Discussion over moderation of spam (moved)

[Foot]

This thread isn't about you. Other people thought it was a subject worth talking about. Yours was the first post that occured in the discussion. If you want to make a complaint PM bovi and ask him to change it.

Foot

[Maion Maroneios]

I was hoping it would be obvious to him from the beginning. This thread may not be about me, but it says I'm the thread creator, which I don't like.

Maion

[Foot]

as I said, PM him about it.

Foot

[Maeran]

I think that your position in the creation of this thread is quite clear to all now Maion.

Ideally, this thread would be closed and allowed to drop off the front page before a fresh and new discussion (which I note that Bovi and presumably Foot consider it necessary to have discussed) could be created that is clearer.

However this isn't all that practical, so I shall try to shove this onto topic and get this over and done with.

Moderation is a time consuming and thankless task that is necessary if there is a tendency (and there was- you can check the threads linked above, and those of equivalent date) to produce threads that are so far out from where the forum is intended to be that they are simply wasting server space.

On the other hand, overmoderation can stifle a forum and make it somewhere that people do not want to go.

Personally, I think that this place is the best place I have ever been for discussing the ancient world, and my posts have reflected that. But then it is also a forum dedicated specifically to a modification of a video game and so must reflect this more than anything.

It's not a nice subject. And I don't know if I have helped or hindered with this long winded post. But I would rather give room for its discussion here than let the situation topple wither toward total chaos or overmoderated death. Why? Because I like the place, shucks.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Has anyone noticed how the spam threads here are incredibly entertaining?

I loled all my way into, through and out of them. The first time I saw Bartix, months ago, I thought my head would fall from my shoulders.

[bovi]

To be precise, I thought the posts moved here had sufficiently derailed the thread they were in to warrant a split, so the original thread could continue in its purpose. I didn't close it and have no intention of it. I said that any further discussion could be taken by PM, it was disregarded (not by Maion) and a fair number of posts came in reply, so I moved the whole discussion here to a new thread as there was obviously a wish to discuss it and I do not want to censor it.

Maion's post was the first one to concern this, and the meaning of the rest would be lost without it as a reference. I also edited his post to reflect what I did. I don't know how I could possibly change the author of the first post.

[Maion Maroneios]

I see. Well, you can continue this discussion as long as you want. I have no intention to do so myself, but I understand why this thread was created this way.

Maion