Jokes forum

[Jordy]

Some might say the forum itself is the joke.

[Phil]

I always thought that there should be post count in this forum. It would encourage people to post humourous things and it would liven up the forum a bit in my opinion.

If your not going to implement post count in it though, then you might as well merge it with spam.

I used to count towards the users post count but it was disabled because people just started posting "lol i find dat funi" or something in like all the threads to get their post count up.

[Eoin247]

I used to count towards the users post count but it was disabled because people just started posting "lol i find dat funi" or something in like all the threads to get their post count up.

I was given this argument before, but i find it a bit silly to be honest.

I mean you might then just say disable post count in the welcome forum because loads of people just post "welcome". Just use the same moderation of pointless posts in that forum like all other forums.

[Kyle]

I was given this argument before, but i find it a bit silly to be honest.

I mean you might then just say disable post count in the welcome forum because loads of people just post "welcome". Just use the same moderation of pointless posts in that forum like all other forums.

What else is there to post as a reply to a joke thread other than whether you found it funny or didn't? :S

Merge it with or give it its own subsection in spam

[Eoin247]

What else is there to post as a reply to a joke thread other than whether you found it funny or didn't? :S

Merge it with or give it its own subsection in spam

I don't really see much of a problem if somebody gets a +1 post for saying a joke is funny or not. People get +1 posts for saying if they like rooms or not in the cool rooms section do they not? But anyway,

Well you can add to it, explain etc. To be honest a load of threads on here give very limited responses. What else can you say in the welcome/leaving forums apart from expanding on "welcome". People usualy expand on their answers or at least they should. With the logic your giving me, a lot of threads that currently aren't in spam should be moved there. I'm looking at "new posts" right now and i see a lot of threads that offer limited responses.

[Kyle]

Yes, a lot of the threads are rather pointless but having them all in spam would just be stupid. There are rules in place in sections with these sorts of threads that prevent users from making spam posts. For example in the graphics and cool rooms section there are rules that all replies must be constructive and if you aren't going to post in a certain manner that you shouldn't post at all. Admittedly the mods in these sections are very liberal and I don't often see people getting warned/infracted for posting "gr8 room" or "that graphic is bad" but allowing post count in the jokes forum is just going to encourage pointless posting for postcount even more.

As somebody that clearly refreshes the new posts section every minute I'm sure you'll agree that if you see a joke thread and you know that you're going to get post count for reading it and posting a short reply then you're most certainly not going to pass up that chance.

[Eoin247]

Yes, a lot of the threads are rather pointless but having them all in spam would just be stupid. There are rules in place in sections with these sorts of threads that prevent users from making spam posts. For example in the graphics and cool rooms section there are rules that all replies must be constructive and if you aren't going to post in a certain manner that you shouldn't post at all. Admittedly the mods in these sections are very liberal and I don't often see people getting warned/infracted for posting "gr8 room" or "that graphic is bad" but allowing post count in the jokes forum is just going to encourage pointless posting for postcount even more.

As somebody that clearly refreshes the new posts section every minute I'm sure you'll agree that if you see a joke thread and you know that you're going to get post count for reading it and posting a short reply then you're most certainly not going to pass up that chance.

I'm not too sure what your implying by that last part... Anyway to avoid an argument i'll stick to the topic. What you are saying is not entirely true. The jokes section in this case is actualy very comparable to the cool rooms section. In the cool rooms section there are always a ton of people who simply post things like "nice room" all the time and get away with it. Whenever i posts there (although i don't post there as often as i used to), i enlarge my comment by stating what i liked about the post/room etc. I never post small pointless comments here, even though i know fully well i can get away with it. If these forums were moderated in the same way there wouldn't be a problem.

You can get post count for posting short replies in many more places than the jokes section. Unless the mods are going to crack down on post content in other sections, then post counts in the joke section isn't a bad or unusal thing at all. Just introduce some posting rules like there is in every section of the forum and moderate the jokes forum properly