I was saying you should ignore threads that don't appeal to you.
I do, this has nothing to do with that..
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I was saying you should ignore threads that don't appeal to you.
Dont pull my posts out of context and use them inappropriately. ......
I think a lot of people do it to quickly boost their post count - where else can you reply to the same pages 100x with the same message without even reading the post. I have seen a lot of generic postings telling a user to do something (fill out profile, post where your from, etc) that they already did in the post - if the person would just take the time to read the post instead of spamming the same message on ever post.
I have noticed lately several people "mass post" a generic "welcome" message to 2-4 entire pages of threads in the "Introductions" forum.
In doing this, threads from 1+ weeks ago are now at the top of the forum and brand new threads get pushed to pages 2-5+ and rarely get seen again. There are a lot of people here who actual read the posts and respond and acknowledge the new members which is excellent. However it seems there are a growing number who go thru pages and at a time writing a generic response and pushing new threads down to the bottom and old to the top.
Maybe set a higher interval between posts in this forum or even make posts not count towards postcount.
So they should just post about something random or post things that don't even make sense? Once again, it has NOTHING to do with boosting post count - i could care less if thats what makes them tick. That is not the problem at hand, once again.
Now YOU are missing the point... ignore the new posts in that forum. We have told you HOW to do it, and have asked you for a possible solution. It's just that simple.Why should I have to ignore staff members posts? If anything, they should be the posts that actually added reason, maturity, and fairness to the threads.
So you did... one is not feasible given our current software, and the other, according to your recent postings, is moot as it is not their reason for posting. So there you have it. Now you are free to use the work arounds given you, or not.Actually, once again, if you actually read my post I did provide two possible solutions
This sounds suspiciously like a NOK comment. We don't do NOK around here! NOK=Not Our Kind.Just because a post is within the ToS does not mean that is good for the forum.
Unfortunately, this is not a forum specific setting.Maybe set a higher interval between posts in this forum
these are your exact posts....... no pulling anything on this side of the typewriter... your words, your posts
Now YOU are missing the point... ignore the new posts in that forum. We have told you HOW to do it, and have asked you for a possible solution. It's just that simple.
Now, I am not sure why you think staff should be silent in these threads. They are USERS first and have as much at stake in this forum as you do. If they post as staff, they usually precede it with a
Until they do that, and they won't in threads where they have already commented, they are to given the same respect as any other user and are allowed to have opinions contrary to yours or any other user for that fact. Again, there is nothing in the ToS against a moderator, advisor or any other staff voicing their opinions.
So Nitro, I have to ask. Do you actually dive or would that cut into your post reporting and complaining time? For Gods sake man, quit trying to police the board and just enjoy it.