NOO

[Megalos]

We'll review the Tavern thread after awhile, until then it will remain closed, and any other spam threads will be closed and remain forever closed.

Think of it as EB marshall law, until respect and order returns to the forum, this will be the way of things from now on.

BTW, the ban stick is very close to coming out for a few people, so be sensible.


EDIT: Can an admin lock this one too please.

[Gebeleisis]

well,it is like punishing your most loyal men from an army because of some dork ,ok i shall finish and let you guys decide,until then,i hope

[Hax]

Megalos, Teleklos.

I really cannot blame you for it, after what happened on the forums lately. It's just a shame that some people will have to suffer due to the mistakes of others.

[Megalos]

No one man is to blame for this, it's a culmination of bad behaviour from quite a few people that has caused this.

We feel the standard has really slipped in the last few months, especially in the last week or so, so we are coming down like a ton of proverbial bricks on the offenders and offences.

[paullus]

The idea behind something like the Tavern is to allow people to do some of their spam-like or casual discussions in one particular place. If it actually diverts spam into a single place, it works. However, it seemed more to encourage spam elsewhere (and note, if you look at the last few pages, that it was a lot more of a spam fest than a conversation-place, though y'all are right that it wasn't exclusively spam).

Perhaps Gertrude is solely responsible for the spamming of the past week, but the Tavern seems to us to have been part of what has become a spam-friendly environment. As has been noted, we'll evaluate things. I want you to have somewhere to talk about random things and develop a forum community. I don't want our forum to degenerate into so many spam threads. So be patient, please, while we figure out the best way to proceed, and I trust that y'all will agree with us that something needs to be done to make the forum a civil place--all the spam threads will not do.

edit: just had to mention how much I loved the disclaimer at the bottom of Respenus' post. Hilarious. I'm sorry that you suffer the deleterious effects of chronic number crunching, but your post was actually quite legible and intelligible.

[Ibrahim]

the EB moderators have a point. this is a time for cooler heads, and more reason. let us all wait and see.

[Horst Nordfink]

It's actually a welcome stance to take in my book, there have been criminal amounts of spam posted recently, obviously I would've prefered the Tavern getting away with it though.

At least there is hope of a reprieve.