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We want to reduce the spam in the offers category - share your ideas!
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The end of an era.
That wasn't the deal? You are negotiating, without my negotiation team!
(and free balls=not good)
Of all whatever is on a thread spam wise, comment order number is the worst. But hey, this is the way, and it has been for a long time.
next annoying one is best of the best of the beast of the .... well you know what I mean.
+1 :
Yap, true, agreed on this, but they should also auto-close after 30 days or so.
Spot on, nice
, alto I like the 7$, debian and funny memes.
@Arkas
For less spam, cut the double the BS and invoice number from sales threads, and let providers find other ways to engage with their customers ( as this is a human forum, and humans like interaction, or we can all post via GPT-ed scripts from now on? ), let the parties involved to be funny and be free to post mimes or other. Sink the thread in 7 days and auto close it in 30 days, otherwise I really do not see a simple / clean and universal rule for this. - Feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong.
For example ( not to encourage spam in anyway)
The BF mega thread was fun and engaging whatever the spam was, I doubt that a silent offer page would have made those that missed the deals in the spam-crowd able to snatch one more.
The THX / Rearguards and bananas/confetti were were awesome, fun as it can be.
The contribution of @fat32 and others was valuable ( ~3.2 Mil views as I recall )
Or LET's take all this out in 2025 see how that will go???
Too soon to call for #we-respect-arkas ?
This is great. thank you.
I think a "hide thread" feature would solve the problem for users who look for non-spammy activity in the first page.
IMHO, prohibiting thread-bumping would possibly lead to less giveaways/prizes distributed by providers to members hence less activity on forum. This doesn't necessarily increase quality of posts.
Just my opinions
Spammy or not, closing an active thread before the "competition" finished without warning isn't the best practice.
I get it, but maybe let said threads finish before doing this without warning?
There is a userscript out there to hide purple threads specifically.
@Arkas
I totally respect the choice as it cleans up a lot of crap. However, I implore you to reconsider your stance solely for the yearly BF thread.
It's part of LET tradition, a thread where (almost) everything goes. Once a year, total craziness. Like the purge, but better.
Spammy type posts do have a significant impact on the normal communication between users and providers, but "Giveaway" is a very interesting marketing activity that encourages providers.
If only can get rewards by pm to providers, this will completely lose the marketing effect fo providers. It will also greatly reduce the activity of the forum.
If consider setting up a special section for such "Giveaway" posts? make forcing the posts to be automatically closed after 5 or 7 days, and limiting the frequency of providers posting such posts, such as only posting once a month.
PS:I see there is a "giveaways-freebies" section in the forum. Is it possible to allow providers to post a additionally comment getting "giveaways" articles in this section? And set restrictions? Or set up a special section and make it invisible on the home page and in recent discussions.
This thread was created by @Arkas in the spirit of improving our community. I appreciate that.
There is a balance to be found between creating an exciting environment around sales-periods like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, New Years, etc, and reducing the noise on the forum.
We are going to refine this policy as a group and then implement something official when the time is right.
… never?
I've updated the name of this thread to reflect that this is a discussion and not an announcement of an official policy change. We are open to feedback on how to find the best common ground outcome.
That said, we are going to be more critical of worthless content inside offer threads that just goes on and on and on. Everyone has to respect the community.
Mentally strong people do not backpedal.
hmmm there were many ideas last year......
Welcome to LET!
Like some of the other rule changes and whatnot that were promised a couple times and soon to be released? Just make this the official policy till you find time to ,improve’ it. Thanks @Arkas for stepping up, stopping that pointless and useless spam. BF / NY and other official threads obviously could get an exception or permit spam from Nov - Jan, but for heaven’s sake… this change was needed. Those topics / comments neither help the community nor LETs placement on google.
Looks like a political affiliation/view irked then ego boost. Moderation is really needed, they can make decision, but I wish members not to be threatened. Moderators, Administrators too post memes, funny posts, irrelevant comments at time, no one mind that, instead work with them cheerfully, everyone thinks all same, like a forum family without differences. You may even have weighted approach, old threads given lower weightage, show in different page or bottom, or many other ideas given in the forum or mods/admins can decide the best one.
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Sometimes you really behave like an asshole. The first time you tried to exert pressure via the painfully stupid stone-age "[do as I wish] to show you have balls" attempt I just rolled my eyes and went on.
Let me help you understand: @Arkas already clearly demonstrated to have balls and big ones by closing multiple RackNerd threads.
Continuing to follow your "orders" either shows that Arkas is very, very patient - even with bullies (you play a similar stupid game with your IPv6 hall of shame which also shows a bully approach) - or, in case he refuses and I hope he does refuse to follow a bully's orders, it shows that you try a poodle vs patient but strong bull game or, in other words, that your balls are too small.
I expressly thank @Arkas again both for closing those threads and for not obeying small ball commands.
You might be surprised how far a friendly, polite "please* goes ...
I'm just sayin the thread ended at the end of the month, so it just seems unfair.
Was it spammy? Yes.
But let it be grandfathered in until new policy.
Nope, revered RatNerd queen bitch majesty. Already well earned.
Ergo
we respect Arkas and want him as admin!
Every listed thread has spam-encouraging prompts.
We don't care whether it's purple or not.
Throwing stuff out there
The threads are fun but i also see the problem and would be lying if I didnt say that. After doing my first BF thread and seeing where things are now, its not really clear what the rules are/were. There was a game being played and you had to play by it to get some of these offers.
Im 100% in favour of killing the amount of "banter" that goes on. It was exchausting and the convos that went on between were nice. Things finally toned down too.
It'd be nice to also find a way at the same time make these giveaways more fair in a way that still also benefits the provider for their marketing purposes and doesnt encourage people to out talk the others.
I say this as a purple newbie.
reguards.
We don't care whether it's purple or not.
I hope you play basketball better than you BS as I know 1 thing. ipVshit or nor, YOU don't keep your word. I might be disliked, but I am honest.
Stop with the rat shit. The bad light shines brighter every day and your reputation here sinks fastly. As of others too, that spamming.
Off topic but it’s wild that “Karen” is 2 letters away from being “Arkas”
Sad that the RN megathread is gone. It was fun. Even ppl that disagree with it liked and had fun with us, like @Saragoldfarb and @ralf. But i get the decision.
I'm a RackNerd fan, obviously, and even I considered it spammy this year. I had fun but, I just think some kind of warning, an announcement of new policy, something, would have been fair. Especially since the competition, no matter how spammy it may have been, is now shot.
I certainly respect the decision to clean up the forum, but still, let the threads run their course and then don't allow new ones.
when i was 18+, people asked me when i am going to marry. i said "when the time is right" . now i am 34 and i am still single.
It seems the megathread events for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas 2024 have already reached their peak...