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« Reply #97 on: July 21, 2008, 10:20:34 pm »
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It is amusing though when you think about it. How many times has this been tried, the idea of encouraging growth in other areas? The Spam board had a fee of entry, limited entry, and did not fully distract from the other boards as users in Spam posted elsewhere as well. To the staff who have to look at the board, it is going to look like a void simply because it has more activity. It is deceiving to find its effects so significant went a large number of users could not even have looked into the board. The activity of the Spam board was strictly based on the lack of thought, the other boards in themselves are inherently slow to post in due to intelligence. It was only popular amongst those who knew it because it was a quicker community feeling.
New users due to all of the existing limitations on the Spam board had no real chance of getting access to see it, and a lot of Spam members were those who would not commit to fan games or development anyway. By this means, it was for the most part controlled. There are other forums that do have Spam boards although the are arguably less stupid. I would suggest merging Spam with Forum Games and having some set rules in Spam to account for violations that may be happening with the global community rules. Why merge it with Forum Games? Well I peppered in this preposition because this will not be read and because it would dull some of the idiocy of Spam as well as getting something like Forum Games into an area in which it would not have to be seen.
In terms of development though, it is really simple. If you want to be a voice of change, you have to embody that change. If you want development to get better, you have to get better. I am trying to get better. Meh.
I think the merging of Forum Games with Spam is a decent idea, actually; sort of a more relaxed conversation area where obvious joke topics or ATTN: user topics could be posted such as in Spam.
That being said, I still think the layout was fine as it was.
No way. Don't merge the boards, just make it a child board of spam.
I was rather happy with my original idea of having the spam board be just an open topicality board where people could post without being modded. it would have been better if you guys didn't just slap spam on it for the name when the board first started out. When the board first started it actually had good topics (even mammy initially agreed), but CERTAIN PEOPLE saw spam in the name and decided that posting redundant 4chan things was ok. I didn't mind people posting random topics like what Sharon just said a few posts ago, because stuff like that is entertaining. The only thing I don't care for is random sticky topics and stupid redundant posts that actually are just pure spam.
TLDR: bring back that original idea I discussed with mammy when I first told him to make that board
I would quite agree. I think the things that don't belong in Spam are "Over 9000!" and stuff. I think lolcats are funny if they make sense, but random pictures are not funny. Make it like Other Discussion, but primarily for joking around. As long as we limit the amount of topics made(as a community, not by deletion or something like that) and keep it relatively light hearted, but not stupid, then I think it would be okay. There are certain things in ZFGC we mention, like "lol Sharon is a gurl" and "lol, Source is manly" that don't amount to anything, but god are they entertaining. If I had access to the Spam board right now, I would try and find a few topics that are okay, and the ones that aren't...but I can't...*cough*
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