Are you doing that thing where you only read the first two sentences of someone's post again?
What the fuck is wrong with our posters?
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Are you doing that thing where you only read the first two sentences of someone's post again?
Uh oh... I hope not.
Only for the positions taken, not for the effort put into the posts themselves.
The reason you get the more entertaining discussion is because the main site doesn't RSS feed the Wrestling Spam Zone, just the non-spam wrestling sections. If we were to change the rules, that would change, and you would see a MUCH different tone of quality between the Wrestling Spam Zone and the main forums.
I still don't give points for effort. If I did, guys like Sign Guy and Ferbian wouldn't be on my shit list.
I'm giving Nick the points for reaching this conclusion.
I don't believe we said the same thing, but whatever floats your boat.I'm giving Nick the points for reaching this conclusion.
I'm not saying the Wrestling Spam Zone would go down in quality. I think it would stay the same. What I'm saying is that you would not have the same level of quality in the main sections as you do in the Wrestling Spam Zone, which means your evidence of a strong Wrestling Spam Zone will not transfer to a strong main forums with no spam rules.
If that's what Nick said, then so be it. But I wasn't under that impression.
You know what would be great? If a compromise of a forum existed where posters can post both spam and non-spam, separated into different sections. Thus giving posters the best of both worlds. All they would have to do is follow those rules.
Oh, wait...
I was thinking that if the main sections were the same as the WSZ, there'd be no reason for a WSZ. And that makes me a sad puppy.
Hold me, son. Come give your pa a hug.
Gotcha. You're right in that there wouldn't be a need for it, but it's not really what I was getting at.
That's the best I'm willing to do.
Pepe Silvia
Occasional Pre-Show
How is this a bad thing
On the forum Coco and I used to post, that was known as the CM Punk. He'll understand. And if not, I just explained it to him. Everyone wins.
Didn't say it was, just that it was a much more difficult thing than we have now.
I hope the implication isn't that you'd drink a glass of Phil Brooks' semen just to appease Coco. Actually, I kind of do.
Pepe Silvia
Occasional Pre-Show
It doesn't really seem difficult as it does more time consuming. Stricter rules = more spam (If people can't comprehend how incredibly lax the rules are now, I'm sure the spam would increase threefold) = more moderating = moderators needing to spend more time infracting/cleaning and less time posting.
Then again, there could just have been a hardcoded text limit or something, but when anything above 2 paragraphs is "tl;dr" for some people, maybe the forum is better off like this.
Little Jerry Lawler
Sigmund Freud On Ritalin And Roids
You can compose a good non-spam post with just two sentences. Paragraphs are just buffers for fluff. Get the point across.
Big Nick Dudley
Nick
This man speaks the truth.
I believe I remember Sly campaigning for more lenient spam rules. Through the fog of memory I suspect if you held both discussions up against one another you would discover an amusing inconsistency somewhere.
I sometimes used to make non-spam threads. I used to put loads of effort into the opening post, we're talking mini essays here. I don't think one of them ever made it beyond its second page, and some of these threads weren't even about Lou Thesz.
A big picture of CM Punk's face will ultimately draw roughly the same amount of debate as a crafted 300 word introduction, and oftentimes will draw considerably better than a mega-essay on the subject.
The only real reason to draw a distinction is intellectual snobbery. Then again, as an intellectual snob I'm 100% in favor of this. Make the spam rules harsher.
These days I post in the spam sections in order to avoid spam.
Crazy.
I sometimes used to make non-spam threads. I used to put loads of effort into the opening post, we're talking mini essays here. I don't think one of them ever made it beyond its second page, and some of these threads weren't even about Lou Thesz.
A big picture of CM Punk's face will ultimately draw roughly the same amount of debate as a crafted 300 word introduction, and oftentimes will draw considerably better than a mega-essay on the subject.
The only real reason to draw a distinction is intellectual snobbery. Then again, as an intellectual snob I'm 100% in favor of this. Make the spam rules harsher.
These days I post in the spam sections in order to avoid spam.
Crazy.
Little Jerry Lawler
Sigmund Freud On Ritalin And Roids
Will's and Tenta's posts were cures for insomnia.
Nate DaMac
Fuck erbody but me
Pfft. I could read Tenta's shit all day and be thoroughly intrigued the whole time.
A long post doesn't bother met at all, but you have to break it up into paragraphs. If you have everything in one big block of words, I'm skipping past it.
A long post doesn't bother met at all, but you have to break it up into paragraphs. If you have everything in one big block of words, I'm skipping past it.
Mac Attack
I'm neat.
Damn
Little Jerry Lawler
Sigmund Freud On Ritalin And Roids
Capitalization of threads irritates me more than anything and how 95% of folks can't spell "feud"
Not inconsistent, I used to want the same thing Coco wants now. When I was campaigning for such a thing, there were others who wanted to leave things the way they were. We eventually pitched it to Shocky and IC25, and they went for a more lenient spam rule. Over time, we've refined the spam rule to what I now think is the perfect compromise between the old way and the way I used to want and Coco now wants.
You're talking about YEARS of time. During these years of time, I think we've come up with just about the perfect system possible, one where everyone can find something to post about, in the manner they want to post.