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At 7/19/06 12:59 PM, Tinnymin wrote: Without spam, most topics would suck.

Without spam, other users could easily find and respond to the intelligent posts in a topic.

I need to know what a vagrant is, can someone help me?

The Nintendo Wii will suck

I made this some time ago, is it spam or a funny parody topic?

Hey, I wanted to complain. But I feared I would get yelled at.

But I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so.

Also, is "What games should I get?" considered spam?

Sorry i know i shouldn't be laughing about something like this i'm just reading down and i think it's about damn time to open up a shit load of cans of 100% pure whoopass Grade A and Wade is sure on a well deserved mean streak from what i can see.

Wade i'm glad you are finnally cracking down on spammers who think it's ok to make pointless idiototic topics especially when the mods are not on,the only words i have for you are Godspeed!

I will obey

At 7/19/06 01:00 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Stuff

It's been stated repeatedly that the BBS is such a minor part of the site, and such a big drain on resources that we should count our lucky stars that it's here.
I understand you want to get a decent enough forum but you're dropping a hammer on the way the BBS has been for ages and ages.
I'm thinking that when all the new peeps get modded there will be a violent shitstorms followed by the leaving of many loyal BBS regulars. Now I understand that from your perspective this not a major problem because we're the resource hogs but I think a lot of artists come and STAY because of the BBS.

And what the rest of the online community thinks? Who cares? There are a million and one forums out there that are bigger shitetraps than this BBS.

At 7/19/06 12:59 PM, Tinnymin wrote: To be honest, threads in the general section are almost all spam.
The reason for the general thread, is to have a laugh. the other sections of the BBS are for serious talk. Without spam, most topics would suck.

not true there have been serious topic in the general as well. Also there have been funny topic that made people laugh without them beeing spam. I think it is a good Idea I just wish that this was done sooner I used to get banned so much for Stupid spam threads I didn't know where just that spam

If you want intelligent posts, go to the Political section.
The general thread is for a laugh, and the mods are doing their job fine at the moment. Not much need for a massive onslaught of mods deleting threads at sight.

At 7/19/06 12:59 PM, Tinnymin wrote: To be honest, threads in the general section are almost all spam.
The reason for the general thread, is to have a laugh. the other sections of the BBS are for serious talk. Without spam, most topics would suck.

I heavily disagree with this statement. Spam is spam and isn't actually needed in any respect. The spam wade is talking about is the useless kind that we see day in and day out in 25 of the 30 front page topics which generally have no purpose other than the author felt the need to make a topic. I myself have been guilty of this at times, though I generally strive to find something interesting to make it about instead of talking about the pickles on my sandwhich, or taking pictures of me holding a two liter bottle of pop and emptying it by magic...

If the users here were of the intelligent sort there are any number of topics that weren't political or about flash or about audio that could be held in the general section. Several of them come up everynow and then. The fact remains that it is hard to have any semblance of originality in a place like this and most people would know it if it bit them in the ass. I don't really blame people for being uninteresting, but I do agree that talking about how much you like the color green is a little uneeded and boring.

Everything here is repetitive. I know this topic will get lots and lots, probably 30 pages of responses and this will all be drowned out in the dismal crashing of bbs stupidity and people trying to be helpful or at least attain modship. You name one topic about something that isn't a current event and I almost guarantee I can find a similar topic on the bbs. Even this one is nothing new, it just came from Wade this time.

No more fun :'(

At 7/19/06 01:00 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Obviously a lot of people see this as just Wade being a dictator, etc. I didn't just come on here and decide out of the blue this had to be done. This is a result of hearing complaints about the forums from respected users, mods, other NG Staff (Tom, etc), about how our forums are going to shit.

The General Forum has been starting turning shit in beggining 2005, when we got a new people wave, 13 years old people and morons from all around the internet.

I decided that it was time to carry out everyone's wishes and try to turn things around.

That would be really great, and about time :) How many times has it been said... And now some of the mature, respected and fun users are leaving... Myself I left for a couple of months... needed a break from the spam and shit happening on the General Forums...

