Does Spamalot have a negative effect on the forum?

jnd94 · Post by **jnd94** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:59 pm

Well, ok, you heard him, lets stay on opic guys. So, GFY, how bad does ut feel to lose miserably?

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:59 pm

We're also still waiting on the proof that we are rude outside of Flame Wars.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:00 pm

s.xkitten wrote:or i would ask WCA if he had slowed down the animation on his avatar...it seems a little slower then what it used to be, but it could just be that i've gotten used to it...

but since we're not doing that...

and i would respond saying "No, i didnt slow it down. thats the speed its always been at"

But since we are now talking about Hijacking threads, I say "whats wrong with hijacking threads, anyway, if the first conversation has ended?"

s.xkitten · Post by **s.xkitten** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:00 pm

but we were on topic...because he brought up hijacking, that turned into the topic, and thats what we were talking about...

and i still want an answer to my question

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:02 pm

s.xkitten wrote:but we were on topic...because he brought up hijacking, that turned into the topic, and thats what we were talking about...

and i still want an answer to my question

I already answered the question.

LOL.

GFY, you wont win. you have 20+ intelligent people against you.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:04 pm

If you want to Hijack your own thread, go ahead, but dont blame us for it.

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:05 pm

wcaclimbing wrote:
s.xkitten wrote:but we were on topic...because he brought up hijacking, that turned into the topic, and thats what we were talking about...

and i still want an answer to my question
I already answered the question.

LOL.

GFY, you wont win. you have 20+ intelligent people against you.

Not including DM. DM can win any argument. The mans a genius…

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:08 pm

hecter wrote:
wcaclimbing wrote:
s.xkitten wrote:but we were on topic...because he brought up hijacking, that turned into the topic, and thats what we were talking about...

and i still want an answer to my question
I already answered the question.

LOL.

GFY, you wont win. you have 20+ intelligent people against you.
Not including DM. DM can win any argument. The mans a genius…

OK.
I just counted.
we have 36 members.
Since DM is so awesome, he can count as 2 people.
that makes it 37 people against one GFY.

dominationnation · Post by **dominationnation** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:10 pm

wcaclimbing wrote:
hecter wrote:
wcaclimbing wrote:
s.xkitten wrote:but we were on topic...because he brought up hijacking, that turned into the topic, and thats what we were talking about...

and i still want an answer to my question
I already answered the question.

LOL.

GFY, you wont win. you have 20+ intelligent people against you.
Not including DM. DM can win any argument. The mans a genius…
OK.
I just counted.
we have 36 members.
Since DM is so awesome, he can count as 2 people.
that makes it 37 people against one GFY.

yeah bit diddle doesnt really count as an intelligent person so Its 36.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:12 pm

Yes
40% [ 6 ]
No
60% [ 9 ]

LOL.
we are more popular than i thought we were

reverend_kyle · Post by **reverend_kyle** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:58 am

Dancing Mustard wrote: I find it remarkable that somebody who appears to be so new to CC would appear to know precisely the significance that 'Gfy' has here, and would have formulated so strong a grudge against both Hecter and Iliad already. Has a mod given you a multi scan yet?

I love how noobish this sounds.

GFY is an option that is common on many forums/message boards and didn't come to CC as a commonly used phrase until the stachewackers took over the forum in July.

So you could make your username GFY and have no clue the significance it has here.

Phobia · Post by **Phobia** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:31 am

wcaclimbing wrote:Yes
40% [ 6 ]
No
60% [ 9 ]

LOL.
we are more popular than i thought we were

Not so much now

Dancing Mustard · Post by **Dancing Mustard** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:29 am

reverend_kyle wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote: I find it remarkable that somebody who appears to be so new to CC would appear to know precisely the significance that 'Gfy' has here, and would have formulated so strong a grudge against both Hecter and Iliad already. Has a mod given you a multi scan yet?
I love how noobish this sounds.

GFY is an option that is common on many forums/message boards and didn't come to CC as a commonly used phrase until the stachewackers took over the forum in July.

So you could make your username GFY and have no clue the significance it has here.

I love how pompous you sound Kyle

I also love the way you cherry-picked a single passage from the two posts I made and proceeded to concentrate on only one point therein. Furthermore I found it quite charming how you brushed over the fact that the phrase 'Gfy' does in fact have an unusually high incidence on these forums (with many posters citing it as a mandatory poll option). So while 'Gfy' is indeed a commonly used piece of internet vernacular; I was simply pointing out that because it has an added level of reverence attributed to it by posters here, it was worth noting as potentially significant factor in a wider ranging pattern of events.
You know, a pattern made up of all the other points I raised that you seem to have missed.

