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One of the forums I frequent has A "Random Chat thread" in the off topic(Or here it would probably be good in the general discussion aria) for spammers to talk about anything that pops in there heads...

the Mods made it sticky so it can always be found, and lock it everytime it reaches 500 pages(i think), then they just make another one named "Random Chat thread #2"....

it seems to help a lot with keeping people on topic in other threads, and it cuts down on useless thread creation. because if your POed about a game/movie/day at work/school, want to show off your new avatar, Feel the Need to tell people a story about something that you seen in the paper, heard on the radio, or seen on TV, or a story about something that happen to you or a friend of yours, or just want to ask a question.(Because all those above topics don't usualy take long to peter-out) all you have to do is post it in the "Random Chat thread", and help keep the forum clean, and organized..

Not every forum needs a specific outlet for discussion that has nothing to do with the general spirit/purpose of the forum.
Keeping our forum clean and organized is as simple and easy as limiting completely off-topic threads to a more generalized website.
We certainly wouldn't want to encourage spamming, now would we?

Sincerely, Regards and Best Wishes,
~ Department of Redundancy Department

Well The “Spammers Thread” Idea wasn't created to “Encourage Spamming”, but was instead created as a way of dealing with it in an organized fashion.

You seem like a smart kid, so I'm sure you know that Trying to snuff-out Spam all together is just the Job for “the Department of Redundancy Department” because its an unwinnable war. There will always be Spammers, Trolls, and the like on the Internet till long after you and I are dead and gone.

The Mods on The forum I mentioned before made “The Random Chat thread” because they knew this fact, and rather then spend all day yelling at forum members, suspending, Banning, arguing with Trolls, ect, ect, ect, and generally wasting time fighting a losing battle They just said “Spams bound to happen, so we ask that it happens here, and not all over the forum.”, and believe it or not it helped...


Keep it brutal...
Midyin..

Point taken, but in case you haven't noticed, Dino and the crew have done quite a job of keeping them out of our neck of the woods so far. We aren't plagued with spambots, and the closest we have to traditional trolls are a couple folks seen as just a bit too enthusiastic over mini-roleplays and the like.

I believe most any prevention/containment methods against trolls, as would any form of drawing attention to them, work as wind does against fire. It extinguishes the small but strengthens the great. Ours is so small that by refusing to call it out, it almost never surfaces.

I'm not saying we need a thread like that here. This place seem pretty orderly. The Mods must run a tight ship..

I just wondered into a Thread about Spam, and mentioned something I've seen work before..

Hmmmm, sounds pretty similar to the forum I was talking about actually. lots of E-thugs..


Hell maybe it is, or Maybe we know each other on another forum by differant Names. one thing I've learned over the years is sometimes The internet is a smaller place then I thought...

Well the difference here is that we are exactly not just any place on the web. And I am very proud of that.
It's a pure-bred furry/scaly/macro/foot-themed bunch of (99% of the time) very mature friends. That doesnt mean there cant be insane headhurting fun, but it usually means there is no kiddie talk, no annoying leet abbreviated chat babbling because the matter and the intended audience clearly are not worth a minute to type properly, and no pointless spam.
If someone doesnt have anything interesting to post or anything to comment on a subject, then they dont post it. Maybe they tell it their life journal or FA friendslist or twitter it, I dont know, but it worked quite well so far and makes this place very enjoyable I think.
I assure you you'll rather end up bored than spammed here anytime soon.

It's the best place.
Cheers.

An E-thug is a D-bag that thinks talking tough means more then two squirts of piss in the internet like a troll, or flamer that threatens violence if you don't give him his own way...

They are the saddest form of E-life cause they're usually an offline bully that doesn't seem to understand that it doesn't matter if they are 7ft tall and 300lbs of pure muscle offline cause they can't threw there wait around, or intimidate people on the web...

Keyboard warriors lol


Also to make this place perfect it needs a bar

Faibanx has a bar. Faibanx has several bars, in fact.

It appears that we now have one of those too....

Shrugs; Shit happens when you party naked I guess...