Also, I should add something about losing the game: you should post /me lost messages only when relevant and if it adds something to the discussion, otherwise it might be considered spam. (So if you're gonna reply /me lost alone, it might not be a good idea, unless you also add something that is relevant to the discussion, that is, a real reply.)

Thanks for the reminder JC. Temporarily disabling the Spam board doesn't mean we're going to push the spam somewhere else.

Quote from: Juju on July 19, 2012, 10:01:24 pm

Also, I should add something about losing the game: you should post /me lost messages only when relevant and if it adds something to the discussion, otherwise it might be considered spam. (So if you're gonna reply /me lost alone, it might not be a good idea, unless you also add something that is relevant to the discussion, that is, a real reply.)

I was however very tempted to reply that to this post.

Yeah, I agree that this shouldn't be used as a spam section. Also Deep Though, I didn't know it was temporary?

I believe it ends as soon as Omni found a way to automatically cap the board at 10% of the content (above which the spam section automatically locks itself down or vice-versa) or maybe when it gets back under 10%)

That reminds me, spam was particularly bad on the old board. During the last half of 2006, it was over 25% of the entire Omni content posted at that time (about 5000 posts out of 20000)

But then again, didn't you have 2 major counting threads?

Don't we still have them from the Minus World Merge (hm, we need an official name for that), and that supplemented by newer threads?

There needs to be clarifications to humor and jokes rules, regarding what exactly is allowed and what's not, because earlier today I received a warning about misuse of the humor section, even though I believe I was within forum rights, and the thread involved was moved to spam. I did not mind the move as much because the thread, while I believe it's not spam, was at risk of starting spam. However I did not see anything anywhere in this topic's first post nor the forum rules disallowing my topic.

Would it be possible to edit this forum sticky to include clearer examples of what's not allowed? For example:

-Is it now prohibited to mention you lost the game anywhere under any circumstances, even if most of your post is on-topic?
-What kind of trolling, other than the offensive kind, is disallowed there, if any? (For example, misleading thread titles, prank softwares/links, sarcastic posts, etc)
-Are any form of forum game (9000 signs you're addicted to calcs clones, for instance, or "create a basic program by posting 4 new lines of code every post") disallowed here?
-Image-only threads (such as funny pics)
-Is moderation here done arbitrarily, where a thread is moderated only if found, or are there other criterias?  (seeing as http://ourl.ca/16663 was moved, but not http://ourl.ca/16696 )
-Possibly other things?

It would be nice to not be scared of posting in a forum section in fear that our topic might be locked. Better prevent than heal.

I believe he was within forum rights too, but I still gave him a friendly warning as one of the admins thought it was spam (maybe because of the game losing line, I dunno).

Well, at least it lead to this discussion about clear rules. The line between Humor and Jokes and Spam is pretty unclear, which leads to confusion. I think not even every admin agrees about how game losing is allowed.

Well, as long the answers of the games aren't filled with stuff with "lolol the game", but more constructive stuff, I guess it's fine.