The spam game rant

[Professor K]

I know sometimes I'm a little harsh as an administrator, so this time, I'm leaving the issue up for intelligent conversation.

Ok, here's the thing. The Spam game is amusing, and ultimately on topic. BUT with recent posts that people have been making:

"SPAAAAAAAAAAAM!" - Warren
"fzgjkbdfjjdfjlbfjblggbjljbsfjblgfbjlfgjlb.....(etc)" - Dynasty99
"OMGLOL! OMGLOL! OMGLOL!" - Furious D

...it has occured to me, that the game is ridiculous. there's no actual "game" element, and essentially, all people use it for is raising their post counts. I realize it's a popular game, but really, I think I'm going to have to close it down.

post your opinons here. if no one provides a reasonable reason to keep it going, I think I'm going to close it down.

[vegasbobcat]

PK, I think the Spam Game should be kept, if for no other reason but that it gives an outlet for "Spam", which keeps it from spilling into other topics.

Quite a few people have posted on this topic and it looks like it's also one of the most viewed threads.

Whatever you do, is okay. . .but I think you need to have an outlet. . .like this.

[Teej a.k.a T-Dj]

vegasbobcat said:

PK, I think the Spam Game should be kept, if for no other reason but that it gives an outlet for "Spam", which keeps it from spilling into other topics.

Quite a few people have posted on this topic and it looks like it's also one of the most viewed threads.

Whatever you do, is okay. . .but I think you need to have an outlet. . .like this.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with Vegas here

I've thought about closing it too, but came to the same conclusions. If it helps keep spam out of the other topics, its good, no matter how much i hate it

[warren]

it's too late to close it really, if you had closed it near it's creation that would have been fine but now it's established itself as a very popular topic and you just can't kill it.

[Miz]

Besides, I don't see the underlying problem in raising post counts. I don't think any less of, say, Furious D because she has less posts than Warren.

[dynasty99]

the spam game should be kept because it is fun, if nothing else.

[Professor K]

alright. I give in. it's just aggrivating the way the thread is used sometimes,, but I guess if everyone wants to keep it, I might as well leave it where it is.

*locked*