Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:01:54
If you're spamming, you will almost certainly be reported, have the posts removed, and be muted for spamming. This is a very clear forum rule and there is no leniency for new members attempting to meet an arbitrary post count.
Forum Terms of Service (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39249.0)
JD's Recommended Reading (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=68372.0)
Have a good day.
Post by: KippHuntress on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:02:17
Post by: azhdar on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:02:50
;D
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:09:40
does this count towards my post count?
-_-
Post by: jerue on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:12:20
;)
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:12:49
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
Post by: nubbinator on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:13:09
This counts toward my post count too, right? I don't want KippHuntress getting posts for this if I can't.
+1
;D
+1
Joking aside, really, thanks for this. Hopefully the spammers actually see and pay attention to this post since the storm is beyond old at this point. It really isn't hard to make quality posts.
Post by: nmur on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:17:51
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:19:20
yeah it's getting pretty out of handLike why does Topre feel like Topre? :D
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
Post by: asdfjkl36 on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:20:32
But yea, the spamming was getting a bit out of hand.
We can only hope they see this.
Post by: nmur on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:20:58
yeah it's getting pretty out of handLike why does Topre feel like Topre? :D
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
yep
Post by: whmeltonjr on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:23:21
yeah it's getting pretty out of handLike why does Topre feel like Topre? :D
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
+1
Seriously though, it is super annoying to see the new posts page filled with one user's name and see a bunch of one liners and general **** posts that add nothing. I have no problem with seeing a user post multiple times if they're adding something, but to see a post get bumped and have "CoOl CaPs Br0!!!1!!!!11!1" is obnoxious.
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:24:32
Post by: jbondeson on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:25:02
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:25:57
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Post by: KippHuntress on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:26:47
yeah it's getting pretty out of handLike why does Topre feel like Topre? :D
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
topre is its own animal, and i recommend it more so to new users coming over from rubber domes. the Jump to MX may be a bit overwhelming, i mean there are ALOT of complex parts on those switches. The sheer learning curve of those mechanical switches can frustrate the laymen back to using there ipod for typing habits. While topre has that familiar rubber dome comfort with some snap. Not to mention that weird conical spring which most new users confuse with having to deal with resistance in the switch. Unfortunately the topre price point is counter active to my suggestion for an easier transition. did i answer your question? **** it just buy something shiny on massdrop
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:26:49
Why do MX not feel like Topre?
But yea, the spamming was getting a bit out of hand.
We can only hope they see this.
i would rather hope that the mods and Bro figure out a better way to do what they're trying to do (because i think his goal is fine -- helping bro caps go to people who contribute to the community, or something).
Post by: Firebolt1914 on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:27:05
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:27:12
yeah it's getting pretty out of handLike why does Topre feel like Topre? :D
I can even see threads (regarding topics that have already been well discussed, etc) that I can only assume are made by users so they can get easy replies and then reply back for ez post boosts
I might just be paranoid though
topre is its own animal, and i recommend it more so to new users coming over from rubber domes. the Jump to MX may be a bit overwhelming, i mean there are ALOT of complex parts on those switches. The sheer learning curve of those mechanical switches can frustrate the laymen back to using there ipod for typing habits. While topre has that familiar rubber dome comfort with some snap. Not to mention that weird conical spring which most new users confuse with having to deal with resistance in the switch. Unfortunately the topre price point is counter active to my suggestion for an easier transition. did i answer your question? **** it just buy something shiny on massdrop
quit geekhack
go away
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:27:20
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:28:28
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
yeah i hope i didn't imply that.
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:29:13
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:29:24
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:29:49
attention bro hos: pls leave ****posting to established ****postersYes we've worked long and hard to make it an art form.
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:30:13
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
Post by: Lurch on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:31:43
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:31:43
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
So spamming with no purpose is OK?
:)) :)) :))
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:32:30
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
So spamming with no purpose is OK?
:)) :)) :))
:-*
its better than waiting in line all night for beanie babies
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:35:34
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
So spamming with no purpose is OK?
:)) :)) :))
:-*
its better than waiting in line all night for beanie babies
That is cool bro, so let it be:
Purposeless spamming is welcome at GH???
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:36:33
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
So spamming with no purpose is OK?
:)) :)) :))
:-*
its better than waiting in line all night for beanie babies
That is cool bro, so let it be:
Purposeless spamming is welcome at GH???
there's a difference between providing ****-level color commentary (which is my kind of spam) and the absolute bull**** that is happening on the board lately. if you don't believe me, please see THIS VERY THREAD by a moderator addressing the issue.
Post by: henz on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:38:04
Post by: sth on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:39:46
Where is this spam that everyone is talking about? i guess i need to browse more :cool:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=76675.msg1920355#msg1920355
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:41:31
The logic behind this seems to be fine; however I think a minimum set of guidelines could be needed. For example, would the post of gif images be considered as spam? or it would be a minimum word count per post to not be considered spam? I am pretty sure that in good faith most people want to contribute with their posts, even if it is just expressing support for a previous posted statement, therefore a little bit more detail on what would be considered spam should be described, for the community to try to stick with it.This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
Even then, any of us spam from time to time, if newcomers will be sanctioned for that, why the rest of us would not? Should the rules be different?
i spam all the time. the difference is, i'm not spamming so i can get my hands on some limited-access keycaps.
So spamming with no purpose is OK?
:)) :)) :))
:-*
its better than waiting in line all night for beanie babies
That is cool bro, so let it be:
Purposeless spamming is welcome at GH???
there's a difference between providing ****-level color commentary (which is my kind of spam) and the absolute bull**** that is happening on the board lately. if you don't believe me, please see THIS VERY THREAD by a moderator addressing the issue.
It is a very fine line, indeed. Any way, I should keep my mouth shut - figuratively - and let the moderators to rule it.
Post by: absyrd on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:42:42
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:47:11
I for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Post by: strict on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:48:45
attention bro hos: pls leave ****posting to established ****posters
+121
Post by: henz on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:53:46
Where is this spam that everyone is talking about? i guess i need to browse more :cool:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=76675.msg1920355#msg1920355
I lulled a little. Tell bro to increase the minimum posts to something silly like 10k then spam and rowdy will be in bro heaven :)
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:55:57
Post by: Lokomotivet on Tue, 03 November 2015, 09:57:58
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:02:07
Or just give us an entry for every 50 posts! :eek:Where is this spam that everyone is talking about? i guess i need to browse more :cool:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=76675.msg1920355#msg1920355
I lulled a little. Tell bro to increase the minimum posts to something silly like 10k then spam and rowdy will be in bro heaven :)
Post by: jdcarpe on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:26:22
I for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Basically, this is what has been happening here post-R00TW0RM*. R00TW0RM can be considered Geekhack's September 1993, and there exist both pre-R00TW0RM and post-R00TW0RM members of the forum.
* I use R00TW0RM as the metric, because it is a turning point in the life of the forum. The actual events which precipitated the influx of new users to Geekhack were twofold:
- _______'s mental breakdown (as evidenced by the degeneration of his post content, which was later remover per his request) and subsequent permaban from the forum, followed by his ban from Deskthority and move to reddit, where he aroused the curiosity of many reddit users who were unfamiliar with Geekhack, and who wondered why he harbored such an obsession with our forum
- The rebuilding and restructuring of the forum, with a bias toward increased membership numbers.
Post by: CPTBadAss on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:29:54
Post by: whmeltonjr on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:31:30
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Oh man that is so devious. I mean, +1
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:32:17
I for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Basically, this is what has been happening here post-R00TW0RM*. R00TW0RM can be considered Geekhack's September 1993, and there exist both pre-R00TW0RM and post-R00TW0RM members of the forum.
* I use R00TW0RM as the metric, because it is a turning point in the life of the forum. The actual events which precipitated the influx of new users to Geekhack were twofold:
- _______'s mental breakdown (as evidenced by the degeneration of his post content, which was later remover per his request) and subsequent permaban from the forum, followed by his ban from Deskthority and move to reddit, where he aroused the curiosity of many reddit users who were unfamiliar with Geekhack, and who wondered why he harbored such an obsession with our forum
- The rebuilding and restructuring of the forum, with a bias toward increased membership numbers.
This is helpful for those of us who weren't around for r00tw0rm. And it's interesting to note the corollaries with the birth of /r/pokersandsneakers or whatever it's called.
Post by: jwaz on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:38:11
Code: [Select]
set topic sticky
Post by: zlittell on Tue, 03 November 2015, 10:48:27
But god forbid people have to put in more effort than +1. It is kind of frustrating seeing these posts. I don't know how you guys refrain from dropping the hammalamma on them fools. They obviously feel as though their community is superior and this one is so inferior it doesn't justify 50 posts of even somewhat quality. That's how it makes me feel when I see people doing this.
Edit:
Thought I might give some tips in here too instead of just my ranting and crying.
Protip #1: Make use of the "Spy on the latest forum posts", "Show unread topics since last visit", and "Show new replies to your posts" buttons.
Protip #2: Mark topics and posts you don't care about as read to remove them from these lists.
Protip #3: Email alerts! Especially for your own threads. This lets you stay on top of threads and create faster back and forth. Meaning better conversations which means more post counts.
Post by: trees on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:07:10
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
+5 to this
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:11:16
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
/me schemes... >:D
:))
Post by: jbondeson on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:32:29
Kind of like putting heads on pikes outside the castle walls :))
Post by: Delirious on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:35:27
I for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Basically, this is what has been happening here post-R00TW0RM*. R00TW0RM can be considered Geekhack's September 1993, and there exist both pre-R00TW0RM and post-R00TW0RM members of the forum.
* I use R00TW0RM as the metric, because it is a turning point in the life of the forum. The actual events which precipitated the influx of new users to Geekhack were twofold:
- _______'s mental breakdown (as evidenced by the degeneration of his post content, which was later remover per his request) and subsequent permaban from the forum, followed by his ban from Deskthority and move to reddit, where he aroused the curiosity of many reddit users who were unfamiliar with Geekhack, and who wondered why he harbored such an obsession with our forum
- The rebuilding and restructuring of the forum, with a bias toward increased membership numbers.
Despite his deserved exile, such person had some ups though, I still remembered that one time when he drilled holes, hammered, saw, and eventually cooked a CC just to see how it would fared against ducky and filco caps.
Post by: Fire Brand on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:40:16
I'm a salty person today sorry
Post by: rpeterclark on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:41:52
MoreI for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Basically, this is what has been happening here post-R00TW0RM*. R00TW0RM can be considered Geekhack's September 1993, and there exist both pre-R00TW0RM and post-R00TW0RM members of the forum.
* I use R00TW0RM as the metric, because it is a turning point in the life of the forum. The actual events which precipitated the influx of new users to Geekhack were twofold:
- _______'s mental breakdown (as evidenced by the degeneration of his post content, which was later remover per his request) and subsequent permaban from the forum, followed by his ban from Deskthority and move to reddit, where he aroused the curiosity of many reddit users who were unfamiliar with Geekhack, and who wondered why he harbored such an obsession with our forum
- The rebuilding and restructuring of the forum, with a bias toward increased membership numbers.
Despite his deserved exile, such person had some ups though, I still remembered that one time when he drilled holes, hammered, saw, and eventually cooked a CC just to see how it would fared against ducky and filco caps.
^ Member since May 2012, 46 posts, careful man, slow down with the spamming!
Post by: Delirious on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:45:45
MoreI for one, have been entertained by the start of The Eternal Brotember.
This is the best way I've heard it put. More than once this past week or so, I've thought about the "eternal September" analogy related to what's been going on here at GH.
For the uninitiated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Basically, this is what has been happening here post-R00TW0RM*. R00TW0RM can be considered Geekhack's September 1993, and there exist both pre-R00TW0RM and post-R00TW0RM members of the forum.
