Depessing.

[Meiscool-2]

Bout 40% of the theads one the fist page of All of All ae locked. I know two were locked fo election easons, but it is still depessing.
This will polly get locked too. DISGUESS befoe that happens. Should unmod be bought back? No, but feel fee to suggest that.

[Red Fox]

That Archem should be banned? I don't think he would be too happy about that.

[Ben]

the mayoral threads were closed to keep things organized


the 1000 post game was cloased at the request of the topic starter....that the game itself had run its course and finished.
So thats three

[ZeroKirbyX]

I think we should lay off Archem, it stopped being funny. :/

[Dragonium]

Sage, Not-Spam and 10,000 Posts ran their course and then became filled with spam.

I'm gonna have to take the Responsible Moderator viewpoint here; Unmod had to be killed because people forgot the boundaries and the spam leaked into other places. If we have spam threads, it'll just happen again, the spam will stay there for a bit, people will get used to spamming, and everywhere else will drift off-topic.

It's all very well making a humorous off-topic comment at the end of a serious post, but when the post itself consists of two words and has nothing to do with anything, it makes you wonder.

The mod team are trying to keep the place clean so that we can have positive stuff going on. Say you're playing Harvest Moon - you go outside in the morning and the first thing you do is cut away all the weeds so they don't build up and you can't plant any crops.

Also, the Archem thing started off as a joke, folks just took it seriously.

[Osmose]

...why was Sage closed, again?

[Dragonium]

It drifted off-topic (I'm not entirely sure it had a suitable topic to start with), I posted, when I came back to it about 10 minutes later it was locked.

By a mysterious benefactor who might have been Bluhman.

[Djanki]

....Well, this drought of good posts'll probably pass. It is only Tuesday...

[Ben]

It drifted off-topic (I'm not entirely sure it had a suitable topic to start with), I posted, when I came back to it about 10 minutes later it was locked.

By a mysterious benefactor who might have been Bluhman.

you've just answered a rhetorical question dude.

[Dragonium]

you've just answered a rhetorical question dude.

And that's a shame.

But still, once people get the message that spam doesn't need to be posted in a serious thread everything will be fine. Hopefully.

[Fisherson]

I didn't see any spam in "not spam",personally.I mean how is"Quick post somthing relevent!"
,considered spam?

[Bluhman]

"Quick post somthing relevent!"

Relevant to what? Thing is, the only way that thread could've gone was downhill.

[Fisherson]

Relevant to what? Thing is, the only way that thread could've gone was downhill.

Maybe,I still would have liked to see what whould have happed.
I mean I had a similar idea to archem's a while back.
About creating athread where it was ok to post what ever you wanted.
I mean,dosn't the rules say that the author can change the threads topic?
I think i read that some where.

[Archem]

The idea (which I decided to not elaborate on) was to create a thread where the topic could shift. So many threads go off-topic because one post leads to another, and the topic starts to shift severely. The topic doesn't really become spam, but the whole point is altered. I wanted to try and make something where that would be alright.

But then the Bluh killed it.

That's alright. I figure most people wouldn't know what I was up to, and it might have degraded into spam by the end of the page.

OMG, this page is already starting to shift! We're not lamenting over the depressing lock-spree!

[Dragonium]

I mean I had a similar idea to archem's a while back.
About creating athread where it was ok to post what ever you wanted.
I mean,dosn't the rules say that the author can change the threads topic?
I think i read that some where.

You're not getting it. We had a place where you could post whatever you wanted. It was called Unmod. But the whole point of it was ruined because people forgot the boundaries between Unmod and the rest of the forum, and the spam started to leak out.

If you have a spam thread or any kind of area where spam is allowed, then the spam is almost encouraged, and it's going to spread. We can't have that.

As I've said, it's fine to put an off-topic sentence or two at the end of an on-topic post. It's not okay to post "lol" to boost your post count.