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I have noticed a distinct change in the attitude of people around these forums. An immatruity and spamming tinge has left a sour taste in the mouth, but it never really struck me until today....................why??
Well, it was actually the fact that the notables all seem to hate this place now. When I came here, it was these guys that were the life and soul of the forums, and made me consider coming here more often, so I did, but recently the forums have been overrun by rubbish. There is far too much Spam and chat going on in topics people would like to be treated with respect. In the past people would post here, and have a laugh, but keep the mindless banter and insults to MSN or for e-mails, but now this forum seems to be a general chat sever, and it is losing the people that made this place special in the first place.
I know this post will be treated like every other regulars concerns and be brushed aside, but just stop to think for a second what it is you are doing here, and whether your chatter would be better kept for MSN or a proper chat server, if it could, then it would be much better to kep it there rather than clutter this forum with what is known as "SPAM". I don;t know if anyone will listen to this or not, and I;m not expecting miracles, but I know that Grix has become disillusioned and fed up with this forum, and that to me is a problem..............
Well, it was actually the fact that the notables all seem to hate this place now. When I came here, it was these guys that were the life and soul of the forums, and made me consider coming here more often, so I did, but recently the forums have been overrun by rubbish. There is far too much Spam and chat going on in topics people would like to be treated with respect. In the past people would post here, and have a laugh, but keep the mindless banter and insults to MSN or for e-mails, but now this forum seems to be a general chat sever, and it is losing the people that made this place special in the first place.
I know this post will be treated like every other regulars concerns and be brushed aside, but just stop to think for a second what it is you are doing here, and whether your chatter would be better kept for MSN or a proper chat server, if it could, then it would be much better to kep it there rather than clutter this forum with what is known as "SPAM". I don;t know if anyone will listen to this or not, and I;m not expecting miracles, but I know that Grix has become disillusioned and fed up with this forum, and that to me is a problem..............
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Spam is when people start like 2 line topics in Prime.
MSN is the chat place. Not the forums..
MSN is the chat place. Not the forums..
Oh come on Wookiee... humour is not spam. If we had topics full of the stuff you lot talk about, I would never leave this place.
Spam is dull and uninteresting titbits of pathetic minds.
Spam is dull and uninteresting titbits of pathetic minds.
Maybe this forum should be renamed "General chat" instead of "FoG chat"?
Personally, I'm also guilty - along with YH and Goatboy (sorry guys) - of turning some threads into complete nonsense, with what (in our view) are amusing posts.
So I can't really shout about 'spam'. But again, as has been said, it depends on where you draw the line and what you call 'spam'.
An odd humourous post regarding a comment someone has made should be accepted, as long as it doesn't drag the thread away from it's original topic for too long; in other words, discretion is advised.
Certainly in FoG Prime, only minimal diversions should be acceptable. In other forums (Life, Sport & Football or DVD, Music and TV etc.) most people will gauge their reply post by the tone of the original. Of course, this isn't always the case!
The 'spam level' idea you suggested in the PS2 forum was in theory a good idea, but I don't think it would work in the way you intended it. Just as with the spam in FoG Prime, people don't always pay attention to polite requests.
It would be nice if SR/Webby could introduce some kind of radio-button setting for when you start a new topic in the forums (other than Chat) whereby you could set a 'spam level' that would be visibly shown at the top of each page of the thread, and the option of reporting or - better still - giving the creator of the topic the power to delete severely off-topic posts from the thread.
Not sure how workable that is, but it's an idea.
Personally, I'm also guilty - along with YH and Goatboy (sorry guys) - of turning some threads into complete nonsense, with what (in our view) are amusing posts.
So I can't really shout about 'spam'. But again, as has been said, it depends on where you draw the line and what you call 'spam'.
An odd humourous post regarding a comment someone has made should be accepted, as long as it doesn't drag the thread away from it's original topic for too long; in other words, discretion is advised.
Certainly in FoG Prime, only minimal diversions should be acceptable. In other forums (Life, Sport & Football or DVD, Music and TV etc.) most people will gauge their reply post by the tone of the original. Of course, this isn't always the case!
The 'spam level' idea you suggested in the PS2 forum was in theory a good idea, but I don't think it would work in the way you intended it. Just as with the spam in FoG Prime, people don't always pay attention to polite requests.
It would be nice if SR/Webby could introduce some kind of radio-button setting for when you start a new topic in the forums (other than Chat) whereby you could set a 'spam level' that would be visibly shown at the top of each page of the thread, and the option of reporting or - better still - giving the creator of the topic the power to delete severely off-topic posts from the thread.
Not sure how workable that is, but it's an idea.
I think that the top Posters Stats should be the first thing to go.
It does sort of encourage spam.
Newbies like to see their name high on the chart so they spam up 1000 messages in 30 days in order to make themselves famous.
It does sort of encourage spam.
Newbies like to see their name high on the chart so they spam up 1000 messages in 30 days in order to make themselves famous.
If I was to blame something, it would be these things:
Everyone.
Everyone.
how do you get spam on the internet?
I thought it came in tins in asda,sainburys and that lot ;-)
I thought it came in tins in asda,sainburys and that lot ;-)
I think the top posters chart has something to do with this.
When I first came here, I thought I could just write loads of replies and in about a week Id be the top poster, with over 10'000 posts, above Grix and the rest of the crew!
And theres the copularity pontest thing where the top posters are mentioned and everyone expresses their view on each person. Maybe the newbies are trying to impress us by posting lots?...... Well Im not impressed......
When I first came here, I thought I could just write loads of replies and in about a week Id be the top poster, with over 10'000 posts, above Grix and the rest of the crew!
And theres the copularity pontest thing where the top posters are mentioned and everyone expresses their view on each person. Maybe the newbies are trying to impress us by posting lots?...... Well Im not impressed......
I personally blame newbies. Not becuase they spam and don't have anything intelligent to say (which they don't, BTW), but because there's so many of them and they have totally the wrong idea. This place used to me a community, but now it's just a forum because the newbies treat it as one. This IS only newbies, by the way, not anyone else. The newbies learn, and cease to become newbies, but then more newbies come along. It's very frustrating but we can't do anything about it.
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