Can we keep the post for (Three word game) under 5 post a day max. This is getting annoying. Kept the voting ladder to 10 votes a day and only one pair of girls. The pics for some posts also cut down. Need this post to do the same. Thanks.

About the Three word game... If members stuck to posting only one time in a row I think the impact wouldn't be as big as now... but hey, I didn't start the topic and have no interest in trying to enforce any rules the creator might or might not have intended in this over 2000 day's old topic =)

The intensity over time changes and right now the topics you post about are "hot"... give it time and they will fade...

I have an idea ... Perhaps someone with enough patience and a good will could collect all these posts of the Three Word Game together some day and put them into a book as a collective creation. Would be interesting to read, and who knows, you can finally sell it to Totem as well. For its history sake ... ];-))

Edit: take it with humor.

This kind of thing will keep happening until Totem fixes the way posts are presented in the '50 last posts' or 'most popular posts'. Why not let the software count the amount of posts in a certain timeframe and when the number reaches x the rest of the posts during that timeframe don't appear in the '50 last posts' or 'popular posts'. People who want to vote or post 3-words or whatever will find that thread anyway.

Another option is for mods to flag a thread so it doesn't appear in the 50 or popular lists anymore. But that could cause discussion again.

Oh and for me, I'm not bothered at all with the 3-word thing, or the guess the body part thread, or the inventions thread or the good joke thread, even though I'm not interested in them and they too are always in the 'most popular' list.

Good point. Besides, the various areas in the forum have a 'hot topic' filter themselves, so you only need 2 mouse-clicks to get to the threads that are now flooding the 50 last posts and most popular lists.

Ooops...looks like ive opened another can of worms! lol...It was me who decided to blow the cobwebs away from that thread & post there again after a few years of nothing.
Its only a bit of fun though, & if someone wants to post there, what's stopping them?!
I dare say, like last time, that people will get bored with the thread eventually and itll get buried again for another few years.

Well, I never favored change of rules or website changes for disruptive behaviour. I think the moment a topic becomes a nuisance and disrupts the normal operations of the forums it should be closed and that's it. Specially those topics with no end game and designed to go on forever just spamming.


The ladder has 3989 post of nothing in 258 days, that average more than 15 posts of nothing daily and it is designed to never end. That is spam, plain and simple, and these forums are not meant for that.

Well Oquijan, I guess what's a nuisance and what not is for you to decide then? 145 forum members casting over 3.000 votes have to stop because you think it's spam? Try to be a little constructive here ok?

I don't need to be constructive about rules violations. For a lot less than this, threads had been closed and members banned. You don't need to address me. My opinion is that that thread is just spam and makes the forums hard to read and follow for me. If others think the same or not, good.

You know that is the truth, since you are the one that want "creative" solutions just to keep on with that.

nice that here was opened another useless thread to discuss about other thhreads if they are only spam or not.
...maybe this will also run without end...:-)

...we will know in 2000 plus days or so... =)

lol @Spaveinvader ;-)

I got a three word question for the thread title.......

Why is that ???


EDIT:

Heaven forbid a small group of people deciding to have a little fun making a point in a thread that doesn't revolve around dumping pics or voting on something (or someone). Can't be havin' that !!!

Because It's FUN!

Ooops Sorry MEbad

Did it Again

CV, this time I tend to be agree with you without exception. Spam is something, which is never going to end and contains nothing - no info or whatsoever - just a "noise".
Three Word Game may become a spam one day, when to use it just for fooling, just to keep it going...
If to use it wisely and a creation in mind, it'll provide a lot of fun.
Every next post is exciting, you'll never know, what's next - into which direction the story will turn... And a story it is, though no one probably knows anymore, which tree words it started with ];-)

I got nothin'

... to story's end

There is room on the forum for everyone to enjoy it in their own way.
But the key to that is some self moderation.

As one of the Forum Moderators,
Yes I agree that the recent Flood of 3 word posts has over taken the last 50.
But I have yet to receive one member complaint.
This post is the first attention brought to it.

