At 8/28/06 01:10 AM, Washu-Chan wrote:
At 8/28/06 12:40 AM, Hemlok wrote:
At 8/27/06 11:16 PM, damnnyo wrote:
oh boy INTERNET STATS!
Shut up.
Hemlok we don't respond to spammers in the EGB. When you do that you only give the spammers what they want attention. once you give them attention they may come back and spam us some more and the last thing we need is potential spam that could be prevented if you didn't respond.
I've tried to get this point across countless times, but noone listens to me, either. It's really annoying. Simple concept: DO NOT RESPOND. If someone MUST respond, it will be by either a Barracks Officer, or more likely, a moderator, ok? I've gotten chastized many times by moderators by this, as well as other officers like Ghost_Phantom. Why make it harder for us? Several mods don't like us already, so why fuel the fire?
I was playing with the idea of a demerit system a while back (like 300 pages ago, lol), but never thought I'd need it. Lets hope I don't need it in the future. I expect Barracks members to give respect to each other, to NG, and to the thread. Responding to spammers is just one way to not respond. For instance, the person that tried to join using Mad-Cow's stats should have only been responded to by officers, and then only by one person, the Recruitment Officer (who basically said "nice try"). What more do we need? One-liner annoyance posts do not deserve anything, as it accomplishes nothing. All it does is say to them, "hey, I can get a rise out of these Barracks guys...I'm gonna do it more!" So they do. Not responding makes them go away. If they are spamming up the forum, an Officer will contact a moderator for help. Simple as that. Please refrain from responding to spammers, as it does nothing but cause harm.
Sorry to be terse with my statements, but this has been an issue I have mentioned countless times, and it seems I have to do so regularly, as well as my fellow Officers.
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One more note, while I'm on Barracks business: end-of-day stats. I know many of you are pissed off that moderators are banning us for doing it, but what are we going to do? If the mods don't want us posting it here, fair enough. There are the Barracks Forums (see my sig link) which I made for things like this that NG wishes to keep off the C&C thread. Generally I noticed people post stats around 10PM-12AM (EST), so hang out on the forums around that time. Otherwise, refrain from the posts. I do believe it's okay by JoS if you include a one-liner note in an otherwise normal post (like SlashFirestorm does), so if you want to say how many points you received, go ahead. Keep details to the Barracks Forums. I'm sorry that it annoys some of you, but I'd rather have an unlocked thread than a locked one. :-)