it's obvious this article is missing a whole subject area. -71.49.163.77 16:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think having 1000-2000 mp3s on an mp3 player counts as hoarding. It doesn't clutter up the player at all, its simply a convenience issue ... Ppe42 11:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree. Having a personal copy of a file from the Internet isn't hoarding as much as it is having a local, secure copy readily accessible. Every time a file is loaded remotely, it consumes bandwidth and time, so instead of downloading a song every time one wishes to listen to it, it makes infinitely more sense to have a local copy. Back in junior high, my school's systems administrator made a similar mistake; rather than install a program to every computer, he instead placed a single copy on the network. It quickly overwhelmed the network, rendering the computer labs unusable and effectively derailing the teachers' lesson plans.

So yeah, please consider rewriting that. ~ Eidako 21:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Well hoarding does count if the person beleives that the item being saved is due to "run out" some time soon or they never have a use for it. storing 1000-2000 songs is "hoarding" is you are never going to listen to them or only once every five years when you clean out your file system - and only listen to if becasue you didn't name it properly. A lot of people I know compulsively download software, files, music etc and never ever do any thing with them. they just "hoard" them for a rainy day or something that to me is the definition of hoarding if you go to the shop and buy food to last a week thats normal if you consume the food each week if you buy two weeks worth of food each week and don't use one weeks worth each week - "just in case" then you are a hoarder..just like a chipmunk hoarders always have a "just in case" mind set... they collect things that are not valuable or rare or unusual "just in case" one day they might be. but like chipmunks they serve a useful purpose - without which we probably wouldn't have oak forests - hoarders don't have perfect memories ;-)

also commercial hoarding DOES NOT increase the relative long term value of anything in a free society - if the price goes up because of diminished supply other players find ways to produce that supply or find an alternate product that does the same thing. A classic example is the Hunt brothers who 20-30 years ago tried to corner the world silver market. - they went broke trying. people produced more silver in response to increased prices and others who couldn't afford the new inflated silver price chose to use alternate chemicals or metals - which in turn reduced the silver price and left the Hunt brothers with expensive silver they couldn't sell. Its a stupid communist idea that you can "corner the market" so I propose a change to this last section...