Get rid of post your... junk threads

[Kyle]

Various people have posted in this thread on both sides, just because the people complaining are more vocal doesn't mean you're the majority.

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It's not a problem tho

It is cos people are getting tokens post count for not actually contributing to the forum. the extent of the problem is outlined in these 20 pages.

[The Don]

It is cos people are getting tokens post count for not actually contributing to the forum. the extent of the problem is outlined in these 20 pages.

Shockwave has just over 200 posts in the post what you're listening to thread, that equates to 5 credits. Don't exaggerate the situation.

[Kyle]

Shockwave has just over 200 posts in the post what you're listening to thread, that equates to 5 credits. Don't exaggerate the situation.

It's 5 credits more than people who have't spammed these threads for months. Not exaggerating at all, unfairness is unfairness.

[The Don]

It's 5 credits more than people who have't spammed these threads for months. Not exaggerating at all, unfairness is unfairness.

Nothing is stopping you from posting in that thread. Unfair implies you're somehow disadvantaged which is not the case.

[Kyle]

Nothing is stopping you from posting in that thread. Unfair implies you're somehow disadvantaged which is not the case.

apart from my desire to be actually involved in the community and not try to put myself ahead by posting meaningless drivel (most of the time)

[The Don]

apart from my desire to be actually involved in the community and not try to put myself ahead by posting meaningless drivel (most of the time)

And again, how is that relevant to what others choose to do? If people don't want to get involved in the community and prefer sticking to those threads, removing them isn't going to change that. If people are coming here solely for those threads then removing them will deter those people, who could eventually start getting involved in the community, from coming on.

[karter]

i believe it was some mod who said a post is pointless if it cannot initiate a discussion??

so obviously if someone posts 'chips' in what are you eating thread no one is going to quote and reply with the response "zomg love chips" so uh...........?

[Kyle]

And again, how is that relevant to what others choose to do? If people don't want to get involved in the community and prefer sticking to those threads, removing them isn't going to change that. If people are coming here solely for those threads then removing them will deter those people, who could eventually start getting involved in the community, from coming on.

You asked me what is stopping me from posting so I answered. It might not be relevant to the choices of others but it's still relevant to the discussion as it's an ethos I feel that more should have.

Threads are promoting and rewarding inactivity through reliance on gaining postcount by repeated posting of items of clothing or types of food. Rules of the forum and these particular threads means that no discussion is to be had and it's all just spam. Removing the threads doesn't necessarily mean deterring users at all, if they are active members of habbox they will find somewhere else to post. If they've been on the forum for this many years and only post in these threads then it's easy enough to see a trend and assume that they won't "eventually start getting involved".

[The Don]

You asked me what is stopping me from posting so I answered. It might not be relevant to the choices of others but it's still relevant to the discussion as it's an ethos I feel that more should have.

Well nothing is actually stopping you from posting in there besides your own desire not to so it isn't unfair.

Threads are promoting and rewarding inactivity through reliance on gaining postcount by repeated posting of items of clothing or types of food. Rules of the forum and these particular threads means that no discussion is to be had and it's all just spam. Removing the threads doesn't necessarily mean deterring users at all, if they are active members of habbox they will find somewhere else to post.

They aren't promoting inactivity in the slightest. If you think 5 credits every 2 months or so is going to have a serious impact on people posting in other threads and is preventing serious discussion then I haven't really got much more to say. Not everybody is looking for drawn out discussions and if people want to participate in the lighter threads by posting what they're listening to or what they're watching then why shouldn't they? Just because you aren't interested in those threads doesn't mean others aren't.

If they've been on the forum for this many years and only post in these threads then it's easy enough to see a trend and assume that they won't "eventually start getting involved".

Ah, so just discourage them from coming on completely and any future chance of them getting further involved with the community.

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@subo; I'd also like to point out that you've made twice as many posts as shockwave made over the past week in just this one thread. 12 posts for last week, he's going to be working a while to get those 5 credits from the token shop.

[Kyle]

Well nothing is actually stopping you from posting in there besides your own desire not to so it isn't unfair.

It's unfair on users with smaller postcounts that are more active within the community that these particular users are being allowed to post this tripe and without actually involving themselves. The unfairness is not a question of who is allowed to post but of the manner in which we are rewarding posts.

They aren't promoting inactivity in the slightest. If you think 5 credits every 2 months or so is going to have a serious impact on people posting in other threads and is preventing serious discussion then I haven't really got much more to say. Not everybody is looking for drawn out discussions and if people want to participate in the lighter threads by posting what they're listening to or what they're watching then why shouldn't they? Just because you aren't interested in those threads doesn't mean others aren't.

By rewarding (no matter how small it is) users for spamming these threads and not encouraging them to post elsewhere it is promoting inactivity and sending a message to others that if you stick to the same few threads and don't even try to get involved with discussion (no, it doesn't have to be "drawn out" but the forum is for discussion) then that's perfectly fine. The current events team consists of 7 people and habbox is having a lot of difficulty recently attracting new users so we should be trying to draw discussions from the current userbase that clearly know how to use forum.

Ah, so just discourage them from coming on completely and any future chance of them getting further involved with the community.

That is my point. We want to encourage people to get involved, not discourage them, but doing nothing about the threads does neither. More incentives for making fruitful and discursive posts are needed.