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thomas

thomas

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He is posting to threads over 2 months old. Which may be fine but he puts: Yes it is a good ranking, to the a thread 5 months old and those ranks dont count anymore,

Sorry about my all caps posts gob. ;)

quoudam72

quoudam72

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::) These guys are new to the boards give them a break. I'm sure they are wanting to up their rank on the boards, you know when posters first come their first impulse is to post alot (I remember when some of you guys did the same things). No where in the open on the site does it say not to post to anything over two months old, which I think is ok as long as it's relevent to the thread. And guys you can't expect "newbies" to know all of our little rules. Did any of you ever stop to think maybe you could IM the persons about it and explain why you think it is annoying? They haven't said anything offensive, they have just been posting to old threads. No need to go to DEFCON 4.

Acriku

Acriku

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You don't think it is common sense when you see how far back the thread is in the archives, or the date is 2 years ago, it is closed? It isn't just because everyone was thinking of what to write for 2 years...

quoudam72

quoudam72

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No, most people do not look at the last date that someone posted. If it such a big problem why not just lock the thread and no one will post to it anyway. Come on let's not make a big deal out of nothing.

Gobalopper

Gobalopper

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Well I don't want to lock every thread as thats a hell of a lot of threads to lock. :)

I could implement some sort of way to disallow replies to threads over a certain age... I will look into it, mass posting also pisses me off as I read every message posted.

Another way is a limit to the number of posts you can have per day, which could increase depending on a rating I give. If you have been around a while there might not be any limit but new posters or spammers would have a much lower limit of posts per day.

jacobdouds

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What have I done wrong? If I have annoyed anyone I am sorry. If you post on an old thread does it bring it back up to the top of the list or something? And thank you Shogun-FS for sticking up for us newbies. And whats this about a thread two years old?

Mahdi

Mahdi

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Most likley he never even looked at the date on the posts, and just went through posting his opinion to threads that interested him.   Don't forget, when you first sign up every thread says tat it is "New", that may have thrown him off jsut a bit.  I actually went through looking for completly commentless spam of his to delete and I didn't see any.  Even his comments saying "it was ok" fit in the thread because the thread asks "What did you think of House Harkonnen?"  Tommorow he'll probably come online, see all you guys complaining about him, and realize that he's been responding to threads 3 years old, apologize, and stop.  Plus, some of those old threads still have discussion left in them.

Hell, that "Which Dune novel do you like best?" thread was posted two years ago  and is one of the most popular threads on the site right now,  with pretty much everyone in this thread contributing to it.  The 16th post made in that thread wasn't made until a full year after the first,  and if often goes two or three months without another post, then someone brings it up and it gets 6, then it disapears, then someone brings it up again.

If we banned every newbie on this forum who posted a lot his first few days, very few of you guys would still be around today.  He's been asked to stop posting to every thread, and if he doesn't, then more action will be taken.  But right now, he doesn't look any different from any of you when you came on these boards.  We had to warn most of you not to drag up old threads as well, and most of you hadn't even noticed that they were old threads.

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