* I use R00TW0RM as the metric, because it is a turning point in the life of the forum. The actual events which precipitated the influx of new users to Geekhack were twofold:
- _______'s mental breakdown (as evidenced by the degeneration of his post content, which was later remover per his request) and subsequent permaban from the forum, followed by his ban from Deskthority and move to reddit, where he aroused the curiosity of many reddit users who were unfamiliar with Geekhack, and who wondered why he harbored such an obsession with our forum
- The rebuilding and restructuring of the forum, with a bias toward increased membership numbers.
Despite his deserved exile, such person had some ups though, I still remembered that one time when he drilled holes, hammered, saw, and eventually cooked a CC just to see how it would fared against ducky and filco caps.
^ Member since May 2012, 46 posts, careful man, slow down with the spamming!
IKR, had to bring my post count up to 0.04 per day
Post by: jbondeson on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:50:44
So like half of every post your something thread is just filled with "respectable" members posting something like wow love your X, those are utter crap post personally most of the "post your X" threads should not give or count towards post count (pretty much the entire media subforum) that's just me though as I find people saying things like that's my dream key/board to be the most annoying thing in the world
Go ahead and add every "X Therapy" thread. We should just move all these into Off Topic and call it a day.
Post by: Fire Brand on Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:55:44
This one gets itSo like half of every post your something thread is just filled with "respectable" members posting something like wow love your X, those are utter crap post personally most of the "post your X" threads should not give or count towards post count (pretty much the entire media subforum) that's just me though as I find people saying things like that's my dream key/board to be the most annoying thing in the world
Go ahead and add every "X Therapy" thread. We should just move all these into Off Topic and call it a day.
But serious maybe not into off topic as it would be **** posts then but just make the post not count if that's possible
Post by: heedpantsnow on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:00:37
On the other hand, I've been encouraged to see quite a few (new?) members with low post counts posting thoughtful insight and questions. So maybe there is some silver lining in all this.
Post by: engicoder on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:02:14
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Post by: rpeterclark on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:40:56
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Right, spamming is the symptom, the cause is the post count requirement. What's that expression?
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:47:48
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Right, spamming is the symptom, the cause is the post count requirement. What's that expression?
You can kill two birds with one horse?
Post by: ideus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 12:49:06
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Right, spamming is the symptom, the cause is the post count requirement. What's that expression?
You can kill two birds with one horse?
Or, the cure is worst than the illness?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:20:25
Post by: 1swt2gs on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:25:05
Quote
Hey look a random post saying nothing here.and right after that post
Quote
Now just have to do that (see above) 25 more times.
Stuff like this is blatantly spam and contributes nothing. Hell, most OG's here would prefer to see a gif over stuff like that. At least ****post smartly and put some thought and effort into it...
Post by: pyrolovesmoney on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:28:46
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:30:05
Really hope I don't get reported. I am power browsing on topics I really care about and hope to get replies to. but to some it may look like spam.
Your posting about BS caps in the keycon subforum makes no sense.
I assume your goal is 50 posts before the bro sale is over. :rolleyes:
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:41:49
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Right, spamming is the symptom, the cause is the post count requirement. What's that expression?
You can kill two birds with one horse?
Don't kick a fresh turd on a hot day?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:46:03
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Post by: pyrolovesmoney on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:53:53
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I thought the same thing, but you guys have some rather interesting stuff compared to reddit. I actually think I will be more active here. The forum layout is confusing as **** to me, but I can get used to it.
Post by: pyrolovesmoney on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:56:26
This is targeted at the people who are trying to post 50 posts in a matter of hours to get into the bro caps sale.
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It started like that for me, just trying to get to 50, but now I actually am interested in some stuff here. I still hope to get to 50 but IDK if I can provide enough insight before time runs out. Trying not to ****post.
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:57:16
Trying not to ****post.
Well you aren't trying very hard.
Post by: pyrolovesmoney on Tue, 03 November 2015, 13:58:37
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
Is this something you stand behind though? Ultimately, you can't dictate that bro have a post limit but have you discussed the ramifications of this with him? I am glad that GH exists thoughm /r/mk can get a little slow.
Post by: heedpantsnow on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:05:50
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
Is this something you stand behind though? Ultimately, you can't dictate that bro have a post limit but have you discussed the ramifications of this with him? I am glad that GH exists thoughm /r/mk can get a little slow.
We welcome your input. There will always be more artisan buys. Better to have insightful posts now, gain respect, and get caps later than to get caps now with crap posts and then people have no respect for you.
Post by: GL1TCH3D on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:17:38
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
Even if noise increases a bit it doesn't mean there's no new content being generated =P
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:19:09
Even if noise increases a bit it doesn't mean there's no new content being generated =P
I think this is about.com's mission statement.
Post by: Wulkes on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:33:27
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:34:42
Unintended consequences are the best consequences.That's where a lot of us came from. ;)
Post by: clacktalk on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:38:00
Post by: demik on Tue, 03 November 2015, 14:58:01
Post by: strict on Tue, 03 November 2015, 15:41:32
Or nah.
You're back!
Post by: shoostep on Tue, 03 November 2015, 16:31:54
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Right, spamming is the symptom, the cause is the post count requirement. What's that expression?
You can kill two birds with one horse?
Don't kick a fresh turd on a hot day?
Were you looking for...
Treat the problem not the symptom?
Anyways, while we are tossing around fun expressions, id like to add
Don't piss in the wind
I've seen some of the spam threads and they are not very interesting to read through, but at least new people are posting and that's not horrible.
Post by: lolpes on Tue, 03 November 2015, 16:34:42
Or nah.
Demik unchained :D
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 16:50:59
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
I have no ill-will towards Bro Caps but linking a business venture to forum activity all but guarantees the signal-to-noise ratio goes way out of wack.
I agree. This wasn't a joint decision between geekhack and Bro, though, in case there's any confusion there.
That's unfortunate. I feel like if you want to limit your market there are probably better ways to approach it, this was inevitably going to be an issue with a post limit. Talking to the mods would have been nice too. :D
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 20:30:44
Proposal: Make all sub-forums for the next month have no count towards post count. Then sit back and watch the mayhem.
Go one better...remove post count entirely. It really doesn't matter. Instead of "need x number of posts to do y" make it "member for x months to do y" Most of the idiots have no patience..they want it now.
Yeah, this is a much better way to handle it, imo. At this rate GH is actually far more in the hole than reddit on the matter. Or at least say "New accounts within the month are not able to enter this sale" which would at least have saved us some of the clutter. Plus, teaching patience in a hobby that requires massive amounts of patience would make sense.
Post by: whmeltonjr on Tue, 03 November 2015, 20:32:19
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:11:27
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:12:26
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:13:50
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Post by: KippHuntress on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:17:52
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:18:33
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
I've noticed my past 4 or 5 posts have not changed my overall count, I assumed it was frozen to stop all the spamming.
Edit: Including this one as well.
Post by: demik on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:24:04
always, sadly.Or nah.
You're back!
you see this?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-family-burbank-man-launched-onto-freeway-sign-20151102-story.html
RIP 2016 FiST
What does spam mean?
look up power user's posts and you'll see what spam is
Post by: inanis on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:33:55
This makes my day. :pI think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Post by: jbondeson on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:41:51
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Gonna be a few sad pandas like this poor fella:
Quote
Does GH have a post limit per day? I was trying to participate in the sale and not ****post but its not counting them any more. I would really like a lycan.
Post by: strict on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:42:18
always, sadly.Or nah.
You're back!
you see this?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-family-burbank-man-launched-onto-freeway-sign-20151102-story.html
RIP 2016 FiSTWhat does spam mean?
look up power user's posts and you'll see what spam is
That is crazy! I hadnt heard about that. Lucky he didnt take anyone else out with him.
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 21:50:06
This makes my day. :pI think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Nothing to see here, move along :rolleyes:
Some of us are just slower than others haha.
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:00:57
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Gonna be a few sad pandas like this poor fella:QuoteDoes GH have a post limit per day? I was trying to participate in the sale and not ****post but its not counting them any more. I would really like a lycan.
I'm sorry, but geekhack is a keyboard forum, not a marketplace, and is run by volunteers. We need to do what we can to keep the quality posts to a maximum and the spam posts to a minimum. I hate to sound like a prick, but I value the mod team's sanity over someone being able to buy a keycap.
Post by: jbondeson on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:06:31
I'm sorry, but geekhack is a keyboard forum, not a marketplace, and is run by volunteers. We need to do what we can to keep the quality posts to a maximum and the spam posts to a minimum. I hate to sound like a prick, but I value the mod team's sanity over someone being able to buy a keycap.
Oh, don't get me wrong I posted that quote because it was hilarious and amazingly tone deaf.
I think it should be #2 in the new Hall of Shame thread...
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:08:09
Post by: raymogi on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:12:54
Seems like Other Geeky Stuff is becoming the new target for post count farmers.
Seconded.
I've seen so many threads getting necroed.
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:14:32
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:17:00
Seems like Other Geeky Stuff is becoming the new target for post count farmers.
You'd think that if you're bothering to go through the effort to spam, you would also then check every once in awhile to verify that the number is in fact going up?
*sigh*
There should definitely be a better alternative to this, a post count minimum just causes too much spam. If it was only by how long you've been registered on the forums then could result in a lot of accounts being created without any activity. If there had to be requirements then I feel that a mix of both would be best for the forums, perhaps 50 posts and 1 or 2 months on the forum. Who knows, but there definitely needs to be a better option.
Well for the actual forum-instilled limits, it's both post count and membership time.
I'm sorry, but geekhack is a keyboard forum, not a marketplace, and is run by volunteers. We need to do what we can to keep the quality posts to a maximum and the spam posts to a minimum. I hate to sound like a prick, but I value the mod team's sanity over someone being able to buy a keycap.
Oh, don't get me wrong I posted that quote because it was hilarious and amazingly tone deaf.
I think it should be #2 in the new Hall of Shame thread...
Oh my bad, I thought you were saying the opposite. :thumb:
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:17:37
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:27:58
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
Post by: njbair on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:37:13
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.Or if you want to establish a minimum post count you should also have a maximum posts per day ratio.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
So, you can post as much as you want, but until your 50+ posts level out to less than 3 per day you can't buy caps.
I know my posts per day is like 7 (every one solid gold) but I've been here longer, so maybe make the ratio a function of their membership length. Minimum 50 posts, and maximum X posts per day times the number of months you've been a member.
Post by: livingspeedbump on Tue, 03 November 2015, 22:51:58
Just to be able to have a chance at a keycap? Sound ideas for sure, though seems like overkill and hard to enforce. At that rate just flat out say "friends only."You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.Or if you want to establish a minimum post count you should also have a maximum posts per day ratio.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
So, you can post as much as you want, but until your 50+ posts level out to less than 3 per day you can't buy caps.
I know my posts per day is like 7 (every one solid gold) but I've been here longer, so maybe make the ratio a function of their membership length. Minimum 50 posts, and maximum X posts per day times the number of months you've been a member.
Post by: chrisism on Tue, 03 November 2015, 23:36:31
Post by: thatsmrdoctortoyou on Tue, 03 November 2015, 23:42:29
But how does one really conclude whether or not someone is spamming? in an active discussion it would not be uncommon to reach 4-5+ post an hour....
Definitely! My feeling is that if users are actively contributing to a post, asking questions, giving advice, sharing media, etc. then they aren't spamming. It's when you see a user post "+1" to discussions which are years old when you start to question if they actually are interested in contributing versus getting a kewl keycap.
Post by: Spopepro on Tue, 03 November 2015, 23:43:25
But how does one really conclude whether or not someone is spamming?