The spammers thing the spam is fun, but all this non-sense scares away more intelligent and mature posters. Many of these people don't want to be associated with the crap that is on these forums. If we clean this place up many people feel it would start attracting more mature users, such as some of the better Flash artists, etc.

Exactly. That's 100% true, and I completely agree with it. That's probably why all the new users we get are usually some retarded kids that thinks they can spam the BBS because it's wide and Moderators can't really be everywhere.

Right now the NG forums are known as a big cluster fuck and a joke to many in the online community. That's not something Tom or any of us really want. We would like to see the forums get cleaned up and be used by more people.

Well... if they get cleaned, we will probably lose a lot of members, but it wouldn't actually be a big loss... And hopefully a new wave of new and different users could join Newgrounds, and not be flooded with spam and flame when they post for the first time.

I also wonder, if a person is bored and goes on Newgrounds and start a topic like
"I am bored,tell me a game I can play now"
Is that consired as spam? Cause I see that more often on the BBS now.

At 7/19/06 01:05 PM, Tinnymin wrote: If you want intelligent posts, go to the Political section.

Yeah! Because 15 year-olds making thousands of Pro-Communism threads is going to be filled with plenty of intelligent posts. Unlike them, I've actually lived under the thumb of a Communist regime. The only person who would consider Communism to be a utopia would be a masochist!

I actually feel sorry for Proteas, trying to Mod that forum!

At 7/19/06 01:05 PM, WadeFulp wrote: It's the same on the knife site I go to. People put "I want a new knife, any recommendations?" and the topic starter gets a bunch of shit for not providing details like "How much do you want to spend?" and "What do you want to use the knife for?" and "How large of a blade do you want?" etc.

So if he posted "I'm looking for a knife thats good at slitting throats" that would be fine?

It's also pretty damn sad that with seeing so much utter bullshit that you can't really trust a low level low posting new BBS poster to be intelligent and mature about stuff since we seen so much nonsense by them in the past and present.

At 7/19/06 01:08 PM, Plakat wrote:
Most of our regulars are spammers. And have really stupid concepts of chatting with other people.

Are you kidding me? Anyone with over 2000 posts are the ones that spam the least. And really stupid concepts? It's the way we've grown accustomed to. For new members it isn't a sinecure to learn the set ways of the BBS.

At 7/19/06 01:10 PM, X-Naut wrote: It's also pretty damn sad that with seeing so much utter bullshit that you can't really trust a low level low posting new BBS poster to be intelligent and mature about stuff since we seen so much nonsense by them in the past and present.

I agree with you there, I can't trust anyone thats new to newgrounds anymore.

At 7/19/06 12:59 PM, Tinnymin wrote: To be honest, threads in the general section are almost all spam.
The reason for the general thread, is to have a laugh. the other sections of the BBS are for serious talk.

Exactly, what i think, I always post either random or insightful stuff on the General, but whenever I go out to Wi/Ht? or Political that's when I get serious and actually think out my statements and how it's going to be perceived

And Wade, who would think that NG forums are "some clusterfuck"? First off I've been to alot of forums and the BBS is by far the most easy on the eyes, most idoits online base a forum on such a simple thing as that. Most other forums are ugly, easy to get lost in, lack pages, and worst off have about 20+ topics (Flash,Wi/Ht?,General, etc.)
BBS is more organized, is the overall

Everywhere except general is filled with intelligent post and threads
If ever anyone sadi they didn't like NG BBS how would they be able to make a good argument? Jealousy is most likely a main factor.

I dont think we need to attract many more users, theres at least a 100 of them logged in right now...

As for being the stupidest, i think YTMND forums beat us on that one by alot.

What I want stopped is... the amount of people asking for medical advice on Newgrounds. I know it's spam but it's common sense to pick up the phone and call your doctor.

At 7/19/06 01:09 PM, gotflash wrote: No more fun :'(

Not for you. You my good sir, are like Jeremy Clarkson. Awesome when not being a complete shit.

Seriously, spamming ain't funny. It's one of those stupid hobbies that comes back and bites you in the arse.

Why not try blowing things up and taping them and putting them on YouTube and GoogleVideo and linking to them? We may call you king of danger someday!