[Help!] Thread Flooding [I can't swim]

Hey InARut *look at spam post I mean Post Count* SPAMMING IS VERY BAD!

Serioulsy I notice this 2

 

There is a post count for a word which is more the 2 or 3 words thats about it.

 

u know im jking right

 

Guys settle down .Don't personal attack each other *turns into a moderator aka peace keeper*

 

lol phil is the king of sarcasm, please excuse him.

 

if anything tho, we should be giving kudos to him for giving so much to the site.

 

Agreed

 

Burn them !

 

No, you just spam other peoples threads instead :icon_wink

Seriously tho' - some people simply aren't as expressive as others. That being said, you'd be surprised just how many spammy threads are deleted from the forums.

 

Every single thread or post on EC hardly needs to serve a purpose...

 

There was that thread titled 'Hard' going on about how depressing life was...I can't actually believe enough people responded to get it past 1 full page of posts. It seriously should have just been deleted cos it was a complete waste of space.

That said, I only post something when there's something worth talking about. Cos writing 2 words and expecting people to make a decent reply is just ludicrous.

 

There is a difference between spamming and hijacking

 

You could always raise the minimum character count for a post to 50 or 75.

 

The person who started the "Hard" thread also started several others that were equally pointless. I think this was an attempt to get 10 posts to access the chatroom. The others (about 8-10 of them) had no replies so were all deleted.

"Hard" however already had about 10 replies by the time I got to it. It was becoming one of those random fun chat threads that was doing no harm, so I moved it to Fun and Games and left it to continue.

If we went around closing all these random chat threads we would be criticised for being heavy-handed. Remember the mess and criticism when the photo posting thread got hijacked, and we had to close it?

The approach at the moment is to move these more trivial but fun threads to Fun and Games, and try to keep the slightly more serious and general stuff in Chit Chat. We don't want to limit people's fun here, but it helps to keep it in Fun and Games generally.

We are trying to reduce the amount of thread hijacking around the place, and I think there is some improvement in that regard now. In particular we delete irrelevant or trivial posts in threads in the support sections to keep them focused on the thread starter's issue.

More specifically on spamming, when someone posts something pointless in a thread, such as just "idk" or whatever, we will delete it. Some of these are just for post count I think (chatroom access again). We probably delete 10-20 of these a day, sometimes more.

 

I would also like to add if you see them use the report button and let the admins or mods know

 

Why did you close the Make clothes for gays thread? =(