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fg123 wrote:

Paddle2See closed the 100 posters list!     

Discuss.

Okay, let's discuss. 

I feel that certain elements of the community have become obsessed with the post counts recently and that it is leading to a lot of unnecessary posts.  Closing the topic might help people focus on the original purpose of the forums - sharing useful information.

I also have been receiving a lot of reports about unfriendly behavior and arguments from that particular topic and I am tired of cleaning it up.  So, like any other topic that becomes too much of a maintenance problem, I closed it.

It was not caused by any one person or set of actions but rather the cumulative result of a series of small actions.  So nobody is to blame except me.

waveOSBeta wrote:

In that case, if another person made a topic with the same purpose as that, would you close it?

I admire somebody who doesn't give up easily 

Since my primary reason for closing it was because it was becoming a maintenance hassle..what is going to be done differently to keep your proposed new topic from becoming a hostile competition and spam-fest?

Paddle2See wrote:

Passions about post counts seem to be running very high and generating a lot of hostility.  In the interest of community harmony, I am closing this topic.

I feel that certain elements of the community have become obsessed with the post counts recently and that it is leading to a lot of unnecessary posts.  Closing the topic might help people focus on the original purpose of the forums - sharing useful information.

I also have been receiving a lot of reports about unfriendly behavior and arguments from that particular topic and I am tired of cleaning it up.  So, like any other topic that becomes too much of a maintenance problem, I closed it.

It was not caused by any one person or set of actions but rather the cumulative result of a series of small actions.  So nobody is to blame except me.

Don't worry, I'm still discussing with Paddle2See. (Hopefully, He'll post here soon  )

That's what I suggested to Paddle2See.

Paddle2See, please look at this thread.

RobotKitty wrote:

I got ideas for the new one.

Once it's made, close it, sticky it, and have the current moderators edit it. So it's just a reference, not a discussion thread.

fg123 wrote:

They should lock it, then sticky it! 
Actually. I think this might be closed too. 

I said it first. 

So Paddle. What do you think? By the way, I would help clean up if I was a mod... 

Yees, but the discuss part changed.

gettysburg11 wrote:

Yeah, to be honest it needed to go. I agree with Paddle that people were spamming and posting just for the sake of bumping their post count to get a higher spot on that list. I bet that a lot of it will stop now that the list will no longer be updated.

ahem
No.

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ihaveamac wrote:

gettysburg11 wrote:

Yeah, to be honest it needed to go. I agree with Paddle that people were spamming and posting just for the sake of bumping their post count to get a higher spot on that list. I bet that a lot of it will stop now that the list will no longer be updated.

ahem
No.

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Why not?

Ah, I didn't really care about it anymore.


Not after- THE SECRET.

fg123 wrote:

You might not be top 3 anymore? 

I'll be keeping a list for personal use... Maybe.. 

Maybe I'll put it in Google Docs!