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  1. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Legally? Sure! You may also notice a running theme here where I refer to the forums as an entity unto itself. Forum Games is a low-hanging symptom of something nobody really wants to fix. Hence the futility.
  2. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Because your stance means nothing is forbidden. What's wrong with posting spam? You can ignore it if you don't like it. What's wrong with posting porn? You can ignore it if you don't like it. What's wrong with posting the pain series? You can ignore it if you don't like it. What's wrong...
  3. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Is it? I'm sure seeing a lot of arguments along the lines of "what harm does it do if you don't look at it?" -- and what harm does spam do if I never look at it! I was going to reply to everything, but this rather well summarizes my main problem with the opposition's main counterpoint. "You...
  4. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    The lag is a red herring being used as a convenient practical excuse. The issue here is the quality of the forums. Posting useless garbage does not improve the forums (and is, in fact, actually against the rules). People using "but it's fun!!" and "you can just ignore it" and "what harm does...
  5. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    If people liked posting "monkey" over and over in a thread tens of thousands of times, would you ardently defend that on the basis that people should be allowed and even encouraged to do things just because they like them? See my grand post on the previous page.
  6. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    THE GAME is numbers. If you want to talk about something, well, that's what forums are for! If you just want idle chatter, use IRC or IM! A boring game thread used to disguise idle chattering is even worse.
  7. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games They're all just threads. The only difference is the title of the forum. Really! Let's look at the first page of Forum Games. I am going to bet right now that the majority of these don't depend on anyone else actually playing -- i.e., every "player" is...
  8. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games It legitimizes posting nonsense. It's not going to literally overflow and spew forth over everywhere else, but if users are outright encouraged to post garbage in a specific forum, I find it hard to believe that they won't be more inclined (or less opposed)...
  9. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games Exactly. Forums are for discussion. It shows that the forums are full of crap. It took me a minute to really figure out where you're coming from here, because I've been on the intertubes for a good decade now and this is a very basic concept to me. And...
  10. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games She is the most frequent poster in the biggest (spam) thread on the forums. The person in second place has half the posts. This is a fact, and one I found very telling. My opinion of her is irrelevant.
  11. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games Har. It's entirely possible. To get to the last page (862 or so) of that thread, the database first has to find the first 861 pages so it can skip over them. That's a little harder than just grabbing the first ones it finds. I've known vB forums that...
  12. Eevee

    On Removing Clutter

    Re: On Stupid Threads in Forum Games 33%, actually! And 8% of the entire forum is contained within US Vs. The World, the point of which seems to be merely fighting back and forth over a counter that doesn't mind when the same person counts twice. Or 3700 times, in the case of Arylett. One in...
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