Drewdelz was saying that yuo would run the risk of being called that by others (not nesseccarily himself).
As for that debate topic, yes, if some people would have taken it seriously. Just because it is hard to debate does not mean that one should spam it.
Wether the world is going to end on Tuesday ... Very serious debate.
If you want a seperate debate about serious world-danger subjects like global warming, that would be debatable. But that topic would have been moved to off topic even if people hadnt trolled and spammed.
Delete the spam section, don't allow spam of any kind here, let them take it to some other shity forum. We don't need it ruining us... I don't see what's so hard about simply having a no-tolerance policy on spam. Someone spams, delete post and warn. Spam again? Ban. Spam again upon return? Permi-ban.
You can't keep it undercontrol because you simple won't try to.
Thats my preference on it.
Hide any blurps from the users to avoid negative influence, and ban if it continues.
But for those who manage to stay on the line, it produces an inaccurate representation of such a members identity on the forums.
If someone insulted me, i would want to know why, for example.
But, i agree that its a more functional formal approach.
Read this post please people ... Dont just dismiss as overworded dribble ;DI'd like some responses..good or bad.
I believe in the idea that having a spam forum does damage the maturity in other boards.
In different forums, and different environments, we each have our own setting in the way we act. Here, you are being asked to act one way, but in the spam forum, looking and feeling the same, with the same people, same colours, same location, you are aksed to act differently.
This doesnt truly work, as there is always a layer of experience and atmosphere within an area, appended into the way you have acted there, which suttely influences the way you behave or feel when back in that or a simliar area.
And example is that you can feel happy at a particular sound, or angry at a particular smell.
..I am particularly affected by these things. Timed, i can answer a maths question many many times faster in my old high school maths classroom than i can anywhere else, as thats how i have built up the impression to do that unique task.
These atmopsheric influences are stronger on males than on females, and moreso on all of us at our teenage hormonal stages.
However, spam cannot simply be removed. It has been tried before, and the following countable anarchy and misplaced spam orgies would be just too much.
Its either got to be atmospherically removed to its own location, style, theme, slowly, OR gradually faded out by increasing rules that -e v e n t u a l l y- turn spam into forum games and then bring it so close to off topic that there is no distinction (this could take many months, and some mechanism to make sure people know of and abide by the rules;this would require stepped significant changes as appose to a perfectly infinitive interpolation towards off topic [from spam] ).
Alternatively, another idea may come up.