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Post by: chrisism on Tue, 03 November 2015, 23:43:44
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.Or if you want to establish a minimum post count you should also have a maximum posts per day ratio.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
So, you can post as much as you want, but until your 50+ posts level out to less than 3 per day you can't buy caps.
I know my posts per day is like 7 (every one solid gold) but I've been here longer, so maybe make the ratio a function of their membership length. Minimum 50 posts, and maximum X posts per day times the number of months you've been a member.
but then it comes down to people that have say, 300 post, but have been members for 3 years. The post/day count would be a difficult metric to determine how involved a person is within the community. Besides lurkers have their place and this does nothing but punish them. I personally believe in a "If I have nothing worth saying, don't say it at all" approach to things however; this forced involvement is arbitrary and does nothing more then put people like me in an uncomfortable position.
Post by: FrostyToast on Tue, 03 November 2015, 23:50:15
Ideally people should be intrinsically motivated by the simple desire to contribute; Post for the sake of the post and nothing else.
It also doesn't help the conflict that there is a stigma tied to "meaningless" posts. I think that such tomfoolery has its place here as long as people keep it within reason.
I myself have made many **** posts but I don't think anyone has called me out on it since a vast portion of what I post has real content.
If you ask me, I don't think post count should be displayed the way it is. Post count should not be a badge that we wear to feel that we are entitled or above others, rather, a mere statistic hidden from plain view.
Post by: njbair on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:02:23
The problem here is that there are too many extrinsic sources of motivation for posting. (i.e. classifieds, stars, artisans)
Ideally people should be intrinsically motivated by the simple desire to contribute; Post for the sake of the post and nothing else.
It also doesn't help the conflict that there is a stigma tied to "meaningless" posts. I think that such tomfoolery has its place here as long as people keep it within reason.
I myself have made many **** posts but I don't think anyone has called me out on it since a vast portion of what I post has real content.
If you ask me, I don't think post count should be displayed the way it is. Post count should not be a badge that we wear to feel that we are entitled or above others, rather, a mere statistic hidden from plain view.
Post count has its place in the public view. If I'm joining a GB I want the leader to have a respectable presence, and that's an easy way to check. Likewise, advice and answers to my questions are more credible coming from someone with a higher post count. I'm not necessarily saying in the thousands, just high enough to show that they aren't some noob wandering in with no business advising others.
And I'm also okay with tangential posts as long as they don't totally derail the thread, and as long as they're not Emma Stone GIFs.
Post by: Bartlebum on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:11:13
Post by: VesperSAINT on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:27:00
as long as they're not Emma Stone GIFs.
Shots fired. Get Rekt, FrostyToast.
Taylor Swift GIFs > Emma Stone GIFs
GG no re
Post by: Halverson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:27:54
as long as they're not Emma Stone GIFs.
Shots fired. Get Rekt, FrostyToast.
Taylor Swift GIFs > Emma Stone GIFs
GG no re
vesssperrrrrr
Post by: VesperSAINT on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:33:46
vesssperrrrrr
halverrrrrsooooooooon
Shark-senpai <3
Post by: byker on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:34:10
as long as they're not Emma Stone GIFs.
Shots fired. Get Rekt, FrostyToast.
Taylor Swift GIFs > Emma Stone GIFs
GG no re
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
Post by: VesperSAINT on Wed, 04 November 2015, 00:35:46
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Post by: Texchappy on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:11:30
I've been seeing posts such as:QuoteHey look a random post saying nothing here.and right after that postQuoteNow just have to do that (see above) 25 more times.
Stuff like this is blatantly spam and contributes nothing. Hell, most OG's here would prefer to see a gif over stuff like that. At least ****post smartly and put some thought and effort into it...
Hey thanks for calling me out as one of those evil spammers.
As a person that's been over at Reddit and coming over here I feel that I blundered into a bar brawl. Yeah I posted that - in jest and unaware of the reasons and stories behind this Charlie foxtrot. I've come over to learn about my new hobby and be better informed. Mostly what I've learned is to question if GH wants new members.
Post by: lolpes on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:17:10
Post by: 1swt2gs on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:28:54
I've been seeing posts such as:QuoteHey look a random post saying nothing here.and right after that postQuoteNow just have to do that (see above) 25 more times.
Stuff like this is blatantly spam and contributes nothing. Hell, most OG's here would prefer to see a gif over stuff like that. At least ****post smartly and put some thought and effort into it...
Hey thanks for calling me out as one of those evil spammers.
As a person that's been over at Reddit and coming over here I feel that I blundered into a bar brawl. Yeah I posted that - in jest and unaware of the reasons and stories behind this Charlie foxtrot. I've come over to learn about my new hobby and be better informed. Mostly what I've learned is to question if GH wants new members.
Didn't mention any names. Hell, didn't even know that was you, simply just quoted what I saw.
If thats not spam, I don't know what is. But its really not a big deal. Seems like you have since realized it was spam and now contributing to the community. :thumb:
Post by: Bartlebum on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:30:45
But how does one really conclude whether or not someone is spamming? in an active discussion it would not be uncommon to reach 4-5+ post an hour....
How do you have 0 posts?
Post by: Texchappy on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:35:33
I've been seeing posts such as:QuoteHey look a random post saying nothing here.and right after that postQuoteNow just have to do that (see above) 25 more times.
Stuff like this is blatantly spam and contributes nothing. Hell, most OG's here would prefer to see a gif over stuff like that. At least ****post smartly and put some thought and effort into it...
Hey thanks for calling me out as one of those evil spammers.
As a person that's been over at Reddit and coming over here I feel that I blundered into a bar brawl. Yeah I posted that - in jest and unaware of the reasons and stories behind this Charlie foxtrot. I've come over to learn about my new hobby and be better informed. Mostly what I've learned is to question if GH wants new members.
Didn't mention any names. Hell, didn't even know that was you, simply just quoted what I saw.
If thats not spam, I don't know what is. But its really not a big deal. Seems like you have since realized it was spam and now contributing to the community. :thumb:
No problem. Never been called a spammer before and wasn't really sure how to digest that.
Eta: if I was spamming to get on the sale I would have noticed that none of my posts today have counted :-)
Post by: sth on Wed, 04 November 2015, 01:43:37
I think someone actually froze the post counts. I've been watching one member post in several topics, and he hasn't moved off of 49.
Edit: Never mind, I just went up by one.
Hmm
Hmm??? Were they actually frozen?
Huh
Gonna be a few sad pandas like this poor fella:QuoteDoes GH have a post limit per day? I was trying to participate in the sale and not ****post but its not counting them any more. I would really like a lycan.
I'm sorry, but geekhack is a keyboard forum, not a marketplace, and is run by volunteers. We need to do what we can to keep the quality posts to a maximum and the spam posts to a minimum. I hate to sound like a prick, but I value the mod team's sanity over someone being able to buy a keycap.
i love you :-*
Post by: suicidal_orange on Wed, 04 November 2015, 02:28:37
There should definitely be a better alternative to this, a post count minimum just causes too much spam. If it was only by how long you've been registered on the forums then could result in a lot of accounts being created without any activity. If there had to be requirements then I feel that a mix of both would be best for the forums, perhaps 50 posts and 1 or 2 months on the forum. Who knows, but there definitely needs to be a better option.
Well for the actual forum-instilled limits, it's both post count and membership time.
I'd never understood why this was and having been asleep when this was going on I can only imagine how bad it got, but it's now making sense. Like everything in life should have it's a s**t filter - all newbies have to be excluded (even the genuinely interested ones we want in our community) because we live in a world that's half full of asshats who will do anything to get what they want :(
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 04 November 2015, 03:06:45
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Who's forgetting Scarlett Johansson?
PS. Posting here doesn't seem to affect my post count :))
Post by: BunnyLake on Wed, 04 November 2015, 04:32:44
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
you are acting as if this is the effect we tried for
firstly, adding a post count is nothing new, clack factory has required both a post count and minimum amount of time registered on the site before for most sales
gh itself requires a minimum post count for access to certain parts of the forum
right now, we have a huge amount of demand for the product we offer, the rule was put in place to protect the community not destroy it
whilst we cant meet demand, we want to do everything in our power to ensure people within the community have the best possible chance
now, i understand post count is a bit of a ham fisted way to do this, and we certainly dont want to encourage spam, im sure there are plenty of people that invest huge time and money in this community that dont actively post, and it is certainly not our intention to not include people like that, this is a temporary measure taken until we can have a better system in place
rest assured, i am screening accounts, and people just spamming to hit 50 will be seen
we have a much better system planned for the next sale
for now, stop spamming, i will be speaking with hoff about this, and anyone who he himself deems to have been negatively affecting the forum as a direct result of this i will look in to, and take action on a case by case basis
and for everyone making such a fuss about this post count thing, get over it, this is a hobby, and its meant to be fun, from time to time we will have to make decisions that you may not like, but we are looking at the bigger picture, and whilst you may not agree with some of the things we do, we will always be doing it for a reason
nothing last forever, we are keyboard enthusiasts, this is all trial and error
Post by: sth on Wed, 04 November 2015, 04:40:38
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
you are acting as if this is the effect we tried for
firstly, adding a post count is nothing new, clack factory has required both a post count and minimum amount of time registered on the site before for most sales
gh itself requires a minimum post count for access to certain parts of the forum
right now, we have a huge amount of demand for the product we offer, the rule was put in place to protect the community not destroy it
whilst we cant meet demand, we want to do everything in our power to ensure people within the community have the best possible chance
now, i understand post count is a bit of a ham fisted way to do this, and we certainly dont want to encourage spam, im sure there are plenty of people that invest huge time and money in this community that dont actively post, and it is certainly not our intention to not include people like that, this is a temporary measure taken until we can have a better system in place
rest assured, i am screening accounts, and people just spamming to hit 50 will be seen
we have a much better system planned for the next sale
for now, stop spamming, i will be speaking with hoff about this, and anyone who he himself deems to have been negatively affecting the forum as a direct result of this i will look in to, and take action on a case by case basis
and for everyone making such a fuss about this post count thing, get over it, this is a hobby, and its meant to be fun, from time to time we will have to make decisions that you may not like, but we are looking at the bigger picture, and whilst you may not agree with some of the things we do, we will always be doing it for a reason
nothing last forever, we are keyboard enthusiasts, this is all trial and error
i know you probably dont mean this but the way you worded your post equivocates fans of your/bro caps' products to the entire community. that is, at least for me, one of the biggest reasons this 'brotember' has been so obnoxious -- we are seeing a massive influx of your potential customers, who are not necessarily congruent with geekhack community members, new or old.
thanks for taking the time to comment. without knowing more of the details, i still think you guys are pretty good at whipping up hype for collectable boy toys (sorry if that's a pointed statement, but duhhhh) but the way that affects geekhack, to me, the bad outweighs the good by a huge margin.
you basically have free advertising in a community (regardless of how much money you spend on community endeavors, they are still limited to the particular subset of participants) and i think there should be more care exercised in what that advertising entails and the effect it has. but the fact that you have popped in to discuss this at all shows you are thinking about it and i appreciate that.
