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Flismflop
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08 May 2007, 11:07 pm

I tried using the Random forum for my topics, but the onslaught of "Post a random [lie, truth, etc] about [the above person, the next person, your cat, etc]", "What is your cat doing right now?" chat-style threads always bury them relatively fast. It seems very much like that Monty Python sketch, where no one can have a conversation, due to all the "Spam spam spam" going on.

Would it be possible to keep the Random forum the way it is, but have a forum seperate from it, for meaningful discussions that people will actually be able to follow?


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08 May 2007, 11:41 pm

Frankly, given that we have a games forum,
I wish most of that stuff would just end up
in there.



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08 May 2007, 11:57 pm

calandale wrote:
Frankly, given that we have a games forum,
I wish most of that stuff would just end up
in there.

I wouldn't mind if that stuff disappeared completely. However, with a forum title like "Random", I think people feel encouraged to post randomly.

Another thing I'd like to see is Video Games seperated from Sports. But one request at a time.


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09 May 2007, 6:46 am

Flismflop wrote:
Ichat-style threads always bury them relatively fast. It seems very much like that Monty Python sketch, where no one can have a conversation, due to all the "Spam spam spam" going on.


Very few of my threads are very popular. I think thats a result of me not coming up with popular ideas. But one thing I'm not going to do is try to create some mechanism were people are forced to have to see my threads for one second longer than they want to.



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09 May 2007, 8:09 am

its all spam round here son.
you can be sure any post which you may think is serious is going to get hijacked
but dont worry about it, it's life and life only



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09 May 2007, 8:11 am

Flismflop wrote:
Another thing I'd like to see is Video Games seperated from Sports. But one request at a time.


how many forums do you want ?
keep seperating them and sooner or later they are all empty {}