I think we need to thin out the herd a little. I'm slowly building my repuation and influence with the staff to the point where I can do so with little or no reversal or reprimand. It will be Super Delete's finest hour.
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I think we need to thin out the herd a little. I'm slowly building my repuation and influence with the staff to the point where I can do so with little or no reversal or reprimand. It will be Super Delete's finest hour.
if we make this place suck enough then a bunch of people will leave and then we can invite all the cool people back.
I think trying to make it suck will backfire on you, eest. They'll love it even more. :)
Oh, unless you mean suck as in banning, etc.
The cancer angle. Yeah, I've thought about that too.
calamity from the skies!
I should probably point out that this is the Feedback Forum and not the Staff Forum, but you guys look like you're having so much fun. So yeah, this is totally the Staff Forum. Uh...ban newbies...kill spammers...Hail Satan...etc.
What EoFF needs to do is be stricter on the spam that's going on. Might I say that some of it can amusing, but there's too much of it at the moment. In fact, it's horrible. Of course, there isn't a spam forum, but having a spam forum will make things worse. Believe me. If there is one, it will be filled with complete crap that it will go out of control.
So, what does the staff need to do is to get more strict on the spam that's going on in General Chat. What constitutes as spam? We don't know, but I trust the staff will be able to draw the line of what is considered spam. I'm sure that in-thread conversations can be considered spam, posts that would be more suited to PMs, usernotes, and/or IMs, and such.
I'm sure that there will be time to have fun spam, but those should be a once in awhile moments, not a daily thing like it is at the moment. That was the magic back then, we hardly had much spam, and once in awhile, spam happens, and it's special because it doesn't happen very often. Nowadays, it's spam every day 24/7. Why? Because the staff has gone lax on it. Deleting posts will not work, banning people won't either. If you want to slow down the spam, then delete General Chat, (besides some of the important threads or current threads you want to keep), and start over. With the removal of the threads, yes, there will be repeats of the threads, but the staff should be able to now control the spam and get more strict, now that almost all the spam is gone. Yes, this is risky business, and I'm in no way saying you should do this, but if you want to control the spam and keep everything in order, deleting and restarting General Chat will be a good way to start being more strict.
Deleting does not work, Proto. If you could only see the number of deletions you would know this. The only cure is to ban someone once you tell them that that is what will happen to them the next time they do what they were asked not to do. This is a lot easier said than done though because I really don't like to ban people, but sometimes it just has to be done for the good of all.
EDIT: I misread that. :) You said Delete GC and start over. Yeah, that might work. :)
Of course, I also stated deleting posts and banning people will not work. It's a good thing you've already explained why deleting posts won't work, so I can try to explain why banning people won't work. One reason: Second Accounts.
Restarting General Chat, while keeping some of the current and important threads, will be your best bet to control the spam. The members may not like it, but EoFF needs to get rid of the nonsense. If the staff wants to consider this, I suggest that you guys start archiving some of the threads you want to keep forever.
the solution to GC isn't having less bad threads, it's having more good threads. You have to make them. Everyone should spend more time thinking up good GC threads and less time complaining about how much GC sucks. If you can't come up with any good threads, then I guess that's a problem.
But the ratio of bad threads to good threads is getting out of hand. Big D is the only noticable person I believe who is trying to work from the "good threads" side. If the number of "bad threads" were toned down a bit, maybe good threads would get noticed better, than having to resort to another forum.
Maybe
Counter: IP Bans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent Proto
What, exactly, would deleting the whole of General Chat achieve? Great, the old spam is gone, and that's all very well and good, but which of these two scenarios do you honestly believe is the more likely:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey (Dahmer?)[/quote
Scenario A: Spammers, upon seeing the deletion of General Chat, have a revelation. Spam is not tolerated! They have seen the light! Spam is now a dirty word at EoFF, and the ex-spammers all go on to become legendary Cid's Knights.
Scenario B: Old spam gets replaced by new spam. Whoa-ho, problematic!
The problem is that spammers are glorified. A lot of the members think that spam is cool, and that being a spammer is a cool thing, and they all want to get in on the act and look damned cool! Who wouldn't? And therein lies your problem. Spam for the sake of spam or trying to look cool is invariably inferior to spam for the sake of personal enjoyment.
Then perhaps we need to sticky a thread in General Chat made by you saying spamming sucks, oh glorified 2nd placed to Del king of spam
However, deleting old spam wouldnt be half bad to be fairly honest
I'm no tool of the staff or of you, whorekeye! And no I'm actually the Spam Princess and you'd do well to remember that. (self-proclaimed, no less)
I can't see what's good about deleting old spam, although that's not to say there's anything wrong with doing that either.
Also, I like General Chat how it is.
That's because the staff can't do anything with the current spam. But oh, when GC starts over, they can, because they'll be able to implement whatever new rule about spamming into place, because they won't have thousands of threads to worry about.