[Elliott]

Well, the spam forum has hit over 40,000 posts again.
I suggest doing a cleanout of everything over 2 weeks old.
Please?
(btw, is there anyway to tell the total amount of posts in the spam forum since its beginning, I'm interested to know what percentage of this forums post are spam)

Thanks!

[Nick Presta]

I can prune the spam forum now, but I don't know about total posts.

[Elliott]

Ok, Maybe Max can find out through the statistics. Thanks Nick!

[TobiasMar]

Err...no....In my opinion, having topics not posted in for a week in the spam forum shown off the page (but not pruned) is good enough.

This post has been edited by Gimli the Great: 25 January 2005 - 10:39 PM

[Silo STATIC]

Agatio, on Jan 24 2005, 12:45 AM, said:

Well, the spam forum has hit over 40,000 posts again.
I suggest doing a cleanout of everything over 2 weeks old.
Please?
(btw, is there anyway to tell the total amount of posts in the spam forum since its beginning, I'm interested to know what percentage of this forums post are spam)

Thanks!

I thought you left for a bit ... ?

Gimli the Great, on Jan 25 2005, 10:06 PM, said:

Err...no....In my opinion, having every 7 topics in the spam forum shown off the page (but not pruned) is good enough.

I have no clue what you said. Even so, pruning the Spam/Testing forum is better for the forums. Keeping active topics instead of ones that haven't been posted within at least a month means more efficient browsing of the forum.

[TobiasMar]

Silo STATIC, on Jan 25 2005, 10:11 PM, said:

I have no clue what you said. Even so, pruning the Spam/Testing forum is better for the forums.

Whoops, I didnt do the right wording.

But, I thought you were ganna keep TRTIII even though it is closed...

[Elliott]

Boo hoo, yoo lose a few hundred spam posts. It's not the end of the world, and the majority went something like this:

*throws carrot at next poster*

[Ravenblade]

*is hit by carrot* ow..

he has a point gimli - there are so many irrelevant and dead topics around. It coul do with being cut down. Even if that means TRTIII dies..

[Elliott]

I think everything everything that hasn't been posted in in 7 days should be automatically deleted.

[My Best Wishes]

Agaito what is your opsession about killing the spam forum. i grant you that some of it is comeplete garbage but its a good place for something to show or say that doesn't belong in off-topic.

[Elliott]

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i grant you that some of it is comeplete garbage

It's all complete garbrage, and the sooner people realise that the better.

[Kikuichimonji]

Oh lord I thought I'll never live to see the day I say this, but Agatio has the right idea.

The spam forum now is just like another MSN, totally random and irrelevent at times. It's leaving no room for proper discussion anymore which is the point of a forum.

Consider this as a big thing for me to say because I used to love the spam forum, but now, I'm not so sure

[Elliott]

The last thing I expected was for Kiku to agree with me!
At last someone shares my view on the bloody spam forum.
I mean looks, 33000 posts in there, and about a third of that number in off topic where the discussion is supposed to happen. And if the spam forum hadn't been cleaned out, it would be double what it is now.
Is this a discussion forum? Or a big IM conversation (full of crap)?

[Ravenblade]

you certainly have a point agatio, but i dont know what can be done about it now...its a good place for the newbs to hang and make friends (although this means the rest of us are kinda pushed out a little by the incessant warring and such). It is getting a little tiresome now, just one big skirmish over about 10 topics.

[Kikuichimonji]

I don't think it should be removed outright, however there should be a few new guidelines or even change the title to a games forum if it must be because due to the sudden invasion, it's very hard for mods to keep things in some sort of order I'm sure.

I know that's the place where most people made friends, even I did ^^.
And I don't want to ruin anyone else's fun but it's gone to the extreme of defeating the purpose of a forum and,dare I say it, even off putting for those amongst us who do want to discuss/debate.

I'm stressing this only if things go really out of hand.

[Elliott]

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I don't think it should be removed outright, however there should be a few new guidelines or even change the title to a games forum if it must be.

That's the best we can hope for. Not removing it, but just making guidlines and strictly enforcing them.

I would love to see it completely removed though. But Max is too stubborn, so it's not going to happen anytime soon.

[Neon]

Omg, I'm not the only person who dislikes the spam forum.
I think it's good for a bit of random stupidity every now and then, but that's all it is.

Actually, my biggest complaint is that people are neglecting the real forum, and spending all their time posting garbage that even they don't care about.

[Elliott]

EXACTLY!!!
*praises neon*
Compare the number of posts in the spam forum (double actually what it is now), to the rest of the forum. It takes up about half of the total posts. Utterly pathetic!

[Someone Else]

Well, since I've decided to be less active so I don't really give much of a crap as to what goes on around here, I'd like to see the Spam Forum get shaped up with less random and totally retarted topics.

This of course, can be done, with a prune. :P

[TheDogWho]

Agatio, on Jan 30 2005, 03:55 AM, said:

*praises neon*

Time for my praise...

I think the Spam and Testing Forums should be re-branded. I think the word games forum was a brilliant idea.

[Elliott]

Well Max is a little to stubborn to do that. But making the auto prune/delete back to 7 days is a good idea.

[Max]

Agatio, will you please stop saying I'm stubborn? That's gotta be like the 10th time in the past few weeks. I have stated before, the spam forum was created for a specific purpose, which it is doing very well. We have not had a major spam problem in a long time. If you do not like it, then simply don't use it. You have your own place to talk now, so what does it matter to you anyways?

[Elliott]

Ok, I admit maybe stubborn is bad wording on my part. It's a good thing though. It's good that you stick to what think is right. and yes, I usually have it minimized so I don't have to see it. But I still think having a "spam" forum defeats the purpose. After all, isn't this a "discussion" forum. And if you can find discussion in there, I would love to see it. Setting the auto prune would keep it nice a small, saving database space and bandwidth, which is something you're trying to do right?

[TobiasMar]

Agatio, on Jan 28 2005, 08:30 PM, said:

Boo hoo, yoo lose a few hundred spam posts. It's not the end of the world, and the majority went something like this:

*throws carrot at next poster*

^_^ Now that was just uncalled for. How dare you mock me! ^_^

Agatio, just because you don't like the spam forum, doesn't mean you should call the admin (Max) Stubborn just because he won't do auto-prune, or mock/insult people who like it.

Plus, I do agree that Max was right on that last post.

[Elliott]

As do I, as I corrected myself.

And I wasn't meant to mock you, I apologise if I did, I was just pointing out that spamful posts really aren't that important, and the would won't be any worse off if they are deleted.

[TobiasMar]

Well, true, but if its causing problems in the Database, let Max deal with it.

[Elliott]

I doubt they cause any problems, they just take up space, and the idea of this thread is to inform Max and Nick of my opinions, which it has already done, so please, close this topic now? It need not be left open.