I wasn't saying 'everybody who is called Gfy ought to be scanned', I was simply saying 'users whose behaivour might be regarded as suspicious for several reasons ought to be scanned'. You certainly could innocently pick Gfy as a username, but in this case several other factors appeared to make the possibility that it was a 'random choice' more unlikely.

So better luck next time 'Rev', perhaps reading entire posts might help you avoid making stupid comments next time? Good luck on the 'make me a mod' campaign trail; I'm sure your inability to comprehend complex posts and your immensely pompous tone when answering them, are going to be winners at the polling booths.

Oh, and Gfy.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:55 am

Phobia wrote:
wcaclimbing wrote:Yes
40% [ 6 ]
No
60% [ 9 ]

LOL.
we are more popular than i thought we were
Not so much now

Still more popular than i thought.....

Ham · Post by **Ham** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:05 pm

Someone spammed the Spamalot thread and got all of Spamalot upset that someone would spam their thread.

s.xkitten · Post by **s.xkitten** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:25 pm

Ham wrote:Someone spammed the Spamalot thread and got all of Spamalot upset that someone would spam their thread.

nuh...back when i was part of it, i wasn't upset that they were spamming...they were annoying, sure...but that doesn't mean that you should get all upset about it...

firth4eva · Post by **firth4eva** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:31 pm

If there was no spamalot we would go to other forums to post and you would call that spam. Betyter to keep it in one topic than let it spread throughout the forums

MeDeFe · Post by **MeDeFe** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:20 pm

Did you see those smilies Ham? Horrible, I tell you, horrible! Of course, I think the anyone who uses any form of animated smiley should be banned from the forum for 24 hours for the first offense and soundly whipped whenever he uses one again after that.

GFY · Post by **GFY** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:36 am

Thank you voters for your support.

Can an admin comment on this?

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:56 am

GFY wrote:Thank you voters for your support.

Can an admin comment on this?

Why would an admin care?
You still haven't given proof yet.

Darnor · Post by **Darnor** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:53 am

Call me ignorant if you will, but what is this lag that you speak of when referring to the multiple smilies? Does it have to do with being on dialup? or running a pentium 2 machine, because a modern connection and hardware should have no problem with a few pages of smilies.

firth4eva · Post by **firth4eva** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:03 am

GFY wrote:Thank you voters for your support.

Can an admin comment on this?

The admin has just had a big discussion on whether to bring spamalot back. The answer was yes. And what trouble are we doing if we are just in one thread.

oh and GFY GFY

vtmarik · Post by **vtmarik** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:58 am

Is Spamalot bad for the forums?

No more than the Longest Thread Thread.

wicked · Post by **wicked** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:49 pm

While the thread itself may not be a problem, the majority of the regulars posting there, or those trying to "join" a non-existant clan by posting BS (whether they're encouraged to or not - and face it, a "post count" requirement doesn't exactly attract intellectual posters) are. And before the crybabies start whining and say I'm singling them out, I'll point out I know who gets forum warnings, and the majority of late have been "regulars" in that spamalot thread. If you're still disillusioned to this fact, I'm sure IC or I can dig up some numbers.

Edit, here we go... recent warnins for hijacking threads, and this was AFTER we made it clear with the whole spamalot deletion incident that thread hijacking would NOT be tolerated. Apparently these guys didn't get that first message...

Forum warnings given wrote:
[1] Crayola -- (Warning)

[1] diddle -- (Warning)

[1] DirtyDishSoap -- (Warning)

[1] Iliad -- (Warning)

[1] Skittles! -- (Warning)

[1] unriggable -- (Warning)

[1] Vincent M -- (Warning)

I'll let you guys compare the spamalotters with the list above.

s.xkitten · Post by **s.xkitten** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:22 pm

Darnor wrote:Call me ignorant if you will, but what is this lag that you speak of when referring to the multiple smilies? Does it have to do with being on dialup? or running a pentium 2 machine, because a modern connection and hardware should have no problem with a few pages of smilies.

you wanna see if it affects your computer, go to the two pages i linked to...its not that hard to click a link