Motion Passed: Non-counting of Posts in a Games Forum
Jan 20, 2012, 8:20 pm
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No to game posts counting.
Jan 21, 2012, 4:36 am
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Hi,
I support this motion
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I support this motion
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Jan 21, 2012, 12:53 pm
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As one who posts in the game thread I'm somewhat against this motion. I and others have posts after posts in the counting threads...If posters that never posted in the game threads come in and started spamming or start creating new threads then I think the mods should step in and kick them out of Omni.
and people cant be kicked out of forums can they? (having forum masked)
people can ASK to have forum masked, but ive never heard of this as being part of TOS. (a "punishment" following specific violation.)
Jan 21, 2012, 2:07 pm
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so you want your post count to be inflated, but youre implying you wont spam or something. so only inflated so much. seriously?
and people cant be kicked out of forums can they? (having forum masked)
people can ASK to have forum masked, but ive never heard of this as being part of TOS. (a "punishment" following specific violation.)
and people cant be kicked out of forums can they? (having forum masked)
people can ASK to have forum masked, but ive never heard of this as being part of TOS. (a "punishment" following specific violation.)
Jan 21, 2012, 2:10 pm
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so you want your post count to be inflated, but youre implying you wont spam or something. so only inflated so much. seriously?
and people cant be kicked out of forums can they? (having forum masked)
people can ASK to have forum masked, but ive never heard of this as being part of TOS. (a "punishment" following specific violation.)
and people cant be kicked out of forums can they? (having forum masked)
people can ASK to have forum masked, but ive never heard of this as being part of TOS. (a "punishment" following specific violation.)
Jan 21, 2012, 2:15 pm
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As one who posts in the game thread I'm somewhat against this motion. I and others have posts after posts in the counting threads. Those posts came after Omni stopped counting.. I suggest shelving this for the time being and see how omni is once the posts starts counting. If posters that never posted in the game threads come in and started spamming or start creating new threads then I think the mods should step in and kick them out of Omni.
It's entertaining to sit and watch how the pro OMNI count camp plays the (in)consistency game after they have their way. Yes, I am still bitter.
I am not sure whether OMNI mods would consider "newer" OMNI game participants as post runners if Games Forum were a post counting forum though.To be honest, I find all this OMNI post counting proposals and motions kind of tiring now. Do you know how many new and newer TB threads are centered around counting OMNI since December 2011? I am starting to see no point to be engaged in this line of discussion at this point. I am also having a second thought about how to invest my energy in TB Topics Forum and FT from now on.
Jan 21, 2012, 2:25 pm
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Since Carol hasn't turned on counting we can't even get an idea of how this might play out in the interim.
Jan 21, 2012, 3:01 pm
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The only folks who get masked from a Forum are the few who actually request it....and that's not very often. The others who get masked are those whose repeated, uncivil actions require it.
If it's "punishment", it's punishment that was 101% brought about by a specific member's actions. We don't cruise around looking for folks to mask from a forum. They make themselves readily known after multiple uncivil events.
Jan 21, 2012, 4:01 pm
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The only folks who get masked from a Forum are the few who actually request it....and that's not very often. The others who get masked are those whose repeated, uncivil actions require it.
If it's "punishment", it's punishment that was 101% brought about by a specific member's actions. We don't cruise around looking for folks to mask from a forum. They make themselves readily known after multiple uncivil events.
If it's "punishment", it's punishment that was 101% brought about by a specific member's actions. We don't cruise around looking for folks to mask from a forum. They make themselves readily known after multiple uncivil events.
A Venn diagram showing the relationship between the set of FT events that are "uncivil" and those FT events that are "TOS violations" would be an interesting graphic, no less so when it is not certain if TOS application will be the same for all parts of FT or not.
Jan 21, 2012, 5:03 pm
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Funny, how some here just want to post on Games/Omni just to inflate post counts..
Well, at least they are honest.. Honesty is always the best policy I presume..
Well, at least they are honest.. Honesty is always the best policy I presume..
Jan 21, 2012, 5:30 pm
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Jan 21, 2012, 6:34 pm
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irrelevant
= you want them to count
what else can they do? and you do have to allow for actions following each election.
= you want them to count
To be honest, I find all this OMNI post counting proposals and motions kind of tiring now. Do you know how many new and newer TB threads are centered around counting OMNI since December 2011? I am starting to see no point to be engaged in this line of discussion at this point. I am also having a second thought about how to invest my energy in TB Topics Forum and FT from now on.
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Jan 21, 2012, 7:56 pm
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There is nothing wrong with Omni games as is.. If people start spamming Omni by inflating their post counts then they should be kicked out. As it stands right now there is no reason IMO to split it up again. As I previously wrote, the mods should make a call on this and if they can't control the spam then they should tell the CD to create a forum for games.
You really have a hard time reading what I wrote in my first post.
You really have a hard time reading what I wrote in my first post.
Jan 21, 2012, 8:02 pm
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game = only spam
most of what ive seen has been about consistency, while you came right out and said you want your game posts to count
but only because you wont post too much... (which goes against the common consistency argument)
in other words TB should do less
most of what ive seen has been about consistency, while you came right out and said you want your game posts to count
but only because you wont post too much... (which goes against the common consistency argument)
in other words TB should do less