Post by: BunnyLake on Wed, 04 November 2015, 04:47:54
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
you are acting as if this is the effect we tried for
firstly, adding a post count is nothing new, clack factory has required both a post count and minimum amount of time registered on the site before for most sales
gh itself requires a minimum post count for access to certain parts of the forum
right now, we have a huge amount of demand for the product we offer, the rule was put in place to protect the community not destroy it
whilst we cant meet demand, we want to do everything in our power to ensure people within the community have the best possible chance
now, i understand post count is a bit of a ham fisted way to do this, and we certainly dont want to encourage spam, im sure there are plenty of people that invest huge time and money in this community that dont actively post, and it is certainly not our intention to not include people like that, this is a temporary measure taken until we can have a better system in place
rest assured, i am screening accounts, and people just spamming to hit 50 will be seen
we have a much better system planned for the next sale
for now, stop spamming, i will be speaking with hoff about this, and anyone who he himself deems to have been negatively affecting the forum as a direct result of this i will look in to, and take action on a case by case basis
and for everyone making such a fuss about this post count thing, get over it, this is a hobby, and its meant to be fun, from time to time we will have to make decisions that you may not like, but we are looking at the bigger picture, and whilst you may not agree with some of the things we do, we will always be doing it for a reason
nothing last forever, we are keyboard enthusiasts, this is all trial and error
i know you probably dont mean this but the way you worded your post equivocates fans of your/bro caps' products to the entire community. that is, at least for me, one of the biggest reasons this 'brotember' has been so obnoxious -- we are seeing a massive influx of your potential customers, who are not necessarily congruent with geekhack community members, new or old.
thanks for taking the time to comment. without knowing more of the details, i still think you guys are pretty good at whipping up hype for collectable boy toys (sorry if that's a pointed statement, but duhhhh) but the way that affects geekhack, to me, the bad outweighs the good by a huge margin.
you basically have free advertising in a community (regardless of how much money you spend on community endeavors, they are still limited to the particular subset of participants) and i think there should be more care exercised in what that advertising entails and the effect it has. but the fact that you have popped in to discuss this at all shows you are thinking about it and i appreciate that.
i dont think everyone in the community likes what we do, but i think we do what we do for the members of the community that do like us
i cant be held accountable for the actions of a few idiots, who think that they can spam 50 posts and get a bro cap
as for this thread, and the whole issue, i havent been on gh all month, this is all the first im hearing about it, and my first thoughts and comments about it also
Post by: sth on Wed, 04 November 2015, 04:50:16
i dont think everyone in the community likes what we do, but i think we do what we do for the members of the community that do like us
i cant be held accountable for the actions of a few idiots, who think that they can spam 50 posts and get a bro cap
as for this thread, and the whole issue, i havent been on gh all month, this is all the first im hearing about it, and my first thoughts and comments about it also
yeah im not trying to blame things on you, tbh im surprised you are online at all.
just mentioning in plain terms what i see as a problem, and i guess some appreciation that you're willing to address it, and additionally i am aware that you and BC arent the same person nor do you like, work in perfect concert to do what you do, so rest assured that what i'm saying is not entirely directed at you.
Post by: pr0ximity on Wed, 04 November 2015, 06:07:39
Post by: rpeterclark on Wed, 04 November 2015, 06:24:05
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 04 November 2015, 06:27:47
PSA: No one who is spamming reads this section of the forum way at the bottom of the pile.
:(
Post by: njbair on Wed, 04 November 2015, 06:54:09
PSA: No one who is spamming reads.
FTFY
Post by: livingspeedbump on Wed, 04 November 2015, 07:16:55
Hahaha this is probably true =pPSA: No one who is spamming reads this section of the forum way at the bottom of the pile.
:(
Post by: heedpantsnow on Wed, 04 November 2015, 07:46:07
i dont think everyone in the community likes what we do, but i think we do what we do for the members of the community that do like us
i cant be held accountable for the actions of a few idiots, who think that they can spam 50 posts and get a bro cap
as for this thread, and the whole issue, i havent been on gh all month, this is all the first im hearing about it, and my first thoughts and comments about it also
yeah im not trying to blame things on you, tbh im surprised you are online at all.
just mentioning in plain terms what i see as a problem, and i guess some appreciation that you're willing to address it, and additionally i am aware that you and BC arent the same person nor do you like, work in perfect concert to do what you do, so rest assured that what i'm saying is not entirely directed at you.
Sth, I'm quoting you bc I want you to read this, not because it is directed solely at you. I appreciate and value your insight.
It's easy for us all to forget the things CtrlAlt, Bro, and artisans in general have done for the forum. Bunny in particular has given away so much stuff, including whole $300 keyboards (Advent giveaway last year). They have run awesome GB's.
It's easy to forget that the whole reason for the post count req in the first place was to help GH's membership have better access to Bro Caps' products. Bro will always sell out of his caps, every sale, so it's of no benefit to him to have "free advertising" or to give priority to any group of people. But this is the place that has given him the most support and so he wanted to make sure the membership here had access to his products.
Of course we can all see that we underestimate how selfish/desperate/obsessive people can be to work the system. Hoff and others have said they are taking measures to correct this. Bunny has said that they are taking measures to prevent this.
I personally think it would be great if there were a blanket "first 10 posts of the day counts" rule. You make 30 posts, only the first 10 count. Of course sby could still spam, but at least it would be throttled and maybe they could come up with 10 posts with real content if they had a 24 hour gap to think about it.
For those few who post more than 10x/day legitimately, I don't think they really care about post count (SpamRay, CPTBadAss, and Hoff).
Anyway I love this place no matter what and I'm encouraged to see quite a few new names over the last week posting real content. It's just gotten lost in the spam rage. We all agree and hope that it will die down now that the sale is over. And some of those new folks will stay and contribute, which is a long-term win. If I have to "mark all as read" a couple of times, no biggie. Life will go on.
Post by: ideus on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:01:41
8) 8)
Post by: atlas3686 on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:22:19
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?
(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
Post by: BunnyLake on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:30:28
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?Show Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
if those arent acceptable in every thread, im on the wrong forum
Post by: tronbeaver on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:53:05
You can't force people to use something like a forum and expect quality posts. That is silly logic. While I enjoy both Reddit and GH, all this has done is bring the bad parts of Reddit over to GH in force. Someone should want to participate on their own simply to be a part of the community, not because they want some little keycap. People that simply want to participate just because, are going to be the ones that contribute quality posts to the community. I also feel like there is value in lurking. In many cases, starting off lurking is really where you spend the time reading up on everything and really learning tons. Forcing people to start posting after knowing mechanical keyboards existed for only a week just doesn't seem like a great idea. There are also people that just don't enjoy the social aspect of forums, and I don't really like the idea of forcing them to be like "everyone else" either.
If coordinated with the mods, perhaps a forum could be made where a post count/time limit was needed to post, and thus being able to post on that forum would be needed for sales. In the current state, the mods just got thrown under a bus it seems.
you are acting as if this is the effect we tried for
firstly, adding a post count is nothing new, clack factory has required both a post count and minimum amount of time registered on the site before for most sales
gh itself requires a minimum post count for access to certain parts of the forum
right now, we have a huge amount of demand for the product we offer, the rule was put in place to protect the community not destroy it
whilst we cant meet demand, we want to do everything in our power to ensure people within the community have the best possible chance
now, i understand post count is a bit of a ham fisted way to do this, and we certainly dont want to encourage spam, im sure there are plenty of people that invest huge time and money in this community that dont actively post, and it is certainly not our intention to not include people like that, this is a temporary measure taken until we can have a better system in place
rest assured, i am screening accounts, and people just spamming to hit 50 will be seen
we have a much better system planned for the next sale
for now, stop spamming, i will be speaking with hoff about this, and anyone who he himself deems to have been negatively affecting the forum as a direct result of this i will look in to, and take action on a case by case basis
and for everyone making such a fuss about this post count thing, get over it, this is a hobby, and its meant to be fun, from time to time we will have to make decisions that you may not like, but we are looking at the bigger picture, and whilst you may not agree with some of the things we do, we will always be doing it for a reason
nothing last forever, we are keyboard enthusiasts, this is all trial and error
Well, you can put me on your ****list.
Post by: CPTBadAss on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:54:13
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:57:59
Here's a sad thought: No one spammed Making Stuff Together.
Nah, even the spammers know not to **** with the best sub-forum on here >:D
Post by: Jokrik on Wed, 04 November 2015, 08:59:17
Here's a sad thought: No one spammed Making Stuff Together.
lawl
do you know that even Great Finds got spam
Post by: VesperSAINT on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:07:23
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?Show Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
if those arent acceptable in every thread, im on the wrong forum
Hhnnngg... She's definitely going to have to sandwich in between Tom and Taylor, if only barely in front for T-Swizz. Alison Brie just has better GIFs.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Alison Brie GIFs > Taylor Swift GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs
(http://img.pandawhale.com/99340-alison-brie-hair-flip-gif-Comm-dQt4.gif)
Here's a sad thought: No one spammed Making Stuff Together.
Are Alison Brie and T-Swizz GIFs allowed there?
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7c/b8/4b/7cb84b8736923dc26ea3024e8d204314.gif)
Post by: digi on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:09:59
Post by: Belfong on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:12:08
can you show more Alison's GIF please, please??
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:13:48
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
See, this kinda stuff is exactly the reason why everyone makes fun of Raiders fans. But we shouldn't do that, because illiteracy is a serious issue! :(
Post by: digi on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:14:18
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
See, this kinda stuff is exactly the reason why everyone makes fun of Raiders fans. But we shouldn't do that, because illiteracy is a serious issue! :(
4-3 brother, 4-3.
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:18:02
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?Show Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
if those arent acceptable in every thread, im on the wrong forum
I would ban myself if Alison Brie gifs weren't allowed.
If I am not mistaken, the post counting has been cancel, or confined to very few threads. I do not know if this is general or only applied to some accounts, I had mine got into stall since yesterday, was it because something I wrote? Who knows.
8) 8)
It's universal - you didn't do anything wrong. :thumb:
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:19:07
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:20:31
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
See, this kinda stuff is exactly the reason why everyone makes fun of Raiders fans. But we shouldn't do that, because illiteracy is a serious issue! :(
4-3 brother, 4-3.
With a loss da Bears... DA BEARS!!
Oh, and you're still three games back of the undefeated Broncos. :cool:
Post by: digi on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:21:36
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:21:51
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
See, this kinda stuff is exactly the reason why everyone makes fun of Raiders fans. But we shouldn't do that, because illiteracy is a serious issue! :(
4-3 brother, 4-3.
With a loss da Bears... DA BEARS!!
Oh, and you're still three games back of the undefeated Broncos. :cool:
Broncos suck
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:25:49
Broncos suck
Pack fans be all
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/75adf9c073e229cd074177a9873f5afc/tumblr_nn4hxkIUWJ1ut29p1o1_500.gif)
Post by: zlittell on Wed, 04 November 2015, 09:53:10
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?Show Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
I am pretty sure they sit at the top reigning supreme!
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 04 November 2015, 10:03:49
Broncos suck
Pack fans be allShow Image(https://38.media.tumblr.com/75adf9c073e229cd074177a9873f5afc/tumblr_nn4hxkIUWJ1ut29p1o1_500.gif)
tumblr's blocked at work. I ain't phased. :cool:
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 10:06:48
Broncos suck
Pack fans be allShow Image(https://38.media.tumblr.com/75adf9c073e229cd074177a9873f5afc/tumblr_nn4hxkIUWJ1ut29p1o1_500.gif)
tumblr's blocked at work. I ain't phased. :cool:
And that's what I get for hot linking D:
Post by: atlas3686 on Wed, 04 November 2015, 10:54:33
if those arent acceptable in every thread, im on the wrong forum
Hhnnngg... She's definitely going to have to sandwich in between Tom and Taylor, if only barely in front for T-Swizz. Alison Brie just has better GIFs.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Alison Brie GIFs > Taylor Swift GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFsShow Image(http://img.pandawhale.com/99340-alison-brie-hair-flip-gif-Comm-dQt4.gif)Here's a sad thought: No one spammed Making Stuff Together.
Are Alison Brie and T-Swizz GIFs allowed there?Show Image(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/7c/b8/4b/7cb84b8736923dc26ea3024e8d204314.gif)
I would ban myself if Alison Brie gifs weren't allowed.
