this forum is called discuss anything..

so i made a thread about discussing nancy..

and got deleted *********

Thread moved by mat64 (Forum Moderator) from Discuss Anything: This thread is better suited here.

Your thread got moved here, just as this one has been moved :).

Discuss anything means nothing now, it's either spam or belongs in one of the forums. Not sure why this forum even exists :S

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Discuss anything means nothing now, it's either spam or belongs in one of the forums. Not sure why this forum even exists :S

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For the things that don't fit in any other forums. Its only moved to spam if it obviously has nothing to do with anything vaguely ineresting or discussable. There isn't a guide on what is spam and what isn't, its up to the mods to use their judgement.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Discuss anything means nothing now, it's either spam or belongs in one of the forums. Not sure why this forum even exists :S

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This is a tough one. You sometimes have to look at replies to judge whether the thread is spam or not, for example: 'I went to Thorpe Park today' could turn into a discussion about Thorpe Park, or it could (and probably would) result in replies like 'fantastic....' and 'gd for u', in which case it is spam. If the user has posted something like 'I went to Thorpe Park today, have you ever been? What did you think of it? Favourite ride?' then that's worthy of discussion.

That's a good summary from the user jesus there.

Thorpe Park goes in the Tourism/Travel forum :P I can't think what possibly could go into the discuss anything forum... Birthdays and celebrations are the only thing, most things in that forum are news or entertainment related.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

Thorpe Park goes in the Tourism/Travel forum :P I can't think what possibly could go into the discuss anything forum... Birthdays and celebrations are the only thing, most things in that forum are news or entertainment related.

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Yeah he just gave that as a random example though lol. And yeah most things have a forum.

Rename the forum, cos u obviously cant discusss anything in it.

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

For the things that don't fit in any other forums. Its only moved to spam if it obviously has nothing to do with anything vaguely ineresting or discussable. There isn't a guide on what is spam and what isn't, its up to the mods to use their judgement.

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Eh and who gets to decide what is "interesting or discussable". What someone classes as interesting may be spam to someone else. For instance, I could post a thread on the sky and how I love the fact it is blue... However someone else may class this as spam.

To be honest, I think we have gotten a bit too caught up in trying to predefine exactly where every possible topic should be placed to the point they are now counteracting each other out and we have nowhere to post at all.

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Originally Posted by Ostinato

To be honest, I think we have gotten a bit too caught up in trying to predefine exactly where every possible topic should be placed to the point they are now counteracting each other out and we have nowhere to post at all.

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I think more than that we've been moving towards creating something for *everything* to have a section which has slowly restricted the number of "Discuss Anything" type topics. With all the requests for a new sub-forum because there wasn't one to cover it, Discuss Anything became less useful. However, maybe we could merge the unpopular and unused forums back into Discuss Anything?

And maybe rename it Discuss Anything Else if we must :P