posting challenge

[Chippiewill]

oh, i forgot it was against the rules to post what i was listening to. thanks for letting me know..

Actually it's always been against the rules to spam the thread.

That's hardly anything.

It's excessive. The idea of the thread is just to post the good ones rather than use it as a blatant way to get post count up.

[:odey:]

Actually it's always been against the rules to spam the thread.

I thought spamming consisted of,

1) Saying things that didn't relate to the thread,
2) Constant double / triple posting,

I don't think we've done either of them.
They're what the thread is supposed to be, and there's a time frame between them, it was hardly one after another...

People do it all the time, not just when there's a competition on...

[Grig]

You shoulda also really laid out the ground rules before doing this comp, as they're many things that can get through the net.

[Hollie]

Other people post in that thread like that when the competition isn't on too so I don't get why it's such a big deal now the comp is on lol

[Chippiewill]

Other people post in that thread like that when the competition isn't on too so I don't get why it's such a big deal now the comp is on lol

Because normally it doesn't *quite* make it to 200 posts per day.

People do it all the time, not just when there's a competition on...

It's not allowed whenever and if people do that then they should be reported. From what I've been told in the past by management moderators *supposedly* check it for spamming frequently.

The thread really shouldn't be allowed in the first place and the only reason I don't press the issue very often is because it's *kinda* kept in check.

[Jurv]

Actually it's always been against the rules to spam the thread.

how can you call it spamming when i doing what the thread told me to do and post what i was listening to?
i'm sure that if this competition wasn't going on it would have been fine and left alone.

[=Lizzy]

i honestly think you are taking this to heart, no one else is making a big deal out of it. We got pmed and stopped, we also are having those posts taken away.
Only trying to make the forum more popular with posting!

[Chippiewill]

how can you call it spamming when i doing what the thread told me to do and post what i was listening to?

That thread has ALWAYS been borderline against the rules as "~ Do not posts threads which only allow for short, one or two word answers and do not promote active discussion", it's been allowed (Against many people's objections) because normally it isn't abused.

i'm sure that if this competition wasn't going on it would have been fine and left alone.

It was due to the obvious abuse the thread was receiving at the time more than anything else.

You guys ought to be pleased that the thread was ever allowed to begin with and move on.

Only trying to make the forum more popular with posting!

"Post your" threads are not a display of a popular forum, just a spam-able one. People want to join forums with active discussion rather than threads which act like polls.

[Grig]

i honestly think you are taking this to heart, no one else is making a big deal out of it. We got pmed and stopped, we also are having those posts taken away.
Only trying to make the forum more popular with posting!

If this is the case then the issue seems settled. Otherwise you'll be going around arguing in a loop .

[:odey:]

I don't understand why I should lose my posts from that thread when they're not breaking the rules at all imo...