Pointless posting

[Phil]

Can someone link me to Tom's pointless post and Phil's non-pointless pointless post?

Mine: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...66#post8088866
Tom: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...63#post8088963

[Calum0812]

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

Pointless posting can't lead to warnings or infractions unless you take the mick and go and post 2 letters in 20 threads, then it is at the discretion of SMODs.
Other rules, if you do it within 2 months you get a warning and if you do it again you get an infraction.

[Yawn]

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

[karter]

"please leave moderation to moderators"

sure will do..if you do it correctly

[j0rd]

only a few weeks or so ago everyone was praising the forum department. what's gone wrong?

[Kardan]

I'd say Phil's post isn't pointless, it's just the evolving nature of the discussion in the thread. I'd also argue that Tom's isn't pointless, he does have a point in his post But it doesn't fit into the discussion in the thread, so I can see why it would be warned.

The question is though, how come a mod finds a pointless post a week later?

And are one word answers really any better than someone correcting spelling/grammar?

[Inseriousity.]

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.

[Kardan]

only a few weeks or so ago everyone was praising the forum department. what's gone wrong?

Thread topic quality deteriorated.

[FlyingJesus]

only a few weeks or so ago everyone was praising the forum department. what's gone wrong?

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=792226

[Phil]

I'd say Phil's post isn't pointless, it's just the evolving nature of the discussion in the thread. I'd also argue that Tom's isn't pointless, he does have a point in his post But it doesn't fit into the discussion in the thread, so I can see why it would be warned.

The question is though, how come a mod finds a pointless post a week later?

And are one word answers really any better than someone correcting spelling/grammar?

I would argue they're probably better because they're actually on topic..

I can't answer your question on how mods find week old edits unless they are fishing for them or they are reported to a SMOD. I'd hope the mods are reading the threads more than once per week