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[Magmar]

See, I think a spam forum is a good idea, but maybe we should have a certain seniority limitation to who can post in it, so people can prove they're not going to abuse it.

I mean, when someone who's been here a while posted a one-word reply, a smiley, or just a period, since we know him or her really well, it's not a big deal. In fact we laugh and keep scrolling, because we know how that person communicates, and we get the joke. When a new person does that, we start to doubt whether they are taking the board seriously. Not that many of us take it VERY seriously. I mean, I don't take it very seriously, but I respect it enough to usually post something of somewhat substance. We just have to know our place--in a forum that's almost died many times, and we're right now in a good, busy run that hopefully lasts a long time. And since we all hate to admit but like each other, we stick around and try to keep up the quality.

Can spam be quality? Absolutely. The Ctrl + V thread is quality... is there a purpose? Yes. Is there any substance there? Yes. Is it probably forged by at least 2/3 of the posts? Absolutely. (Don't even deny it, people from the fanfiction forum, that you post clips of your stories there on purpose!) In a way, we're just showing snippets of our lives, and we've all accepted it and just go along and continue to get the satisfaction of the thread.

[RedStarWarrior]

See, I think a spam forum is a good idea, but maybe we should have a certain seniority limitation to who can post in it, so people can prove they're not going to abuse it.

I mean, when someone who's been here a while posted a one-word reply, a smiley, or just a period, since we know him or her really well, it's not a big deal. In fact we laugh and keep scrolling, because we know how that person communicates, and we get the joke. When a new person does that, we start to doubt whether they are taking the board seriously. Not that many of us take it VERY seriously. I mean, I don't take it very seriously, but I respect it enough to usually post something of somewhat substance. We just have to know our place--in a forum that's almost died many times, and we're right now in a good, busy run that hopefully lasts a long time. And since we all hate to admit but like each other, we stick around and try to keep up the quality.

Can spam be quality? Absolutely. The Ctrl + V thread is quality... is there a purpose? Yes. Is there any substance there? Yes. Is it probably forged by at least 2/3 of the posts? Absolutely. (Don't even deny it, people from the fanfiction forum, that you post clips of your stories there on purpose!) In a way, we're just showing snippets of our lives, and we've all accepted it and just go along and continue to get the satisfaction of the thread.

I think a limit on who can post is a good idea. Another forum I go to has karma levels in which you gain higher level the more you are active and as you reach certain levels, more forums become available for you to post in. Now, I do not want to implement the system here, but the idea of allowing someone to post in the forum after a certain number of posts are made by them sounds like a possible idea.