The Xennic theorum of Spamography

[Xen]

didnt know if this should be put in site feed back, or off topic, as it touches on my somtimes less then good philosophies (I've got brilliant teachers, but I'm still a teen...), but it has to do with spam, so i figured that site feedback would be better, as OT is likelly to spam this thread with stupid things, and get it deleted, so, here is my wondeful little theory

point one- as we all know, spammy posts are both locked, and eventually deleted by our Mods

point two- the deletion of these threads also nullify all post count additions in said thread

point three- post count is a major factor in spamming (who here wasnt eager to get 300 posts and get a custum avatar, aside from TF)

the beef of the post-

well, taking in these "facts", and using a little cheap philosiphy, i have come to the conclusion that, people who knowinglly spam a new thread into existence to get a higher post count (perhaps to gain the avatar of there dreams, unless that avatar is a dancing banana...) are not in fact spamming, as there posts will eventually be nullified- dose this mean the post in question should not be delted- nope, go ahead, I just dont think they should be admonished as severlly

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

It takes quite a bit of spamming to qualify for 'admonishment'. Usually spam threads are just closed to stop the spamming, and may not likely be deleted just because of that fact.

However, signatures that are too long, such as yours, are the real reason we ban people.

 

[SunTzu]

spam goood

 

[Xen]

how much should it be shortend then?

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumRules.shtml

5 lines of normal sized text (including blank lines)

 

[Xen]

okay, i thought it meant 5 written lines.... I'll change a bit later if thats Okay with you- I have things to attend to a little later...

 

[barron of ideas]

If a spam falls in the forrest, does it make a noise?

That's not quite what Bishop Berkely asked, I think it was about a tree, but the answer at CFC is I think, NO. Spamming for post count does not normally work. Your Moderators see to that, almost all the time. I almost wrote your friendly moderators, then decided that this thread would certainly be considered spam if I did. Almost all discussions of Mods is spam. Have you noticed? Ot at the very least, the thread gets closed. And of course they are right, there is no point going there. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or is it Mods?

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

Originally posted by Xen
okay, i thought it meant 5 written lines.... I'll change a bit later if thats Okay with you- I have things to attend to a little later...

Certainly. Signature length is a very minor concern, just something we point out when noticed.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Xen
well, taking in these "facts", and using a little cheap philosiphy, i have come to the conclusion that, people who knowinglly spam a new thread into existence to get a higher post count (perhaps to gain the avatar of there dreams, unless that avatar is a dancing banana...) are not in fact spamming, as there posts will eventually be nullified- dose this mean the post in question should not be delted- nope, go ahead, I just dont think they should be admonished as severlly

Huh? You're saying that since the posts will eventually be deleted, they shouldn't be deleted?

 

[barron of ideas]

I'm not sure that's what he meant to say, but I agree, that is what he said.

 

[Xen]

take it how you want too, its a philosophical point, and your meant to come to your own conclusions about it- I just like my title

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by SunTzu
spam goood

No. I will type the CFC position very slowly to make it easy to read.

Spam baaadddd. Poster not do bad spam thing, or maybe ban thing will happen to poster.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

All threads will eventually be archived and deleted anyways, a few years down the road. Notice how the very senior posters are slowly losing PC over time.

We're just hastening the process a little...

 

[Xen]

hmmmmm, never noticed that before- dose that mean, lets say that I stopped going to CFC tomorrow, didt vist for 3 years, then came back, and had no posts to my name, would I still have a custum avatar & title?

 

[Bootstoots]

IIRC, yes, you would. Don't know if you'd be able to change them though.

BTW, why are old threads archived and deleted? I like going back and viewing the site's early history.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Bootstoots
BTW, why are old threads archived and deleted? I like going back and viewing the site's early history.

To save space.

'Tis unfortunate that it has to happen, but server space isn't free.

 

[Xen]

lets have a fund raiser so we can buy CFC a full server hardware thing- we then can have a share in a complete new server cobglomerate as we rent out the the extra space to other sites- instead of banning people, mods can threaten to "nullify there share", if they have one

 

[Perfection]

Perhaps all the test could be saved in a downloadable .txt file! That way all our crappy old posts will be preserved forever!

 

[Bootstoots]

Originally posted by WillJ
To save space.

'Tis unfortunate that it has to happen, but server space isn't free.

Oh well, perhaps they can selectively choose old spam threads that have little meaning...I still want to be able to see the site's history.

 

[Xen]

My new and improved sig has now been mod approved!