Pointless posting

[Phil]

Ah, so... @FlyingJesus; got warned because he was the first person to realise it and didn't say anything on topic... But if he was the second person to realise, and he replied to the first person - whilst still not saying anything on topic, he would have been fine.

Seems entirely logical.

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Well Hayden had already contributed to the thread and would be a bit idiotic to edit his post and send him a PM for pointless posting when he was answering someone's question and being helpful?

[Yawn]

this thread is giving me a headache just change the rules

[Kardan]

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Well Hayden had already contributed to the thread and would be a bit idiotic to edit his post and send him a PM for pointless posting when he was answering someone's question and being helpful?

So we can post off topic if we've already answered the thread question? I would argue that FlyingJesus was being helpful by notifying Skandair that his choice of words was incorrect.

[Phil]

So we can post off topic if we've already answered the thread question? I would argue that FlyingJesus was being helpful by notifying Skandair that his choice of words was incorrect.

That's one of the points of this thread. Everyone has a different perception of what is a pointless/off-topic post so it is being suggested that the rule needs changing. What you consider to be pointless may be different to what I or another user sees as pointless

[xxMATTGxx]

Looked at other fansites to see what sort of rules they have in place for pointless posting/off-topic. It seems the other two big fansites keep it fairly simple in terms of what they say in the rules compared to Habbox.

ThisHabbo:

8. Pointless Posting:
Pointless posting regards any post that does not contribute to the topic of the thread and was simply posted with aims of gaining post count. Any user found pointless posting will be warned/infracted accordingly.


HFFM:

8) Pointless/Off-topic Posting
Pointless and off-topic posting is regarded as posts that do not contribute to the thread topic or the creators intentions.

Habbox:

A7. Do not post pointlessly ~ ~ Do not post off-topic ~ An off-topic post has no relevance to the topic or any previous post that is relevant, or does little to positively contribute to the discussion.
~ Do not spam/make pointless posts. It is not allowed to post random, meaningless, posts or threads on the forum. Examples of this are (ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!); (BYRDSB +HKK; ) (I am a plane)
~ Do not posts threads which only allow for short, one or two word answers and do not promote active discussion. Repeatably posting short replies such as "Yes" or "Nope" is also forbidden. What is classed as pointless or abuse is entirely down to the discretion of the Forum Department.

[Kardan]

ThisHabbo is good as it contains 'and', but HFFM's is pretty bad because of the word 'or' - I'm sure you'd get people reporting posts saying crap like "This post does not meet my intentions of this thread".

[Chris]

I liked the ThisHabbo one the best too. I'm thinking if we change it to match their rule then it's something we can always tweak if we find that it doesn't work out as well as we hoped.

[e5]

ThisHabbo is good as it contains 'and', but HFFM's is pretty bad because of the word 'or' - I'm sure you'd get people reporting posts saying crap like "This post does not meet my intentions of this thread".

Yeah we have members that like to pick flaws in rules

In my opinion though, users may from that rule post 1 word replies but a lot of it will just be to increase post count so again it's still down to moderator discretion as to whether they are doing that or not. I know we could make it work but just one of those things. I'm happy to let 1 word replies go aslong as it's on topic to the threads question. I just think stupid 1 word replied to a thread like 'yes' or 'no' are always going to be pointless though even in a thread that asks like 'do you like cheese' or whatever, which technically only requires a 1 word reply but offers no discussion to the thread at all.

[Daltron]

Can we just move on from this, there won't be a marvellous perfect answer waiting at the end of a 100 page debate.

At the end of the day the pointless posting rule should only be used to warn or "REMIND -.-" members if it is indeed off topic, but if a post is one word or a little sarcastic but still relevant than it should be left alone.

I can almost guarantee a new rule that limits what people can post will make forum activity go down as Calum and the other mods are moving everything into spam and warning every second member, and in 6 months time you will all look around and make a new thread asking why there is no activity.

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah good plan let's just give up because we got to a certain post count in the thread

As for forum activity, how many times does it need to be explained that "yeah i lik it" x30 is not active discussion? Less crap threads doesn't mean the forum is doing worse