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List thread chaos

June 3rd 2005, 08:50 AM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Maybe it is just me, but I don't like all of the new 'list' threads. The "You've played Dink too much one" was fine, because I could easily ignore it, and some entries were actually kind of funny. But now there are like 7 of them.

I'm really, really tempted to just close all of these list threads and prohibit them in the future.

So I'm wondering if anyone else agrees with me. If it seems like a good share of the community likes them, I'll shut up and put up with it.
June 3rd 2005, 09:44 AM
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dinkme
Peasant He/Him India
 
Its actually spamming making threads of the same type."You have played dink too much when is fine".
June 3rd 2005, 10:11 AM
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Simeon
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. 
The only serious list thread was the "You've played Dink too much" one, the ones made by Chaotic and DinkKiller are rather pointless. The Dink one makes sense but the others don't, mainly because any random event could be turned into such thread. You could create some variations on the Dink one (like "You've created too many D-Mods when..") but anything else is kinda boring. And it's not like I'm waiting for this variation that I just mentioned to be created either
June 3rd 2005, 10:46 AM
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magicman
Peasant They/Them Netherlands duck
Mmmm, pizza. 
I click on the threads if they are marked *new*, realise what I'm looking at, and quickly press backspace.
June 3rd 2005, 11:15 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
EX-TER-MI-NATE! EX-TER-MI-NATE!

No, seriously, the initial one is enough. More than enough.
June 3rd 2005, 11:47 AM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Alrighty, I closed them. If anyone has any convincing objections, Tal or myself can always re-open them.
June 3rd 2005, 11:48 AM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
"You've had one too many knocks on the head when..."

1) You start creating topics like DinkKiller and Chaotic do.

Yes. Wipe them all.
June 3rd 2005, 12:15 PM
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Ha. Reminds me of point-whoring.
June 3rd 2005, 02:45 PM
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Chaotic
Peasant He/Him
 
Alright, we'll stop.

I've been chaotic enough for today.

EDIT: Well, DinkKiller started doing it and I decided to join in the fun, but I still did it. --DELETED--
June 3rd 2005, 07:35 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Eh, don't worry about it. I am annoyed by many things, and I'm sure that everybody's annoyed with me about something.

The only difference is I have control
June 3rd 2005, 11:16 PM
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Chaotic
Ghost They/Them
 
I just don't wanna be known as 'Chaotic the spammer'.
June 4th 2005, 12:09 AM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Posting a lot is a generally good thing, if you put some effort into what you post.

Spamming is posting a *lot* of 'bad' messages: (things that don't make sense, difficult to understand, 'me too' comments, poor grammar, insults, etc).

I understand that a good share of posters have English as a second language, or were dropped on their heads as children, so 'bad' posts in low quantity is accepted and understandable. But if you post 5 messages in every single thread, and you don't seem to be even trying to improve... that's spamming. Or at least, that's what I think of it as.

I'm not sure what everyone else thinks, but I don't consider you a spammer.
June 4th 2005, 01:32 AM
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Kory
Peasant He/Him Croatia
 
Redink1 you can be annoyed? How? I never annoyed you!
I suggest making a trash board for throwing in old/trash posts.
June 4th 2005, 07:55 AM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
That would be pointless. Just turn on view deleted posts and you can read them all you want.
June 4th 2005, 10:38 AM
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Tal
Noble He/Him United States
Super Sexy Tal Pal 
me 2
June 4th 2005, 08:20 PM
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Chaotic
Peasant He/Him
 
Ha! You staff can't hide anything from us!
June 5th 2005, 12:14 AM
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DinkKiller
Peasant He/Him United States
The world could always use more heroes 
lol
June 5th 2005, 03:49 AM
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some of those threads are very annoying and i think a few of them were mine
kill then kill them all
June 5th 2005, 01:45 PM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Well THAT was pointless.
Spamming in this anti-spamming thread! Woo!
June 5th 2005, 02:24 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
Eh, it wasn't *that* pointless.

On another note, the best defense against a suspected spammer is to not respond. If things get out of hand, a moderator can delete a message or close a thread.
June 6th 2005, 12:06 AM
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Tal
Noble He/Him United States
Super Sexy Tal Pal 
And that's great advice. Too bad noone ever heeds it