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Get rid of the Spam Pit; A suggestion
Topic Started: Mar 31 2008, 01:10 PM (1,000 Views)
Kaizer009
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remove the holy pit of spam? never. Where else would you put some of the craziest stuff you know... like spam. people may need to post stuff like "SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM" etc and they need a place to do it. Getting rid of the psam pit would be like... getting rid of spam from the internet! Its not possible and not right :P
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The most useless, annoying piece of crap on this forum at your humble service.


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Master Adam
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and here i am thinking this place is full of civilized and well-matured people.
However... an opinion is an opinion.
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Well a lot of people are voting no now so if they manage a comeback it might actually stay.

Before Lathoan's Spam Attack and Adam's win game, the spam pit was hardly in use so why want to keep it when you hardly use it?
Alex,Dec 28 2008
12:40 AM
Is that a challenge? Have you not seen the Youtube footage of me? At my family New Year's Eve party, where I mercilessly chased my four year old cousin around in a drunken rage, attempted to hit him with a plastic, illuminating lightsaber whilst yelling 'Piņata, piņata!', before tripping over my own pair of slippers and falling over, crushing the fleeing juvenile as I did so? Well, neither have I.


Let's make cancer feel foolish!

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Master Adam
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perhaps the spam pit is only accessible to banned members?
how awesome and vile would that be?
banish them to Die Grösse Spam-Grübe

sounds like Alcatrez already :)
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Ariakas
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I say, alright move it, but it served good purpose in moving spam-threads instead of just deleting them.
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Lord Sunnycool
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Ariakas, you mean remove it, right?

And I just think that people can be allowed to have fun - even silly discussions in TWC without having to call it spam. If you really need to get your spamming fix, go on another site. If you want to have silly discussions, where people do not double post, single-word post or flame each other, it is fine in the Off Topic forum (as long as such silly threads are few and far between).

Sounds like a compromise?
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Not really; I'm sure you understand that if I want to flame someone, I will flame them. If there is no spam pit for this, then what? Am I supposed to PM-bomb them instead? Or just keep getting myself warned? :rolleyes:

Seriously though, I will be pissed off if you delete the actually informative parts of my spam attack <_<
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Jimjjo
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What informative parts?

If you wanted to inform people about Nightwish why didn't you make a topic in Music and tell everyone what happened at your concert?
Alex,Dec 28 2008
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Is that a challenge? Have you not seen the Youtube footage of me? At my family New Year's Eve party, where I mercilessly chased my four year old cousin around in a drunken rage, attempted to hit him with a plastic, illuminating lightsaber whilst yelling 'Piņata, piņata!', before tripping over my own pair of slippers and falling over, crushing the fleeing juvenile as I did so? Well, neither have I.


Let's make cancer feel foolish!

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Lord Sunnycool
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Exactly - why did you not post your informative things in Music where it belongs?

And you should not flame anyone at all, Lathaon! Why the fuck would you want to flame someone for the sake of it? Why do we need a place where people can flame at will? I seriously do not see the point in it.
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1) By informative, I mean the parts which were not either flaming the other members, irrelevant to the topic, or statements such as "for the win", etc, which don't really tell anyone anything which could not be said in just one sentence, in one topic.

2) Why bother, when I had already made so many separate topics and could then make things more specific?

I'm getting fed up of answering your loaded questions already.

EDIT: I flame people when they irritate me sufficiently for me to decide they are worth the effort.
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Lord Sunnycool
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They will not be deleted. I never said I would delete them. They would go to the archives.

Why spam about your concert experience in the first place when there are places to discuss that sort of stuff properly?
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Lathaon
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I was really that hyper at the time...

It's not so bad if they are archived, but I'd still rather keep a place of such freedom.
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Lord Sunnycool
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The poll will decide its fate.
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I actually think Lathaon is being harshly treated. Not by everyone, don't get my wrong. But he posted what, about 20 topics in the Spam Pit. I'd understand if he was posting it in News and Info but the Spam Pit does exactly what it says on the tin. There is no post count, and it isn't harming anyone. If people don't like it so much, then why are they reading the posts in the first place?

Look, I'm not taking sides and I am certainly not pointing the finger at anyone, but I think this has been taken out of proportion. Yeah, Lathaon decided to make a load of topics which are pointless IMO. But its in the Spam Pit, which isn't exactly meant for serious, political debates or such. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I merely think people have overreacted to a harmless act of spam in the Spam Pit. Why such a big deal?
chadden, Oct 15 2008
12:16 PM
HIC, I demand that you bludgeon yourself with a rock until your mental status returns to the level of a rapist who calls back to apologise! Your use of elaborate language and words is making me uneasy. Although, I am somewhat relieved to see that your punctuation remains shit-based.
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Lord Sunnycool
Apr 1 2008, 06:22 PM
Exactly - why did you not post your informative things in Music where it belongs?

And you should not flame anyone at all, Lathaon! Why the fuck would you want to flame someone for the sake of it? Why do we need a place where people can flame at will? I seriously do not see the point in it.

I think it is important to realise that spamming is as valid a form of expression as a normal, sordid conversation. If you find yourself in the hights of musical excess such as Lathaon apparently was then it is all the more liberating to spam about it in a radical and extrovertical manner (I may just have invented that word suckers) as opposed to simply talk about it.

As for flaming...well, some can see the joyous internet drama to be had from it whilst others can't.
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chadden
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The Spam Pit does not affect post count, but it does give people freedom to post whatever they want. If people don't like the Spam Pit, then the solution is simple; don't go into that forum. As long as there are members who enjoy the freedom offered by the Spam Pit then it should not be deleted.

Also, it doesn't seem very classy of you Sunny to swear at Lathaon when you are not only trying to argue against flaming, but you were also very firm about not using the word 'fuck' towards other members when we discussed removing the filter.
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Master Adam
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ah but think of this younglings, a cursive, flamed or insulting discussion in spam pit can so, so, so very easily spill over into regular discussions if the opportunity sees fit.
I'll give one good example, Lathaon did the 'wrong' thing as many of you seem to say and it has already blown into an argument on the outside. So imagine how much worse it could be
be rid of the spam pit!
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I disagree. Arguments are inevitable and would seep into 'regular' discussions even if the spam pit was gone, probably even more so due to lack of aggression venting which the pit seems to provide.

Also, Frosted Butts.
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Master Adam
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how about this?
what if sunny makes a link to another forum?
i'll even make the forum, just for a spam pit.
it will be related to white council in every way
just without rules?

p.s besides, i like making forums ^_^
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You're suggesting making a whole new forum to serve the exact purpose of a forum we already have?
"Stand against me if you must, for of course you will. Conflict is just another part of this flawed reality. You need to cling to your concepts and purposes, your feeble honour and glory. None of it serves any purpose in the end. And the end draws close." - Krodalis Thaendil.

"It really is amazing; she killed Kelan Wealer, not that I am complaining, but then the order welcomed her as their new leader. It makes one wonder if I were to ram a blade down her throat, would the monks then follow my commands?" - Mordain Thaendil.

One of the Last Guardians. Suck it.
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