Originally Posted by
lin821
I think this is a good idea/solution.
OMNI now is totally open. Since there's no entry bar for folks to view, having prize contests in OMNI may be good enough an incentive for onlookers to register and participate. Whatever the contest rules may be, there's no concern of post padding since OMNI is a post count free land. At least we can be sure for those who feverishly post in those new OMNI prize contest threads are really into the prize. One individual can freely generates 3K, 4K or even 5K posts in one single thread.
Yes it's a good solution in terms of isolating promotion / posting / activity from post counts (until the next change
).
I was puzzled to find the AMS thread in CBuzz, for the very reason that some people will be upset that others have posted junk.
More worrying was that this thread, according to a little birdie, was only to be monitored for a few parts of the FT TOS (e.g. not posting personal attacks or X rated pics) - but was open to 'post anything' that extended to not stopping people using software 'bots' to post pasted text, post after post, 2 per minute.
IIRC this is a repeat of what happened with another (former/suspended) FT poster who became obsessed with posting twice a minute to the degree that he had accumulated 40k posts in maybe less than a year.
After that person was suspended indefinitely, I was incredulous to find that FT was being operated in a way to create a greenhouse/hothouse for bot posters again. After all, we don't want to encourage this... quality over quantity, right?
Randy - wouldn't this discussion be better for you and FT if it were conducted in TalkBoard Topics? Sving you a little time and using your sounding board?
(PS. Not everyone who has enjoyed playing OMNI games is there to post pad. )