A (somewhat humorous) solution to STOP spam!

[Apathetic Dreamer]

And if it DOES work, it pretty much WILL stop it.

Although i don't think it will work, it'd be a tough job to script.

When a thread turns to spam, one of you admins, can, instead of CLOSING the thread, label it a spam thread. Once a thread is tagged as a spam thread (through some as of yet unwritten script) Everypost after that will instead SUBTRACT a post count instead of ADD to it. It'd still be possible to post, but it would reduce instead of add.

I doubt it's even possible, but wouldn't it be funny?

[Geography Dan]

it would be funnier if the admins did that without announcing it...

[Comrade Dan]

No, it would really piss me off.

The OT was never 100% serious discussion. And I think that the place would go down pretty fast if there were no humourous spam...

[tonic]

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</font>The OT was never 100% serious discussion. And I think that the place would go down pretty fast if there were no humourous spam...
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Shouldn't that be "the place would go down pretty fast if there were no humourous discussion which need not be spam. I would then not feel excluded from the thread because I was not a member of the clique, says the eavesdropper passing by.

[Urban Ranger]

But it's not always that way, connor. A thread could contain spam in the middle, then became somewhat serious again. So I don't think this is a fair way of going about it.

[MarkG]

so many times, so many people have said that this place would go down if something happened... and proved damn wrong!

[Comrade Dan]

Look at it this way - every type of person plays Civ 2. Republican, communist, asian, european, young, old, etc. They all have different tastes in playing Civ, in the way they lead their lives, an the way they talk.

To discriminate against one group of civers is simply abhorrent. Why not go the full distance, and discriminate against the Finns, or have it so that only posters with Greek and Canadian proxies can post?

[Hueij]

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</font>Why not go the full distance, and discriminate against the Finns, or have it so that only posters with Greek and Canadian proxies can post?
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Because they don't annoy the hell out of the rest us every other thread with "funny" remarks.

[Apathetic Dreamer]

UR: True, very true. Plus it'd be too easy to interrupt discussions then. The mods would take a thread as a spam thread, and then the discussion would stop. So anyone, could effectively cause lots of REALLY irritating stuff just by spamming alot.


Comrade Dan: There is a BIG difference between humor and spam. If you don't know the difference, then that's your problem.

[Comrade Dan]

thus spoke Apathetic Dreamer...King of the Bobs and minesweeper times...

*AP's face goes red*

also, sig test, hope it works.

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"It is not a figure of speech, it is a mere statement of fact to say that a French cook will spit in the soup - that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment. When a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook's inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb around

[Comrade Dan]

DAMM IT!

For anyone intrested in the full signature...

"It is not a figure of speech, it is a mere statement of fact to say that a French cook will spit in the soup - that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment. When a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook's inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb around the dish and licks it to taste the gravy, runs it round and licks again, then steps back and contemplates the piece of meat like an artist judging a picture, then presses it lovingly into place with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning. When he is satisfied, he takes a cloth and wipes his fingerprints from the dish, and hands it to the waiter. And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy - his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running though his brilliantined hair. Whenever one pays more than, say, ten francs for a dish of meat in Paris, one may be certain that it has been fingered in this manner. In very cheap restaurants it is different; there, the same trouble is not taken over the food, and it is just forked out of the pan and flung on a plate, without handling. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it."

Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell.

[Gary]

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so many times, so many people have said that this place would go down if something happened... and proved damn wrong!
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What you mean is that it's been a while since someone started a "Apolyton isn't what it used to be" thread.

[Paul Hanson]

How about doing what they do with drugs; legalise it! If spamming was considered OK, people would fast get bored of it. (Probably).

[MarkG]

yeah right

[Ming]

Paul Hanson... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA! That's the funniest thing I've heard today