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This forum needs chemo

Teenage Angst said:
A forum is all about expressing one's thoughts and interacting with other people. By trying to get a certain thread closed when it really hasn't broken any laws, you are attempting to deny someone the right of free speech. If you don't like a certain thread, ignore it. As Butterfree said; you can laugh at or curse the posters who post in the thread at your discretion. Not everyone needs to know that you're bored of the current topic being discussed.
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Pretty much that. If you're going to complain, at least TRY not to waste other people's time with pointless threads like this. If you are going to complain about the Forums directly, maybe you should go and join/make a different Forums. Oh, and backtalking the Admin isn't the best idea. :/
 
Uh, what? You were just saying that I'm apparently stopping the mods from doing anything about this spam you're referring to. I'm asking you to remind me which spam you're referring to because I don't remember anything I've specifically told them not to close recently off the top of my head. I don't quite see what whether we use the word "spam" or "thread" has to do with it.
 
Threads that are copy+pasted from /b/ are not threads. /b/ is not a forum. Insanity is not /b/, no matter how much people can try. I have to tolerate stupid users. They'll always be around; this is a pokemon forum. I won't tolerate people that think they're really hip and cool for making a post filled with lolcats. No way. The great chain is slipping away from you, perhaps it's time to give it a tug.

(dramatic voice aside I want the "You laugh you lose" threads and spinoffs to be locked for spam and furthermore I'd like to take another opportunity to laugh at Teenage Angst and Lord Shyguy. INTERNETS IS DEMOCRACIES :D)
 
...To be honest, it's only the You Laugh You Lose spinoffs that annoy me. The original has never failed to cheer me up when I get depressed, but the spinoffs I will not hesitate to call spam. >>

So yeah. :/
 
Or in other words, you want a thread you personally think is stupid to be locked because you absolutely can't ignore it for some reason.

There is no reason to think a thread for posting funny pictures is spam. It has potential for entertainment value, whether you like it or not. Whether you personally find all the pictures posted in it lame and unfunny or whether /b/ is a forum has nothing to do with whether or not it is spam.

Again, I cannot see why you have such a hard time just ignoring that thread. In fact, you can filter out the entire Insanity forum with a couple of clicks in your user profile if you don't want to see it.
 
The spinoffs are awful, but I don't really mind about a fourth of You Laugh You Lose. lolcats are rarely funny; demotivators are only sometimes funny; anything snagged off of failblog is automatically not funny because of the freaking "FAIL" written on it; and who cares about youtube links. But I don't really see why there's so many threads devoted to "LOOK AT THIS LINK I FOUND" or "COPYPASTA GOES HERE". :/
 
Jeez Feralig8tr, with all the stuff you've said about Butterfree, I'm suprised you aren't banned yet.
 
Well, there's only one spinoff really. The cuteness thread. I like seeing cute things.

But the Ask ________ are annoying and should be locked....oh, you mean they already have.
 
Feralig8tr said:
Why ban users, we can just ignore them!
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ONOES, I THINK THIS THREAD IS REALLY FUCKING STUPID. THEREFORE IT MUST BE CLOSED AND YOU BANNED FOR STARTING IT.

That thread is not doing any harm to anyone. In fact it is entertaining one hell of a lot of people. There is no good reason it should be closed, and repeating "IT IS CANCER LOLZ" is not a reason. Deal with it.
 
It is spam.

Try enforcing the rules you wrote for once. And stop overdramatizing my already overdramatic flavor text. The threads are spam, they break the rules. Considering how much crying you do about reading the rules to every new member, I should think you'd have the wits to enforce them.
 
Why is "spam" even remotely bad (let alone ban-worthy) if people are enjoying it?

Not trying to take sides here, I'd just like to have some things clarified.
 
No. Sorry, but it does not become so no matter how much you wish it to be.

Spam is defined in the rules as a post or thread that is of no real value. A whole bunch of people enjoy the You Laugh, You Lose thread; thus it is not spam. If you want to use some other definition of spam personally, you can do that, but this is the definition that is actually against the rules.
 
gee Teenage Angst it sure is can't use your main account in here. WHOA INTERNET TOUGH GUYS

Butterfree, I'd keep arguing, but I've come to realize that for all your sucking off the rules, you just seem to give in to whichever side complains the most. So I'm going to keep complaining, and eventually people will see things my way, then I'll get you to fold like paper.
 
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