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No use cryin' over Spillt Milk
Posted by: ash55
Posted by: mediocresniper
Then again, I would also like to say that this shouldn't be a bannable offense. According to the rules, spam will get a thread locked but shouldn't get someone blacklisted unless it's excessive.
But, the mods know best.
Well I usually ban people on sight for intentionally bumping and spamming by replying with this sort of crap. It ruins other people's enjoyment of the forums because their threads are being sunk by it. I believe it should be a blacklistable offence because it's one of the more serious and poignant (at least to me) problems with the current state of the forums.
I don't believe people need to be explicitly warned about it either. If they have even half a brain, they would realise its impact on the forum index (and impact on other peoples valid discussion threads).
If I make a thread, I don't want to compete with spam threads for attention. When you think about how the forums work, bumping spam is just as detrimental as posting a new spam thread. If people get off on ruining the forums, in order to amuse themselves in this way, I really don't see a reason to vary the punishment between starting a spam thread and contributing to one.
That's all well and good, but isn't it technically impossible for bumping a thread to sink it? It does, by definition, keep it at the top of the forum.