This is why I love GH, glad to see we all on the same page
(http://i.imgur.com/m1pb2.gif)
Post by: MeltingTeeth on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:11:12
Post by: absyrd on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:16:22
This is why I love GH, glad to see we all on the same pageShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/m1pb2.gif)
Is that a more recent Alison gif? She looks all tone in her arms. Hope she didn't lose those mesmerizing tatas.
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:19:11
This is why I love GH, glad to see we all on the same pageShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/m1pb2.gif)
Is that a more recent Alison gif? She looks all tone in her arms. Hope she didn't lose those mesmerizing tatas.
They look to still be fairly intact. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Post by: Michael on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:23:05
Post by: jbondeson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:26:14
ripster felt this was important enough to sticky his r/mk thread.
There ya go, you've officially made it to the big time... or something. ^-^
Post by: Michael on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:27:40
ripster felt this was important enough to sticky his r/mk thread.
There ya go, you've officially made it to the big time... or something. ^-^
I feel deeply honored...
Post by: zlittell on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:33:51
ripster felt this was important enough to sticky his r/mk thread.
Of course he did. Because why be a normal moderator and pin something while saying "Hey guys come on knock it off" and instead just go with his standard "Look at me Look at me" routine. Its almost like he is banned from here for a reason.
Post by: Halverson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:39:45
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
I will shank you
Post by: Steezus on Wed, 04 November 2015, 11:46:53
ripster felt this was important enough to sticky his r/mk thread.
Of course he did. Because why be a normal moderator and pin something while saying "Hey guys come one knock it off" and instead just go with his standard "Look at me Look at me" routine. Its almost like he is banned from here for a reason.
I rarely go on Reddit anymore because of how downhill r/MK has been lately, decided to look at ripster's posts and he is nothing but an attention ****. Especially looking at his /r/keyboardcirclejerk thread, he doesn't even try to hide his immaturity.
Post by: digi on Wed, 04 November 2015, 12:29:24
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
I will shank you
...and Halv <3
Post by: Halverson on Wed, 04 November 2015, 12:32:50
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
I will shank you
...and Halv <3
There we go! Now let's go spam! <3
Post by: digi on Wed, 04 November 2015, 13:12:58
TL; DR, you're all dumb..except Hoff and Capt.
I will shank you
...and Halv <3
There we go! Now let's go spam! <3
Ready!...Set!....
*UDSFJ#(* ugga
oiajsdofijas dofijas dofijas dfoiajsd fBUGGA
aoisjdfoaijsd foiajs dfoija
asdp
fija sdopifj aosdifj
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apisoj df
How was that?
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 04 November 2015, 13:22:15
Ready!...Set!....
*UDSFJ#(* ugga
oiajsdofijas dofijas dofijas dfoiajsd fBUGGA
aoisjdfoaijsd foiajs dfoija
asdp
fija sdopifj aosdifj
af
apisoj df
How was that?
+1
Post by: ideus on Wed, 04 November 2015, 13:53:39
What about the tom cruise gifs?!
BRUH.
Tom Cruise GIFs > Taylor Swizz GIFs >>>>>> Emma Stone GIFs, BRUH.
Just so I understand where do Alison Brie gifs fit into all of this....?Show Image(https://media.giphy.com/media/QRiTzPV4TstQA/giphy.gif)
if those arent acceptable in every thread, im on the wrong forum
I would ban myself if Alison Brie gifs weren't allowed.If I am not mistaken, the post counting has been cancel, or confined to very few threads. I do not know if this is general or only applied to some accounts, I had mine got into stall since yesterday, was it because something I wrote? Who knows.
8) 8)
It's universal - you didn't do anything wrong. :thumb:
Awesome, then now is my opportunity to spam harmlessly all day long.
Post by: vivalarevolución on Wed, 04 November 2015, 19:34:55
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Post by: ideus on Wed, 04 November 2015, 21:37:47
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Post by: vivalarevolución on Thu, 05 November 2015, 06:48:07
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Well, the general illness seems like greed and mindless consumerism for needless items, so if we can get rid or that, then we'll all get along without an issue!
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 05 November 2015, 06:53:01
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Well, the general illness seems like greed and mindless consumerism for needless items, so if we can get rid or that, then we'll all get along without an issue!
Something tells me the general public would consider anything mechanical keyboard related 'needless items'.
So lets all use $5 rubber dome boards and just shut this place down. :rolleyes:
Post by: heedpantsnow on Thu, 05 November 2015, 07:05:32
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Well, the general illness seems like greed and mindless consumerism for needless items, so if we can get rid or that, then we'll all get along without an issue!
Something tells me the general public would consider anything mechanical keyboard related 'needless items'.
So lets all use $5 rubber dome boards and just shut this place down. :rolleyes:
This, plus the fact that this whole hobby is basically about acquiring something and then acquiring more somethings to fix it/pimp it/upgrade it. So separating the community from those who provide said services is easier said than done. And possibly counterproductive. And you better get rid of the Classifieds section too, since people often make money there.
Post by: vivalarevolución on Thu, 05 November 2015, 07:16:51
Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Well, the general illness seems like greed and mindless consumerism for needless items, so if we can get rid or that, then we'll all get along without an issue!
Something tells me the general public would consider anything mechanical keyboard related 'needless items'.
So lets all use $5 rubber dome boards and just shut this place down. :rolleyes:
Agreed!
Post by: tronbeaver on Thu, 05 November 2015, 10:54:31
Ready!...Set!....
*UDSFJ#(* ugga
oiajsdofijas dofijas dofijas dfoiajsd fBUGGA
aoisjdfoaijsd foiajs dfoija
asdp
fija sdopifj aosdifj
af
apisoj df
How was that?
+1
+2
Post by: Texchappy on Thu, 05 November 2015, 15:28:49
Post by: whmeltonjr on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:24:14
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:26:22
I just want the what's bothering you thread to come back. :(@hoffmanmyster help us out
Post by: livingspeedbump on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:40:53
I just want the what's bothering you thread to come back. :(@hoffmanmyster help us out
wait?!?! what happened to it??
Post by: jbondeson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:44:22
I just want the what's bothering you thread to come back. :(@hoffmanmyster help us out
wait?!?! what happened to it??
A mod locked it again, but without leaving a note this time.
Where else am I going to complain about my 1st World Problems? :(
Post by: Steezus on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:48:05
Post by: inanis on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:49:13
Please, Hoff.....
Post by: whmeltonjr on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:49:41
The "What's Bothering You?" thread has turned into a **** flinging contest, people just bringing their problems from outside Geekhack into the forums against one another.
It got pretty ugly before it locked. Off Topic section has seemed slower since it got locked, but maybe that's just me.
Post by: jbondeson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:49:49
The "What's Bothering You?" thread has turned into a **** flinging contest, people just bringing their problems from outside Geekhack into the forums against one another.
You know what's bothering me? That other people who didn't learn anything in kindergarten have caused me to not be able to ***** and moan about my problems!
:mad:
Post by: ideus on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:50:52
I noticed the post counter is still off. Is it coming back?
It has gone forever.
Post by: livingspeedbump on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:50:58
The "What's Bothering You?" thread has turned into a **** flinging contest, people just bringing their problems from outside Geekhack into the forums against one another.
ha i can see that. didn't check it much because then it just made me more stressed =O
Post by: livingspeedbump on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:51:17
I noticed the post counter is still off. Is it coming back?
It has gone forever.
that would be awesome :))
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:51:17
My mom still has the note from my kindergarten teacher saying I talked to much.The "What's Bothering You?" thread has turned into a **** flinging contest, people just bringing their problems from outside Geekhack into the forums against one another.
You know what's bothering me? That other people who didn't learn anything in kindergarten have caused me to not be able to ***** and moan about my problems!
:mad:
Post by: jbondeson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 17:55:12
My mom still has the note from my kindergarten teacher saying I talked to much.
*jbondeson looks at SpAmRaY's post count
Yeah, sounds about right... :p
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:20:57
I too want the What's Bothering You thread back ASAP. We should not all have to suffer.
Please, Hoff.....
I know this is ruining the fun for everyone. :( I even was about to post something in it last night but couldn't because it's locked. :'( (I actually could post in it, but that's not fair)
My mom still has the note from my kindergarten teacher saying I talked to much.
*jbondeson looks at SpAmRaY's post count
Yeah, sounds about right... :p
Pro tip:
Code: [Select]
/mewill give you the same result as what you did there.Code: [Select]
/me cries=/me cries
:thumb:
Post by: Coreda on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:30:02
I think there was a 'things you hate' thread too. Fake edit: yup. It's still alive (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36885.new#new).
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:30:45
Post by: inanis on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:32:33
I too want the What's Bothering You thread back ASAP. We should not all have to suffer.
Please, Hoff.....
I know this is ruining the fun for everyone. :( I even was about to post something in it last night but couldn't because it's locked. :'( (I actually could post in it, but that's not fair)
So how much longer are we all in time out? Infinitely?
Also...
/me likes this trick
Post by: jbondeson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:33:31
Pro tip:Code: [Select]/mewill give you the same result as what you did there.Code: [Select]/me cries=
/me cries
:thumb:
Well at least something good has come out of all this!
(http://i.imgur.com/IW8simF.gif)
Post by: nmur on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:36:09
* nmur slaps HoffmanMyster around a bit with a large trout
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:37:03
So how much longer are we all in time out? Infinitely?
Also...
/me likes this trick
:))
Timeout - a nice way of putting it :)
Post by: jbondeson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:40:26
testing /slap
* nmur slaps HoffmanMyster around a bit with a large trout
/me waits for nmur to try the Alt+F4 gag next...
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:42:40
I too want the What's Bothering You thread back ASAP. We should not all have to suffer.
Please, Hoff.....
I know this is ruining the fun for everyone. :( I even was about to post something in it last night but couldn't because it's locked. :'( (I actually could post in it, but that's not fair)
So how much longer are we all in time out? Infinitely?
Also...
/me likes this trick
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
Post by: Sent on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:44:01
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
So...timeout forever. Gotcha. :))
Post by: jwaz on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:53:28
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
+1
Post by: heedpantsnow on Thu, 05 November 2015, 18:56:55
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
+1
It's pretty much the same kiddies each time.
/me feels old. Get off my lawn!
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 05 November 2015, 19:58:50
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
So...timeout forever. Gotcha. :))
QFT, unfortunately.
Post by: njbair on Thu, 05 November 2015, 20:28:37
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 05 November 2015, 20:47:02
MoreI too want the What's Bothering You thread back ASAP. We should not all have to suffer.
Please, Hoff.....
I know this is ruining the fun for everyone. :( I even was about to post something in it last night but couldn't because it's locked. :'( (I actually could post in it, but that's not fair)
So how much longer are we all in time out? Infinitely?
Also...
/me likes this trick
Until all the kiddies agree to stop throwing tantrums in it.
I think these three gifs sum up the last couple of pages of that thread:
(https://the16percent.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/do-not-care-ron-swanson-gif.gif)
(https://badsalad.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/anger-management.gif)
(http://media.tumblr.com/56fcd76e76daac4f63fd2d2e17340691/tumblr_inline_mumprtcj461sohk3w.gif)
Post by: FrostyToast on Thu, 05 November 2015, 20:50:18
All of you. Reported.
(http://media.giphy.com/media/sVZwCKdihacRW/giphy.gif)
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 05 November 2015, 21:07:31
I hop in this thread and all I see is hate being spammed at me.
All of you. Reported.Show Image(http://media.giphy.com/media/sVZwCKdihacRW/giphy.gif)
(https://i.imgur.com/cTDHmh.jpg)
Post by: Halverson on Thu, 05 November 2015, 21:12:07
/me is shocked to learn this sekrit formatting taken straight from IRC.
