[Elliott]

Well, the spam forum has hit 47,000+ posts. Time for a cleanout don'cha think?

[Mallick]

I definetly think so. I think it should be cleaned atleast every week, it shouldn't be left to gather 47 000+ posts, that's for sure.

[Elliott]

I don't want this to turn into another "I hate the spam forum thread", because god knows we've had plenty enough of those. But I do agree, there should be a more strict prune setting applies, because 47,000 posts is way to much, by anyone's standards.

[Valistrix]

I agree, thousands of those posts will never be replied to, no point in them being there.

[Nobody]

I agree with exactly what everyone else in this topic has said. It takes up a lot of space in the database.

[Nick Presta]

The spam forum has been reduced down to 33000 posts.
And while that seems like a lot, that doesn't take up a massive amount in any database.

[TobiasMar]

Well, now I did hate my odd post in the spam center, I'm SO glad the spam posts were deleted, I think my SPAM post count got reduced by at least 33%-50%. =)

[Elliott]

33000!!! Couldn't you get it down to 5000?

[Zxor]

...d00d, that would be nice, but that is a big drop already..

[Elliott]

Man, it's SPAM, it's NOT important.
I think we could stand to lose 30,000 pointless, annoying, random, unfunny messages.

[Max]

I trimmed all topics that haven't been posted in in a week, and 33,000 were left over. I'll try various prune settings over the next few days until I find a managable number.

[Neon]

just erase the entire forum. Who honestly needs to read all 70000 pages of the random topic? It's all the same garbage over and over. It's random crap, so starting anew topic would make no difference.

And it's the same for every other spam topic.

[Crimson Barrel Knight]

Neon, on Mar 27 2005, 11:19 PM, said:

just erase the entire forum. Who honestly needs to read all 70000 pages of the random topic? It's all the same garbage over and over. It's random crap, so starting anew topic would make no difference.

And it's the same for every other spam topic.

Well, think about it. GSSF without a Spam forum would induce a lot of tempermental issues, seriously. I mean, people go there to either blow off steam or just have fun. And what good is a forum without any fun?

[Neon]

i mean, wipe the entire forum clean and start again.
I don't think anyone's particularly interested in what people said on the 342nd page of a 891 page long topic :\.

Only a few topics are worth keeping. I doubt anyone woud care if the others were deleted.

[Elliott]

Exactly.
Wipe it clean. Does anyone REALLY care if those topics are lost? Honestly?
Do you go reading through them a week after they have died, to see what someone said in response to your irrelevent random post?

[Nobody]

I agree with Agatio on this. It's just...SPAM. With the exception of the people who post there alot, who cares if 70% if the spam (or something like that) is deleted for starting over?

[TobiasMar]

Well, maybe too much SPAM pruning would make some people leave....like pruning TRTU, otherwise, it would be fine with me. I want most of my stupid past in SPAM forum gone.

[Yokutai]

Agatio, on Mar 28 2005, 08:56 AM, said:

Exactly.
Wipe it clean. Does anyone REALLY care if those topics are lost? Honestly?
Do you go reading through them a week after they have died, to see what someone said in response to your irrelevent random post?

I agree with Agatio, Old Spam topics or Spam topics that contain more then 100 pages should wiped since no one really cares about previous posts ( Unless your one of those spam loving people :) )

[Elliott]

Gimli, are you actually saying you care what happens to That Random Topic Unlimited? If you are, it make sme wonder about you...

[Zxor]

Some people do care if a topic is lost, but it shoul be cleaned. Some people don't want their spam post to drop.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Uhm people whats so intressting about how much you post? '~'

[Zxor]

Which opst count, spam or normal?

[Elliott]

This topic is about the spam forum so assume he is reffering to people who care about their spam forum post count. God knows why.

[Zxor]

They probably want to be the member with the highest spam post count.

[Elliott]

Well that's a pretty damn lame thing to be isn't it?

[Zxor]

Ya, the only thing they should be mad at is if their real post count decreased, like, you should be proud that you have 4000 + posts, not is you have 5000+ Spam posts.

[Elliott]

In the end it's just a number, but it's kinda nice to have a high one, outside the spam forum of course. I don't see any reason to proud of having 5000 pointless posts.

[Zxor]

Ya, but some people are proud. That is probably why they do chains, double posting, and complete their post in five posts.

[Elliott]

All that does is emphasise their inherent stupidity, and show that are almost incapable of serious, mature and normal discussion.

[Zxor]

Yes, and that is why they say things like "who brought pie" out of nowhere, or "I love salami", again, out of nowhere.

[Elliott]

Anyone who derives pleasure from posting things like that on an internet forum has some issues that need resolving.

[Zxor]

I totally agree, well, we are at 23903 replies right now, which go up about 15 per minute, or ten, so I guess it is going well.