Pointless posting

[Aiden]

post count in spam would be the worst thing ever

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What?

Habbox Awards 2013 durr

[GommeInc]

Habbox Awards 2013 durr

I like how that was awarded How did that even come out? Was it in TV Guide? It's so weird! It's like awarding prisoners for their crimes at a local/regional show - Greatest gardener - Patricia. Biggest drama: When Alf slept with his entire family, including his animals. Unfortunately, Alf cannot be with us today as he's serving time at Her Majesty's pleasure

Post count in Spam would be counter-productive, if anything many of the threads in there could probably go in Discuss Anything.

[The Don]

Would that not mean we could get this happening?

[Serious] Beyoncé's new song
[Not Serious] Beyoncé's new song

So we have two threads on the same topic. One you can ONLY talk about the new song, but in the other, you can talk about other things that Beyoncé has done.

The serious tag would most likely not be used in that sort of thread, however if that did happen and two threads were made, the serious version would be buried due to the limited conversation allowed compared to the non serious thread. The serious tag was suggested to keep important threads on topic, and allow other threads freedom to change topic (naturally), which is not currently allowed in the rules. It's not foolproof But obviously the current rules aren't working and need updating. Any other suggestions?

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Yeah you get awards and free VIP and MOTM and all sorts. Then again Hx seems to enjoy rewarding people for bad things like Martin getting 3 awards last night for preying on kids. Def wouldn't suggest a post count in Spam that would not be useful to anyone

Yeh I guess if the current incentives stayed the same enabling post count in spam would be ridiculous as it would get spammed with terrible threads.

I was against it in the past, but if we had a like system or something similar we could reward people for their post quality rather than quantity as people would be more inclined to like a post than rep one as there are quite a few restrictions on repping people. Then remove all incentives for post quantity and enable post count everywhere?

[Kardan]

I just feel that we currently have that freedom, and that the serious tag would just restrict threads and because of that it wouldn't get used very much.

[FlyingJesus]

Technically in the rules threads can evolve since it states that "an off-topic post has no relevance to the topic or any previous post that is relevant, or does little to positively contribute to the discussion" so moving from YER I LAKE BALONS to talking about an experience with balloon animals to talk about an experience with clowns should be fine. Seems that mods are less happy about allowing that to happen (when it doesn't break any rules) than letting people post crap answers with no discussion value (which does break the rule)

[Chris]

Technically in the rules threads can evolve since it states that "an off-topic post has no relevance to the topic or any previous post that is relevant, or does little to positively contribute to the discussion" so moving from YER I LAKE BALONS to talking about an experience with balloon animals to talk about an experience with clowns should be fine. Seems that mods are less happy about allowing that to happen (when it doesn't break any rules) than letting people post crap answers with no discussion value (which does break the rule)

Your example is definitely allowed. If a thread was talking about balloon animals and then the topic suddenly turned to the weather then that would be off topic.

[FlyingJesus]

WEATHER BALLOONS

[e5]

Wait, do you guys get warnings for pointless posting? I only get a PM telling me to avoid it... Unless that is a warning?

A PM is only ever a friendly reminder asking you to avoid breaking that rule so further action doesn't have to be taken against your account. I think people forget this or are not aware of this.

If you get a warning (yellow card) this is clearly stated in the PM that you have received a warning. Same with the infraction.

Pointless posts for example are usually subjected "Pointless posting" rather than "You have received a warning for pointless posting" when you haven't.

You then then given a usernote against your account (which you can't see) which is just a reference to other mods as to which rules you have broken and how long ago.

Does the forum still even have the yellow card warning/red card infraction system anymore? It's been so long since I got a warning/infraction I don't know I mean, in the past year I must have racked up many many PMs for pointless posting - they've never added up to anything though.

Yeah.

u cant get a warning of infraction for it unless u do it excessively like spamming, no?

so warning for pointless posting is pointless. u should just live a little a 1 word answer or chilled response not need to be warned

You are not yellow carded unless you break the pointless posting rule many times in 1 day or over a period of time.

Feel free to join then
or get martin off dnhl so I can hire him lol.

As for pointless posting, my own opinion of this is that a post is pointless if it doesn't connect with the thread in any way. For example, my feedback today shouldn't have technically been in the thank you forum but the thank you thread was about the awards, the feedback was about the awards so there was a connection. So I actually wouldn't classify 'dinner' as pointless because you eat dinner so it makes sense (perhaps then there's an argument there about these type of threads). I didn't check all the other posts but if there is an attempt at trying to make a conversation - even if that conversation doesn't include everyone - and there is a line of connection that means it makes sense then that's fine too. Despite that, I am known for being really relaxed about forum rules (fired from mod trial) and I'm not sure that's wise when there's a 100-posts-a-week competition. Perhaps the rules regarding that need to be stricter to deter the increase in rule-breaking rather than getting really technical and specific with the rules.

I think posting 'Dinner' and going by the current rules, is a pointless post. Yes, we all have dinner but this thread really requires a response of what food/drink you last had rather than the generic "breakfast" "dinner" "tea" as we all have that. 'Weetabix' 'ham and cheese sandwich' 'sausage and mash' would be more a more appropriate answer than 'Dinner', 'breakfast' or 'tea'.

this is wat i mean 1 rule for some and another rule for others
me and skandair get the worst of it because we have bad reputations for pointless posts. its totally bias

wats more if skandair had said "i go alone" it wouldnt have been pointless and it literally adds NOTHING to his post

I personally think that threads that allow for one word replies should be in spam altogether. That doesn't necessarily apply to all threads, but for example "Do u shower at night or morning" is a bit of a pointless thread to me. I did happen to reply to this, ironically, but I actually made something of my post, but it's a very easy thread just to reply with "night" or "morning". I suppose this could apply to a lot of thread of the forum, but just my opinion anyway.

omg 1 word answers r not POINTLESS stop this
sams post is not pointless and under no circumstances should it be considered pointless
just because it says "never" and nothing else. everything that needs to be said is summed up in 1 word

u all make me so angry

One word answers aren't always pointless to me. However according to the forum rules, 1 word replies are deemed to be breaking the rules.

Would you feel more comforted if we changed it from being called 'pointless posting' to 'Please do not reply to threads with just one word' so it directly links to the rule of not posting 1 word replies?

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this post is the future of habbox cant warn me now HAHAHHAHAHHHA

WEATHER BALLOONS

Dinner.

Nice work in taking advantage of breaking the rule in a feedback thread.

[FlyingJesus]

Thanks I tried really hard

[Kardan]

However according to the forum rules, 1 word replies are deemed to be breaking the rules.

Not anymore!