*Note: A request for a rule change to be seen by GMTs, however feel free to discuss.
*Note 2: The main issue is chainposting, everything else could be just rant.
*Note 2: The main issue is chainposting, everything else could be just rant.
MAIN ISSUE: Chainposting
Recently, 2 users maliciously chainposted as an act of "revenge" or whatever. Whilst I understand its a joke, lets not let this happen again. Chainposting is the name given to a specific type of spamming on the forums. The term "chainposting" or "chainpost" first appears in General Discussion around 5 months ago, during a discussion regarding quality. Since I'm one who has whined about this specific type of post-farming/spamming variant often, I've decided to give the term a temporary meaning for now, as to ease confusion in discussion and potential implementation:
Chainposting: The act of posting in multiple threads with minimal contribution, with or without the intention of burying other, usually recently made threads.
I REQUEST ANY FORM OF CHAINPOSTING BE PUNISHABLE UNDER RULES OF SPAMMING, AFTER A FIRST WARNING IS ISSUED
(its annoying spam shite)
Chainposting: The act of posting in multiple threads with minimal contribution, with or without the intention of burying other, usually recently made threads.
Note
Chainposting cannot occur on pinned threads, due to a lack of change in bump order.
(its annoying spam shite)
ISSUE 2: Tradeposting / Alternating / Conversation
Firstly, I have no idea what to call this (in my head I call it alternating but I don't know the actual term), and secondly this is not such a big issue but I'll mention it here anyway.
Threads which consist of two people talking back and forth trading post count should be locked, or should have their trading halted. This doesn't come up often but an example could be the "sing with me thread" that was finally moved to FG after months of 2 people going back and forth (good job GMT!).
I believe rules against this might exist already, but sometimes it isn't enforced.
Threads which consist of two people talking back and forth trading post count should be locked, or should have their trading halted. This doesn't come up often but an example could be the "sing with me thread" that was finally moved to FG after months of 2 people going back and forth (good job GMT!).
I believe rules against this might exist already, but sometimes it isn't enforced.
ISSUE 3: General Post-farming
This may be much more difficult to moderate, therefore I understand why it occurs.
Post-farming has existed for who knows how long, but was made popular by a user known as Stomiks. The main difference between Stomiks and post farmers of today, is that Stomiks never seemed to purposely fill single threads with his own replies, often providing some level of smoothness to his posts. Stomiks was never annoying anyone in this regard (personal experience).
The most annoying practice of 2023/24 post farmers is the act of responding to every single fucking reply on a thread, even when it doesn't involve them. Responses are usually dumbass questions or comments with minimal effort considered to make it look like they actually give a shit about the thread (it's obvious they don't). One of this is fine, now put this on every thread and sometimes recur it multiple times, and we have a bit of an irritating situation.
Am I overreacting? 100%, yes I am.
If we could just ban blatant post-farming under spam, that would be great, but it may not be this simple
Post-farming has existed for who knows how long, but was made popular by a user known as Stomiks. The main difference between Stomiks and post farmers of today, is that Stomiks never seemed to purposely fill single threads with his own replies, often providing some level of smoothness to his posts. Stomiks was never annoying anyone in this regard (personal experience).
The most annoying practice of 2023/24 post farmers is the act of responding to every single fucking reply on a thread, even when it doesn't involve them. Responses are usually dumbass questions or comments with minimal effort considered to make it look like they actually give a shit about the thread (it's obvious they don't). One of this is fine, now put this on every thread and sometimes recur it multiple times, and we have a bit of an irritating situation.
Am I overreacting? 100%, yes I am.
If we could just ban blatant post-farming under spam, that would be great, but it may not be this simple