There have been previous Topics that also caused a flood of posts, and there weer a number of PM's related to them.

So a bit of self moderation is all that each of us need to do.
instead of contributing multiple time to the thread,

Limit oneself to twice in the same day...

I just had a thought. I don't like the idea of cutting off threads that people enjoy. On the other hand, I like to use the 50 latest list to track more meaningful discussions. My first thought was to give the moderators the ability to filter out certain thread, but I don't think that is workable. My second thought is to create a "playground" section which is always excluded from the 50 latest list. With such a section, the moderators could move something like the Three Word Game to that section thereby reducing clutter in the 50 latest without censoring anyone. My thinking is that it is probably easier to permanently filter out one section than to filter out designated threads. I assume the moderators already have the ability to move threads to the "correct" section.

Tell me.. what forum on the internet with alot of visitors have NO spam whatsoever in it?

Unless there is ALOT of admins actually taking care of it, its just gonna continue whether we want it or not.

The only way to stop this is if the Totem team decides to either stop those threads or make rules for them. Rules from members wont make a difference, and im sorry but starting even more ***** threads like this one wont do it either.

A forum on a website like this should be a fun place for the community i know but the easiest way to avoid all this is to just leave it be. If the totem team care about the forum at all which im pretty sure they do, i guess they already know about this and hopefully they will try and do something about it.

It's not a ***** of the terms and conditions if a thread is considered annoying by a member. This thread seems to be the only complaint about the three word game.

This game was pulled out of the attic, dusted off and re-opened. A few members decided to have a go at it and suddenly it's a problem. What's the issue ? There's nothing offensive present.

Threads that are found to be offensive by many members remain, even after it's suggested for deletion.

What exactly is the problem with the thread in question that requires it be tucked away where no one can see it ?? Is it that it's interfering with the domination of one other thread ???

@91hebasu i guess some members just HAVE to ***** about something but i agree with you.

CV's suggestion makes sense. It would probably be best to have a separate games topic area and not have it included in the last 50 posts. That way all can have their fun without inadvertently spamming the Last 50 posts. Just my miew.

Did you happen to read this one ????

By CV @2013-11-16 03:47

I actually posted with a hint of sarcasm earlier when suggesting the removal of areas from the 50 last posts, Sorry

although this would benefit a lot of people it certainly would not be at all helpful to the moderators whom have to check every post, removing posts from the last 50 would quadruple our "voluntary" workload

Surely Totem could make a separate 'last 50 posts' for the area in which threads are moved that clog up the normal 'last 50 posts'?
What does Totem think about all this I wonder?

If totem were to DO one thing to help, I think that one thing should be, to allow each member a check box to Follow specific threads.

Each member could then look at the Last 50, and see everything just like it is now,
Or look at "Threads I'm Following" and only see what they are interested in.

Part 2:
If Totem could Do 2 things..
The Second Thing would be an Ignore this thread option,
That would block that thread from even showing up in the members Last 50 view.
The only way for them to see it, would be to browse to it directly.

The Two combined would put the control into each members own hands as to what the see and what they wouldn't see.

91hebasu

Re: What exactly is the problem with the thread in question that requires it be tucked away where no one can see it ?? Is it that it's interfering with the domination of one other thread ???

It's a clutter issue and has an impact on people who don't visit very often. It hasn't bothered me much and I actually made one contribution to that thread. However, for me it means a little more scrolling to see what I haven't seen before. For someone who visits only once a day it means that some more useful post may have already scrolled off the 50-latest list.

20 years ago on Compuserve, you could designate which sections you were interested in and it would automatically show you all the messages in those sections that you had not seen during you most recent prior visit. I remember once getting 400 messages that way. The problem is that this kind of capability requires additional programming and also additional use-specific storage. I'm not recommending that here.

A combination of a games/trivita section with it's own separate 50-latest might be a workable solution both from a programming perspective and for both the moderators and regular users.