Poseidon wrote:
This is not the military. All of us should not suffer from the actions of few. And especially this drastically.
All, and I mean ALL gaming sites that I go to have an off topic section. They would simply be boring if all they talked about were games. People would slowly leave trackr. We are a community. If we can't talk about things happening in our life and whatnot and current non-serious events in the world, it will simply be a boring site to go on
Says you, who has zero influence over the site. Chuy makes the rules, and so help me if you tards can't keep it together enough to let us have a less serious section I will hunt every one of you down.
In short, if you cannot contain yourself to very liberal limits of spam then leave, because the rest of us like the limits where they are.
DoctaStrangelove wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
DoctaStrangelove wrote:
One of the good ways to reduce spam is to make the forum without the spam interesting enough that people don't feel like they need to spam to have fun. Most of the time spam only takes place on "slow" days where not much is being discussed. BF2s has had much spam in the past time as the site has been slowing down. Trackr won't have much spam for a while as there will be plenty on new things to talk about.
Having a General Discussion area will help limit spam as it gives a place to post just about anything, which is a very broad topic that will never get tired. BF2s's spam stems from the lack of interest in the other topics, it only winds up in the General Discussion subforum because that's where the spammers feel it will be viewed the most as it is the section that stays fresh for the longest. The section itself does not instigate spam, spam just ends up there.
There is lots of logic for having such a section. Why do you think it was continually adjusted/renamed? Think of it like a punishment, not a solution.
But you can't punish an internet community because there is nothing keeping them there. If the community as a whole is punished then all that would do is make people sod off and make new people less likely to join. So all punishing the community accomplishes is damaging the community. To say "We took this away because you were bad" works on kids at home but on the internet where they are not forced to stay there it can only have negative effects.
If there is nothing keeping you here then get the fuck out, don't ruin it for everyone else. If you can find the site interesting and maintaining reasonable levels of spam material, than by all means, please be an interesting member of the community.
You're acting like kids, the powers that be are forced to treat you like kids. Mature members have no problems keeping spam in check.
And as I said, you're right, no one is forcing you to stay here. Perhaps that is one of the ideas behind getting rid of the section, sloughing off all the members who, say, can't go a single day on a brand new website without smudging it up.