I think there was a 'things you hate' thread too. Fake edit: yup. It's still alive (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36885.new#new).
oh hey look, me+hate in that link!
Post by: sth on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:29:24
MoreI too want the What's Bothering You thread back ASAP. We should not all have to suffer.
Please, Hoff.....
I know this is ruining the fun for everyone. :( I even was about to post something in it last night but couldn't because it's locked. :'( (I actually could post in it, but that's not fair)My mom still has the note from my kindergarten teacher saying I talked to much.
*jbondeson looks at SpAmRaY's post count
Yeah, sounds about right... :p
Pro tip:Code: [Select]/mewill give you the same result as what you did there.Code: [Select]/me cries=
/me cries
:thumb:
dangit hoff i thought we agreed no talking about irc on the boards
MoreThis, plus the fact that this whole hobby is basically about acquiring something and then acquiring more somethings to fix it/pimp it/upgrade it. So separating the community from those who provide said services is easier said than done. And possibly counterproductive. And you better get rid of the Classifieds section too, since people often make money there.Yeah, well, this is what happens when you encourage people to host their profit ventures on your community platform.
Yea, have to agree here, that seems like the root of it all.
Add on top of that problem, this one: Treat the symptom, not the illness; then, you have a happy family.
Well, the general illness seems like greed and mindless consumerism for needless items, so if we can get rid or that, then we'll all get along without an issue!
Something tells me the general public would consider anything mechanical keyboard related 'needless items'.
So lets all use $5 rubber dome boards and just shut this place down. :rolleyes:
just for the sake of visibility, no, not really, not for all of us. sure i enjoy having some colorful keycaps but i'm a lot more interested in making boards and supporting projects like tmk than i am in 'acquiring' and 'pimping'. i know i'm not the only one.
+1 for getting rid of the classifieds section :thumb:
Post by: Belfong on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:54:08
Post by: Coreda on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:56:15
lmao
demik showing how its done
Post by: byker on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:56:29
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 02:57:36
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members sub :P :P
so you dont want me to be nice?
i dont get you guys. im an *******, and im rude and you want the nice demik. im nice and now im spamming.
Post by: Belfong on Fri, 06 November 2015, 03:00:26
I like the ******* demik, ha ha ha! There’s no pretense.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members sub :P :P
so you dont want me to be nice?
i dont get you guys. im an *******, and im rude and you want the nice demik. im nice and now im spamming.
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 03:01:00
I like the ******* demik, ha ha ha! There’s no pretense.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members sub :P :P
so you dont want me to be nice?
i dont get you guys. im an *******, and im rude and you want the nice demik. im nice and now im spamming.
k, gonna go edit all my posts insulting them
Post by: darkclone24 on Fri, 06 November 2015, 03:02:15
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members sub :P :P
so you dont want me to be nice?
i dont get you guys. im an *******, and im rude and you want the nice demik. im nice and now im spamming.
It kind of makes "unread" unusable:
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Post by: Belfong on Fri, 06 November 2015, 03:02:25
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 03:04:17
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members sub :P :P
so you dont want me to be nice?
i dont get you guys. im an *******, and im rude and you want the nice demik. im nice and now im spamming.
It kind of makes "unread" unusable:Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/18bd398ed9c123a9dedb90a51ccb9884.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/eecaa051c9855bda1a7b1e175659e871.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/cbe4323d5df70ce9d70322dc2bc9381f.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/6165cf3b0192a503bef21780387de373.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/0586c15ade72c33003f6d9896fee6a18.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/c4620a675bfc41079436c64154f114ba.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/fda91d558c942f56be629c3031090908.jpg)Show Image(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/06/b2fb90f872ed98aa383ba0d5132f7a78.jpg)
not really. i mean you havent read all of that.
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 07:29:06
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 07:33:15
From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 07:40:50
From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
If there is some, it is interlaced with the fact that you are well know around here, a sort of local celebrity.
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 07:51:53
You know how sometimes you're having an okay day and then you get kicked in the **** to remind you your life is ****?From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
If there is some, it is interlaced with the fact that you are well know around here, a sort of local celebrity.
I'm a local gh celebrity is that kick in the ****.
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 07:56:16
You know how sometimes you're having an okay day and then you get kicked in the **** to remind you your life is ****?From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
If there is some, it is interlaced with the fact that you are well know around here, a sort of local celebrity.
I'm a local gh celebrity is that kick in the ****.
I am very sorry to know that bro, it was suppose to be a compliment.
Being myself a relatively new member of GH I felt more engaged with the community when I have the opportunity to talk to well know individuals, but again, sorry.
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:02:18
Being myself a relatively new member of GH
You've been here almost 3 years? How is that relatively new? :P
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:03:58
Being myself a relatively new member of GH
You've been here almost 3 years? How is that relatively new? :p
You've been here like forever, that makes my three some years nothing, relatively. :)) :))
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:05:42
Being myself a relatively new member of GH
You've been here almost 3 years? How is that relatively new? :p
You've been here like forever, that makes my three some years nothing, relatively. :)) :))
You registered before Ray. :P
Post by: sth on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:07:02
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:08:49
Being myself a relatively new member of GH
You've been here almost 3 years? How is that relatively new? :p
You've been here like forever, that makes my three some years nothing, relatively. :)) :))
You registered before Ray. :p
Really? I cannot believe that, well; you guys have all my respect, that's why I still feel that I am relatively new here. :) :)
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:13:45
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:20:10
You know how sometimes you're having an okay day and then you get kicked in the **** to remind you your life is ****?From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
If there is some, it is interlaced with the fact that you are well know around here, a sort of local celebrity.
I'm a local gh celebrity is that kick in the ****.
I am very sorry to know that bro, it was suppose to be a compliment.
Being myself a relatively new member of GH I felt more engaged with the community when I have the opportunity to talk to well know individuals, but again, sorry.
No need to be. Personal issues
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:20:56
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
What? are you kidding? I am the same old old fart as always, not bipolar, with a lovely daughter and a caring and supporting wife, happily living in this side of the Bravo.
Post by: heedpantsnow on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:21:34
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
But if you already have one then you are using multiple accounts.
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:25:24
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
What? are you kidding? I am the same old old fart as always, not bipolar, with a lovely daughter and a caring and supporting wife, happily living in this side of the Bravo.
Did you seriously not move to mexico? I'm going crazy. :eek:
The other stuff wasn't directed at you, I really do think some accounts are multiple people just due to their varies posting styles and responses. :D
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:27:34
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
What? are you kidding? I am the same old old fart as always, not bipolar, with a lovely daughter and a caring and supporting wife, happily living in this side of the Bravo.
Did you seriously not move to mexico? I'm going crazy. :o
The other stuff wasn't directed at you, I really do think some accounts are multiple people just due to their varies posting styles and responses. :D
This side = my current side, that by now is Mexico. LOL, I have never thought that a naive comment may drives this crazy posting.
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:31:19
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
What? are you kidding? I am the same old old fart as always, not bipolar, with a lovely daughter and a caring and supporting wife, happily living in this side of the Bravo.
Did you seriously not move to mexico? I'm going crazy. :o
The other stuff wasn't directed at you, I really do think some accounts are multiple people just due to their varies posting styles and responses. :D
This side = my current side, that by now is Mexico. LOL, I have never thought that a naive comment may drives this crazy posting.
At least I know I'm not crazy now.
PS: How is life in Mexico? I've never been there. Is it really dusty? That might be bad for your keyboards. ;)
Post by: ideus on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:46:09
ITT ideus is outing himself as someone who bought the REAL ideus' account in order to get into Bro's sales.Well he claimed he recently 'moved' to mexico so that's entirely possible. :shiftyeyes:
There are a few accounts I swear more than one person uses. (Unless people are bipolar and/or multiple personalities, which if so is totally fine.)
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
What? are you kidding? I am the same old old fart as always, not bipolar, with a lovely daughter and a caring and supporting wife, happily living in this side of the Bravo.
Did you seriously not move to mexico? I'm going crazy. :o
The other stuff wasn't directed at you, I really do think some accounts are multiple people just due to their varies posting styles and responses. :D
This side = my current side, that by now is Mexico. LOL, I have never thought that a naive comment may drives this crazy posting.
At least I know I'm not crazy now.
PS: How is life in Mexico? I've never been there. Is it really dusty? That might be bad for your keyboards. ;)
It depends on the region and city you live in, where I live is a very well developed urban area with over 1.4 million population, not dusty at all.
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:47:59
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
It's really not something that could be tracked, and I don't see a huge issue with it. If someone wants to share their account, they accept liability for the actions.
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 08:59:02
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
It's really not something that could be tracked, and I don't see a huge issue with it. If someone wants to share their account, they accept liability for the actions.
You sure about that?
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:01:50
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
It's really not something that could be tracked, and I don't see a huge issue with it. If someone wants to share their account, they accept liability for the actions.
You sure about that?
I said multiple things. Pls clarify.
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 09:19:35
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
It's really not something that could be tracked, and I don't see a huge issue with it. If someone wants to share their account, they accept liability for the actions.
You sure about that?
I said multiple things. Pls clarify.
One sn to rule them all. For friends and family.
Post by: livingspeedbump on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:39:22
While I'm thinking of it, is it against TOS to have multiple people using a singular account?
It's really not something that could be tracked, and I don't see a huge issue with it. If someone wants to share their account, they accept liability for the actions.
You sure about that?
I said multiple things. Pls clarify.
One sn to rule them all. For friends and family.
If i every say anything bat-****-crazy its just the MrsSpeedBump using my account, so don't mind me.
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:48:44
Post by: inanis on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:51:33
Right right blame the wife
For gender fairness I blame my husband for **** all the time. Only I'm usually right, of course. ;)
Post by: neverused on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:52:45
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
Post by: livingspeedbump on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:55:05
Right right blame the wife
Well, it was her or the cats :))
Post by: livingspeedbump on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:55:42
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
Post by: whmeltonjr on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:56:41
i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
I agree. I know I haven't been here long, but I think it is important for everyone to know what they're in for up front rather than finding out the hard way later on. :p
Post by: neverused on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:56:46
Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
Post by: fknraiden on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:58:57
Post by: neverused on Fri, 06 November 2015, 12:59:14
HilariousYou know how sometimes you're having an okay day and then you get kicked in the **** to remind you your life is ****?From time to time, I have seen surges on threads alluding demik and I wonder who he was, now, after these few years I have been around I am glad I finally met one of the iconic members of the board.I can almost taste the sarcasm in this post.
If there is some, it is interlaced with the fact that you are well know around here, a sort of local celebrity.
I'm a local gh celebrity is that kick in the ****.
Post by: livingspeedbump on Fri, 06 November 2015, 13:04:59
When I hear about the GeekHack exclusivity I knew this post was going to happen. Hopefully it gets people actively engaged in the forums.
Haha, yeah, I saw this coming from a mile away. RedditHack was inevitable.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 06 November 2015, 13:07:21
A solid dose of demik is good forthe new userseveryone ;D
ftfy
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 14:19:18
Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
Post by: neverused on Fri, 06 November 2015, 16:21:04
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
Post by: beehatch on Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:32:32
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
Post by: neverused on Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:34:25
Ok well almost all<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
Post by: demik on Fri, 06 November 2015, 17:43:01
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
reported
Post by: beehatch on Sat, 07 November 2015, 00:16:48
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
reported
not like your reports even matter
Post by: demik on Sat, 07 November 2015, 00:33:40
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
reported
not like your reports even matter
this is true
Post by: MeltingTeeth on Sat, 07 November 2015, 11:41:18
<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
reported
not like your reports even matter
this is true
Good thing this thread has no spam.
