Spam threads should be deleted

[Nemo]

This is my view on it really. They do no harm, people like them, what motivation is there to kill them off?

Then why have other pointless threads that contribute no discussion not been allowed?

[FlyingJesus]

this discussion has proped up before, and James has said it's staying as it is.

A fact that you seem to enjoying abusing the hell out of. Managerial reluctance to change is hardly sufficient reason for having regulated spam across the board which contributes nothing at all and requires no interesting user input while people having active conversations are punished with "off topic" warnings and get relegated to spam.

"They do no harm" and the ever-popular "omg why do you care about post count?!?" are irrelevant as it's still abuse of the system, especially when there are rank rewards for members with higher post counts and people are able to reap these rewards without actually being of any use whatsoever to the forum. We were right when this was brought up about Forum Games, and the situation isn't different now, it's just in different places

[Jordan]

A fact that you seem to enjoying abusing the hell out of. Managerial reluctance to change is hardly sufficient reason for having regulated spam across the board which contributes nothing at all and requires no interesting user input while people having active conversations are punished with "off topic" warnings and get relegated to spam.

"They do no harm" and the ever-popular "omg why do you care about post count?!?" are irrelevant as it's still abuse of the system, especially when there are rank rewards for members with higher post counts and people are able to reap these rewards without actually being of any use whatsoever to the forum. We were right when this was brought up about Forum Games, and the situation isn't different now, it's just in different places

I said above, I post in there once a day... So It's been 93 days since it's been posted, and I've posted 92 times? :S
Anyway moving the What are you's will kill them out.

[Chippiewill]

The fact is, if there is no 'threaded' discussion, then it is spam. If people do not react or respond to other peoples posts (Unlike in the technology forum Post Dekstop/Setup) then it is basically spam and pointless and should be labelled as such. It is just like forum games. there used to be a rules preventing these threads from being created with management permission to prevent spammable threads. I remember when I used to use forum games a lot, it was possible to get 50 posts in one night just from that, I expect these threads are just the same.

[FlyingJesus]

I said above, I post in there once a day... So It's been 93 days since it's been posted, and I've posted 92 times? :S

And how many of those posts helped to create or further some sort of discussion?

Anyway moving the What are you's will kill them out.

That's kind of our point. If no-one would post in them without the post count it proves that they're just being abused as a tool, same as forum games were before

[Callum.]

How many posts did you get this month Jordos?

[Jordan]

How many posts did you get this month Jordos?

I'm not sure, Jamess show us the top 5 people with their amount of posts, I am interested and I think some others are

[Chippiewill]

Anyway moving the What are you's will kill them out.

Who really cares anyway, they don't promote discussion.

[buttons]

i have like 1,500 or something from both the "what are you listening to?" threads, i want my posts from there off :/
i would still use the it because i do when i'm bored not for post count, i don't like getting a post count for it

[giltinux]

i agree and wy i dont do this?!