Glaucus wrote:
1. People using ![]()
HTML in their posts - often enormous images, which also appear in people's replies to the offending post.
Why shouldn't people take advantage of the World Wide Web when posting on a web forum?!? Perhaps we should turn A.org into a telnet/gopher server then?!?
I agree, in any case it is only recently that people have started to find it annoying. Everything in moderation eh?
2. People posting garbage like "this is my 4000th post". I think this is the worst kind of crapflooding.
It's called a right of passage. It's goofy, no argument there, but at the same time it's good to (self) honor those long time users of Amiga.org, with which without there would not BE an Amiga.org.
Not only that, but I always thought those posts were meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek. I might write, "1000 posts, WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!" But if people seriously find the prospect of posting a certain number of times here truly exciting....
Besides, its like a birthday, you don't relish the fact you're getting older, but you might as well remark on the fact!
3. People posting stuff for the sake of it, that doesn't actually say anything.
Well that's highly subjective. Communication is always good. I'm surprised people are so anal about this crap-flooding BS. Personally, I think it livens things up a bit. I mean, A.org is full of wacky characters, many of which I strongly disagree with, while others I'm indifferent with, but I'd never want to see anyone be removed. If someone's a goof, well, the world is full of goofs and that tells me that even goofs have a role to play.
Again I agree with you, but there is a line between someone having different views (politics is often the case), and someone who makes the whole AOrg experience less enjoyable through personal attacks, trolling, etc etc
I personally find the differing views, the odd subtle bit of trolling from people who usually talk sense, the occasional joke and pi$$take quite enjoyable, but its when someones sole purpose to troll...
Anyway, as has been said, lets lead by example. Now if only all the right-wingers hadn't fled the DMZ under a socialist barrage we could get some real discussions going! :-D