Post by: neverused on Sat, 07 November 2015, 11:51:09
Reported<3 I actually enjoy almost every single one of your posts that I have read.Like an antibiotic.i wish demik will stop spamming New Members subHe went nuts in there last night
A solid dose of demik is good for the new users ;D
You might get the ****s but it's for your own good and health.
mfw compared to diarrhea.
this is my life
how about the one when he wished everyone on GH got cancer?
ayyyyy
reported
not like your reports even matter
this is true
Good thing this thread has no spam.
Post by: ideus on Sat, 07 November 2015, 13:21:12
Post by: demik on Sat, 07 November 2015, 14:06:51
The title of this thread should be changed to "PSA: Go Spamming". That may reflect better its content.
Around these here parts we like to call it Raying.
Post by: absyrd on Sat, 07 November 2015, 15:01:49
The title of this thread should be changed to "PSA: Go Spamming". That may reflect better its content.
Around these here parts we like to call it Raying.
Raybanned.
Post by: ideus on Sat, 07 November 2015, 16:04:09
The title of this thread should be changed to "PSA: Go Spamming". That may reflect better its content.
Around these here parts we like to call it Raying.
Raybanned.
Go raying!
Post by: demik on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:15:37
Post by: ideus on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:25:14
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:27:07
Go demiking!
I've never been demiking before - is any special equipment required?
Post by: whmeltonjr on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:28:47
Go demiking!
I've never been demiking before - is any special equipment required?
Try to get all of the "new posts" to be just one user. demik is on a posting rampage again lol.
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:38:55
Go demiking!
I've never been demiking before - is any special equipment required?
Try to get all of the "new posts" to be just one user. demik is on a posting rampage again lol.
Last time I tried that I got in trouble :(
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 November 2015, 21:40:05
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
Post by: Zanduby on Mon, 09 November 2015, 08:30:56
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Post by: ideus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:22:24
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Post by: Steezus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:26:48
Just forget about the post count brothers. Imagine you are at DT where post count does not count, at all. :p
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Everybody can see that as well, I just tried and saw you're at 5098. Either way I don't mind the post count being stopped, it doesn't stop me from posting.
Post by: Zanduby on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:28:28
Just forget about the post count brothers. Imagine you are at DT where post count does not count, at all. :p
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Everybody can see that as well, I just tried and saw you're at 5098. Either way I don't mind the post count being stopped, it doesn't stop me from posting.
I really don't care about the count as well. Just trying to get my foot in the door here. I'm starting to recognize a lot of names.
Post by: ideus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:31:51
Just forget about the post count brothers. Imagine you are at DT where post count does not count, at all. :p
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Everybody can see that as well, I just tried and saw you're at 5098. Either way I don't mind the post count being stopped, it doesn't stop me from posting.
I share the same feeling, I will be posting, no matter what, and trying each time to add something to the conversation, at least a smile some times. The only case I avoid to post is when what I can say may not add anything to the conversation.
Post by: Steezus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:45:23
Just forget about the post count brothers. Imagine you are at DT where post count does not count, at all. :p
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Everybody can see that as well, I just tried and saw you're at 5098. Either way I don't mind the post count being stopped, it doesn't stop me from posting.
I share the same feeling, I will be posting, no matter what, and trying each time to add something to the conversation, at least a smile some times. The only case I avoid to post is when what I can say may not add anything to the conversation.
I try my best to continue the conversation or add some benefits as well. Even asking questions can be beneficial for some threads like ICs and GBs as long as the same question wasn't already asked. I won't lie though, when I first started posting here I didn't really know what to post and would leave the occasional "interested" and such. The longer you stay on Geekhack the more you start to appreciate it, the more you want to contribute, the better your posts become.
Post by: ideus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 09:51:21
Just forget about the post count brothers. Imagine you are at DT where post count does not count, at all. :p
If you want to check it, go to Profile>Show Post and check the last page, there you will have your total post, nobody cares about it, nobody can see it, but you.
Everybody can see that as well, I just tried and saw you're at 5098. Either way I don't mind the post count being stopped, it doesn't stop me from posting.
I share the same feeling, I will be posting, no matter what, and trying each time to add something to the conversation, at least a smile some times. The only case I avoid to post is when what I can say may not add anything to the conversation.
I try my best to continue the conversation or add some benefits as well. Even asking questions can be beneficial for some threads like ICs and GBs as long as the same question wasn't already asked. I won't lie though, when I first started posting here I didn't really know what to post and would leave the occasional "interested" and such. The longer you stay on Geekhack the more you start to appreciate it, the more you want to contribute, the better your posts become.
GH is a very good reading and writing exercise, while you are expanding your keyboard knowledge, so I enjoy it greatly. Keep posting, each time you will be getting better.
Post by: Steezus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 10:56:39
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Looks like the answer is a no, with posts counting now I haven't seen anybody's jump a significant amount. At least it helped filter a lot of nonsense in the forums. :thumb:
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Mon, 09 November 2015, 10:58:24
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Looks like the answer is a no, with posts counting now I haven't seen anybody's jump a significant amount. At least it helped filter a lot of nonsense in the forums. :thumb:
There's no way to make them jump like that, so it will just effectively be a "dead zone" of posting that didn't count.
Post by: Steezus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 11:00:28
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Looks like the answer is a no, with posts counting now I haven't seen anybody's jump a significant amount. At least it helped filter a lot of nonsense in the forums. :thumb:
There's no way to make them jump like that, so it will just effectively be a "dead zone" of posting that didn't count.
I figured as much, doesn't really bother me either way. My overall post count can always be seen if need be. Now we just need to find a better way for artisan raffles.
Post by: ideus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 14:09:42
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Looks like the answer is a no, with posts counting now I haven't seen anybody's jump a significant amount. At least it helped filter a lot of nonsense in the forums. :thumb:
There's no way to make them jump like that, so it will just effectively be a "dead zone" of posting that didn't count.
Keep the death zone forever, nobody will care about it after a few months, it will just be a reminiscence of the past; consider that, some brothers at DT happily live with no post counting at all, let's follow the example.
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 09 November 2015, 19:50:50
Another question: when this timeout is over and posts count again, are we suddenly going to get credit for all the posts in countable areas that we've made during the timeout?
Or does it really only count posts actually posted when not in timeout?
I'm honestly wondering this my self. I've been trying to immerse my self here without spamming useless crap. Yes I do want to reach the 50/100 post cap to get to partake in Bro's sales, but i'm not spamming my way there.
Looks like the answer is a no, with posts counting now I haven't seen anybody's jump a significant amount. At least it helped filter a lot of nonsense in the forums. :thumb:
There's no way to make them jump like that, so it will just effectively be a "dead zone" of posting that didn't count.
So we are live again? Out of timeout?
Just thinking of new members who might like to create a thread in classifies one day.
Post by: ideus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 19:58:27
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Mon, 09 November 2015, 20:50:05
I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
Post by: inanis on Mon, 09 November 2015, 21:04:44
And we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
Post by: Steezus on Mon, 09 November 2015, 21:09:10
And we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
Until next Bro sale :p
I keed, it should hopefully be fine now, at least we do have a lot more members now. My first posts weren't anything special either, I can understand that just not the spamming 50 posts a day.
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 10 November 2015, 03:18:08
And we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
You mean this place is normal?
Post by: ideus on Tue, 10 November 2015, 07:14:48
And we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
You mean this place is normal?
The right question is better than a carefully crafted statement.
Post by: inanis on Tue, 10 November 2015, 08:49:24
Normal is relative. :pAnd we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
You mean this place is normal?
Post by: ideus on Tue, 10 November 2015, 08:56:08
Normal is relative. :pAnd we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
You mean this place is normal?
It is GH normal, not normal, as in general normal.
Post by: njbair on Tue, 10 November 2015, 23:39:55
You haven't met my relatives.Normal is relative.And we make one small step back towards normalcy.I have seen the counter moving since a few hours ago. I think it is lived again.
Correct
You mean this place is normal?
Post by: SamirD on Fri, 13 November 2015, 08:16:11
Most forum software have a minimum word count that can be set for a post to even be submitted. I just set that high enough so that a real thought has to be written out for a post to even be submitted. Never really had an issue with the post count bloaters even when I did giveaways that were based on post count.
Post by: Steezus on Fri, 13 November 2015, 09:22:08
What a crazy forum management issue.
Most forum software have a minimum word count that can be set for a post to even be submitted. I just set that high enough so that a real thought has to be written out for a post to even be submitted. Never really had an issue with the post count bloaters even when I did giveaways that were based on post count.
I think it more has to do with people not really caring about the community and just wanting the caps. It looks like their theory is to just spend a day on geekhack, build up enough posts, and only care about the bros. Some people it seems like have ended up staying because they enjoy it here so at least we got a few new members that will be staying. :thumb:
Post by: ideus on Fri, 13 November 2015, 13:22:49
What a crazy forum management issue.
Most forum software have a minimum word count that can be set for a post to even be submitted. I just set that high enough so that a real thought has to be written out for a post to even be submitted. Never really had an issue with the post count bloaters even when I did giveaways that were based on post count.
I think it more has to do with people not really caring about the community and just wanting the caps. It looks like their theory is to just spend a day on geekhack, build up enough posts, and only care about the bros. Some people it seems like have ended up staying because they enjoy it here so at least we got a few new members that will be staying. :thumb:
Is it the plastic, instead of the friendship? That sucks.
Post by: thesiscamper on Fri, 13 November 2015, 16:30:17
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 13 November 2015, 16:51:17
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
It's not that everyone wants to keep some parts of Geekhack exclusive. Bro Caps deciding he only wants to sell his artisan caps to Geekhack members, and only those with a certain number of posts, doesn't exactly reflect the attitude of "everyone" toward newcomers.
Also, new members spamming threads with useless posts to reach a goal of a certain number of posts doesn't exactly give others a good impression of them. It marks them as a "spammer." I believe Bro Caps' intent was to get more enthusiasts to come to Geekhack, and for them to engage in conversation here.
Post by: thesiscamper on Fri, 13 November 2015, 17:02:27
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
It's not that everyone wants to keep some parts of Geekhack exclusive. Bro Caps deciding he only wants to sell his artisan caps to Geekhack members, and only those with a certain number of posts, doesn't exactly reflect the attitude of "everyone" toward newcomers.
Also, new members spamming threads with useless posts to reach a goal of a certain number of posts doesn't exactly give others a good impression of them. It marks them as a "spammer." I believe Bro Caps' intent was to get more enthusiasts to come to Geekhack, and for them to engage in conversation here.
Bro Caps is already popular with redditors and other communities though, if they wanted to contribute here they would have done so before. Their desire for an artisan cap and the post count requirement only invited lots of spammers, which is what the forum has to deal with now. Just sharing my thoughts.
Post by: Zanduby on Fri, 13 November 2015, 17:05:30
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
It's not that everyone wants to keep some parts of Geekhack exclusive. Bro Caps deciding he only wants to sell his artisan caps to Geekhack members, and only those with a certain number of posts, doesn't exactly reflect the attitude of "everyone" toward newcomers.
Also, new members spamming threads with useless posts to reach a goal of a certain number of posts doesn't exactly give others a good impression of them. It marks them as a "spammer." I believe Bro Caps' intent was to get more enthusiasts to come to Geekhack, and for them to engage in conversation here.
I too am new(er) here, I lurked for a long while before actually joining and conversing. The "get off my lawn" mentality isn't really a specific thing here, but that of any forum/board from the beginning of ever. Other boards i've been a part of have those members who joke about those who are newer and/or not knowing of inside jokes. It happens, don't let it bother you. See through it and most members will except you at some point and time.
As far as Bro goes, yes I think that was his point, but it didn't come across as that to quite a few people. Oh well, live and learn and continue on.
