It is 150 characters not words.
Cheers,
Vijay
Originally posted by: roxthefox
Oh come on, banning people for saying Thank You? It's a stupid idea to ban harmless people, when there are worse problems lurking on IF that should be taken care of. I mean, we have twisted and deranged people here bashing members and their families, and spending all their time stalking other members and tarnishing the environment with their vulgar, vile, and extremely disgusting comments, and we're worried about spammers and having them banned?
First take care of the shameless people who have the audacity to slander members and their parents, the stalking around IF, which has actually led to stalking around the internet. This is very dangerous and downright creepy, and the abuse of report button just because they are too faint hearted and sensitive to hear a word against a fictional show/character.I think if people can't handle discussions, or any sort of negativity, because they live in some sort of psuedo, delusional world, then they shouldn't be on IF. There are many 'fanclubs' on facebook that they can join.I dont' mean to offend the admins; IF has something great going for it, and it WAS great back in 2005, but unfortunately, it has devolved into a frathouse of sorts for the socially inept. Less than 90% of discussions that transpire here pretain to anything BUT thought provoking or substantial, and no point was this the purpose of IF.Come on, we're all here to discuss, but that becomes difficult when we're being told how to post, what to post, and how much to post. There are many loopholes with this idea!
Vijay, I appreciate you making an effort to communicate your scheme regarding the issue of spamming with the members and collecting their inputs. I view that you have altered the original plan and have forced yourself to re - evaluate your decision. OK, so we can safely that you have chosen to perhaps set this issue up and have prepared to undertake the other vital issues that float around IF. I am enthralled to know that success hasn't gotten to your head and you still envision to make your forum into a ground where substantial amounts of discussion can take place. By the way I am glad that folks that go around literally 'ROFL'ing' and 'LOL'ing' have not forced you to live in a delusional world where you tend to believe that this place that you built is delightful.
Now if you read the post posted by roxthefox, who goes by Soha, you will be at an advantage and end up gaining quite astounding results, I must say. The issues that she raises in her post, in my opinion, are far more heavy weighted compared to the issue of spamming. If in anyway you can eliminate the grave conflicts that have only been arisen due to the dim - witted elders/youngsters who have nothing better to do than spit out vengeance against the scholarly minded.
The issue here is not very simple and until the folks who attempt to carry on bright discussions are ceased by the dim witted folks by their dangerous methods of stalking on IF and outside of IF, this place shall never attain the success it rightly deserves.
My views are quite scattered on this issue, but Vijay, I request you to take out two minutes and read the post written by 'roxthefox.' It will only assist you in making sure that the few intelligent minds do not desert IF who day and night contribute rational material to your site.
One idea that we were pondering is how about putting this character limit of 100 characters for Newbies / Groupies as that is where the most spams are being generated as people are new, unaware of COC and they just want to cross to another group level. We know many of us might have done those "Thank You" but later became quite active poster on the forum. π By this system we just want that we are able to reduce workload of the moderators team.
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