Post by: thesiscamper on Fri, 13 November 2015, 17:09:12
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
It's not that everyone wants to keep some parts of Geekhack exclusive. Bro Caps deciding he only wants to sell his artisan caps to Geekhack members, and only those with a certain number of posts, doesn't exactly reflect the attitude of "everyone" toward newcomers.
Just to be clear I'm not questioning BroCaps' motivation, the intention was good but the execution could have been better is what I'm saying. I don't pretend to know how it should have been done, and I don't really want to think about it since I'm not the one who has a say in it.
Also, new members spamming threads with useless posts to reach a goal of a certain number of posts doesn't exactly give others a good impression of them. It marks them as a "spammer." I believe Bro Caps' intent was to get more enthusiasts to come to Geekhack, and for them to engage in conversation here.
I too am new(er) here, I lurked for a long while before actually joining and conversing. The "get off my lawn" mentality isn't really a specific thing here, but that of any forum/board from the beginning of ever. Other boards i've been a part of have those members who joke about those who are newer and/or not knowing of inside jokes. It happens, don't let it bother you. See through it and most members will except you at some point and time.
As far as Bro goes, yes I think that was his point, but it didn't come across as that to quite a few people. Oh well, live and learn and continue on.
Just to be clear I'm not questioning BroCaps' motivation, and I don't pretend to know how it should have been handled.
Post by: suicidal_orange on Fri, 13 November 2015, 17:22:02
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
The thing with spam is if it's all in one thread spy (the list of recently posted in threads) still has room for lots of other threads that are not full of spam - there is often one thread here where spamming is being overlooked. Spamming this thread had the benefit that it kept it in spy so there was actually a chance of someone reading it but hidden down at the bottom of the forum few would otherwise!
In an ideal world everyone would play nice and we wouldn't need to filter who can enter a sale but we live in a world where some people buy caps just so they can sell them on straight away for a big profit - they are taking advantage of genuine newbies who have not been lucky in a sale yet (like yourself? Not sure how your luck is...) and this is not good for the community and is surely part of what Bro was attempting to stop. You've only been here a couple of months and have over 200 posts so you know 50 was not a big ask, though starting a GB is kinda cheating :P
There were plenty of newbies during this period who appear genuinely interested rather than just joining to get to 50 and enter the sale and they are very welcome, just as you are. If you think we're trying to keep all the caps for longtime-member selves look in therapy for many posts congratulating those who won their first sale - it's just not true :)
Post by: thesiscamper on Fri, 13 November 2015, 17:34:13
I'm new here, but reading the thread I get the feeling that everyone really wants to keep some parts of geekhack (almost) exclusive. Spamming in a PSA thread about spamming pretty much says "we don't care about you noobies, get off my lawn!". Just my 2 cents, as someone who is a newcomer.
How about just a portion of the keys made to be sold to outsiders, like maybe 10 out of a hundred or something. "Get your scraps here kids!" Probably a bad idea, but the current one isn't really that great.
The thing with spam is if it's all in one thread spy (the list of recently posted in threads) still has room for lots of other threads that are not full of spam - there is often one thread here where spamming is being overlooked. Spamming this thread had the benefit that it kept it in spy so there was actually a chance of someone reading it but hidden down at the bottom of the forum few would otherwise!
In an ideal world everyone would play nice and we wouldn't need to filter who can enter a sale but we live in a world where some people buy caps just so they can sell them on straight away for a big profit - they are taking advantage of genuine newbies who have not been lucky in a sale yet (like yourself? Not sure how your luck is...) and this is not good for the community and is surely part of what Bro was attempting to stop. You've only been here a couple of months and have over 200 posts so you know 50 was not a big ask, though starting a GB is kinda cheating :P
There were plenty of newbies during this period who appear genuinely interested rather than just joining to get to 50 and enter the sale and they are very welcome, just as you are. If you think we're trying to keep all the caps for longtime-member selves look in therapy for many posts congratulating those who won their first sale - it's just not true :)
I'm not sure if I ever tried joining BroCaps' sale (I probably did at some point), I only remember joining adamski's T800 giveaway, and yes I did not get anything. I'm bad at draws and raffles, I just join Hot Keys' sales and War of Betrayal to keep disappointment to a minimum. :))
Post by: SamirD on Mon, 16 November 2015, 13:27:37
Sad state of the world isn't it? Which happiness lasts longer--plastic or friendship?What a crazy forum management issue.
Most forum software have a minimum word count that can be set for a post to even be submitted. I just set that high enough so that a real thought has to be written out for a post to even be submitted. Never really had an issue with the post count bloaters even when I did giveaways that were based on post count.
I think it more has to do with people not really caring about the community and just wanting the caps. It looks like their theory is to just spend a day on geekhack, build up enough posts, and only care about the bros. Some people it seems like have ended up staying because they enjoy it here so at least we got a few new members that will be staying. :thumb:
Is it the plastic, instead of the friendship? That sucks.
Post by: XMIT on Mon, 23 November 2015, 13:00:29
If I want custom key caps I'll make them myself. 8-)
Post by: Connly33 on Tue, 22 December 2015, 05:36:39
Post by: Blaise170 on Wed, 23 December 2015, 10:17:59
Post by: Bromono on Wed, 23 December 2015, 10:33:35
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
Post by: PunksDead on Wed, 23 December 2015, 10:34:58
does this count towards my post count?
RIP brotha
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 23 December 2015, 10:39:32
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 23 December 2015, 13:17:31
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
GH has a show thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39622.0).
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 23 December 2015, 13:20:02
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
GH has a show thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39622.0).
Yeah, but reddit gets stuff like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/dm2FOG1.jpg)
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 23 December 2015, 13:21:38
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
GH has a show thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39622.0).
Yeah, but reddit gets stuff like this:Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/dm2FOG1.jpg)
How can we even compete?
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 23 December 2015, 13:22:38
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
GH has a show thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39622.0).
Yeah, but reddit gets stuff like this:Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/dm2FOG1.jpg)
How can we even compete?
Your winning personality keeps me around. :thumb:
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 23 December 2015, 13:27:39
It only took life a week of quality posting for me several posts. Ripster is the reason I ever found this forum. :))
Which I feel like we should thank him
jokes aside...
He gives us great advertising and actually gives us some quality members.
People who get sick of his child like antics over at /mk and want to participate in more then just shoes and pokers usually come over here.
I came here from reddit for Bro sales, mostly. I like both forums though. There are some real good shoe pictures on reddit!
It's also interesting to see how much Clacks sell for, and Ripster posts up recently-closed eBay sales. I wish he would make an Excel sheet or something for it.
GH has a show thread (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39622.0).
Yeah, but reddit gets stuff like this:Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/dm2FOG1.jpg)
How can we even compete?
Better just shut things down, we can't...
Post by: pr0ximity on Wed, 23 December 2015, 18:13:58
Post by: romevi on Wed, 03 February 2016, 13:37:40
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 13:50:25
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Post by: Steezus on Wed, 03 February 2016, 13:54:02
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
There was a spam post by a new user before that, looks like the mods deleted it.
Post by: romevi on Wed, 03 February 2016, 13:56:08
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 14:00:07
Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Post by: crickclackman on Wed, 03 February 2016, 16:45:21
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Spam star?
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 03 February 2016, 16:47:50
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?
Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 16:51:36
Yes, that's the one. It was a dark, dark time.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Post by: romevi on Wed, 03 February 2016, 16:53:34
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 03 February 2016, 16:55:03
I bet you had a lot of people posting in Off Topic because that's the easiest section to post in, only to realize it didn't count. XDIs this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:00:49
It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.I bet you had a lot of people posting in Off Topic because that's the easiest section to post in, only to realize it didn't count. XDIs this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
Post by: FLFisherman on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:10:13
Well thank you for the history lesson! I shall go back to spamming other threads now.It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.I bet you had a lot of people posting in Off Topic because that's the easiest section to post in, only to realize it didn't count. XDIs this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:16:39
It got so bad that the mods disabled post counting on every subforum to eliminate the incentive to spam.Well thank you for the history lesson! I shall go back to spamming other threads now.It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.I bet you had a lot of people posting in Off Topic because that's the easiest section to post in, only to realize it didn't count. XDIs this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
Post by: Steezus on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:17:48
MoreWell thank you for the history lesson! I shall go back to spamming other threads now.It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.I bet you had a lot of people posting in Off Topic because that's the easiest section to post in, only to realize it didn't count. XDIs this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
It got so bad that the mods disabled post counting on every subforum to eliminate the incentive to spam.
Those were indeed some dark days.
Post by: xondat on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:20:54
It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.
This is what I sort of do - I go to unread topics, open in a new tab for everything I want to read, mark the rest as read then read/post. Feel like a **** now. :blank:
Post by: njbair on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:27:32
Nah, that's fine. It's when 50 people are doing it and all they're posting is like, "wow, cool" or "nice," that kind of thing.It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.
This is what I sort of do - I go to unread topics, open in a new tab for everything I want to read, mark the rest as read then read/post. Feel like a **** now. :blank:
Post by: trenzafeeds on Wed, 03 February 2016, 17:29:21
It was everywhere. Completely meaningless posts in every thread. There were times you could pull up Spy and watch a single user spam ten threads in a row.
This is what I sort of do - I go to unread topics, open in a new tab for everything I want to read, mark the rest as read then read/post. Feel like a **** now. :blank:
There's nothing wrong with posting a lot, just make your comments worth the time it takes for you to click post.
Post by: fanpeople on Thu, 04 February 2016, 00:44:52
Post by: livingspeedbump on Thu, 04 February 2016, 11:07:08
Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
A relephant?Didn't mean for that to sound like I was upset. But honestly when I saw that thread title pop up in unread I shuddered a bit. But it was just an annoying phase, thankfully.Is this PSA still relephant now that we may be getting that Spam star? :)) :))
Nice necro. Brought back some bad memories.
Ooh, sorry. Didn't know I'd rustle jimmies. I swear that it was not my intention. :-[
Also, it didn't give me the necro warning so I thought it was fair play (last post right before Xmas). :'(
Sorry, njbair. :(
Was this the phase where people had to have a minimum score count for sales?
Well, it's not irrelephant. :rolleyes:
And yeah, I'm thinking it was brought about because of the Monster Mash sale when newbies would come in and spam post just to get that count up. Half of them were entertaining, but the other half did get pretty annoying--really fast.
It was funny for about 5 mins. But when you could check 10 pages you'd been following and not see any name you recognized, or any actual new content, it got real old real fast.
But if a spam star happens Im going TP this shizzz.
Post by: VivaGardner on Wed, 13 July 2016, 15:29:04
Post by: joey on Wed, 13 July 2016, 15:31:07
Can someone up-ban me or mute me from Bro Caps board? I would like to post some pictures of my Bro Cap and not really sure why I was banned. It's been a long time since I've posted, so if I did something wrong please let me know and hopefully time served is good?The threads there are currently locked for everyone.
Post by: romevi on Wed, 13 July 2016, 15:31:24
Can someone up-ban me or mute me from Bro Caps board? I would like to post some pictures of my Bro Cap and not really sure why I was banned. It's been a long time since I've posted, so if I did something wrong please let me know and hopefully time served is good?
Which thread?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 13 July 2016, 15:37:20
Post by: kingpilcrow on Wed, 13 July 2016, 15:41:09
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 July 2016, 10:11:13
Can someone up-ban me or mute me from Bro Caps board? I would like to post some pictures of my Bro Cap and not really sure why I was banned. It's been a long time since I've posted, so if I did something wrong please let me know and hopefully time served is good?
You're not banned; bro locked the threads.
Post by: YoshiCaps on Sat, 22 October 2016, 21:42:48
Post by: fanpeople on Sat, 12 November 2016, 15:33:41
Mr matrianman