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Subject: "Posting" in The News Forum
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Query: Why do some of our fellow B.net members spam the News Forum so much? And, perhaps a better question, why do they not get banned for doing so? Don't know what I'm talking about? Let me explain: This seems to be the typical response to a news thread posted by Frankie or Luke...

NICE!!

W0ot 3rd post!!!1

[Edited two seconds after the initial post!!]


...But don't let this dramatic reinactment sway you. Go ahead and check out the forum yourself if you doubt me. I'll Wait... Back yet? I know isn't it terrible?

The first page of any given News Thread is just sooo cluttered with spam such as this that it makes it virtually unreadable. Yes, that's right. I actually click the Discuss this story link with the hope that I will actually be able to Discuss that story! I know, it's a novel concept that I've come up with.

So, if at all possible, could the B.net Moderators clean up the news forum a little?

  • 08.13.2007 1:09 PM PDT
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Dude chill. It's been like that for years. It is a place to have a little more fun. Why restrict it? If you are having problems "Discussing the story" make a post about it in another topic. And we do discuss. We are right now. It is just a fan thing to go "second post". Just for bragging rights...sorta.

  • 08.13.2007 1:15 PM PDT
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There was, at one time (and hopefully still), a rule that said if your post in the news forum is something like "first post" you would be banned. I hope they still follow that rule.

  • 08.13.2007 1:26 PM PDT

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Its because no one actually reads the News Forum.

w00t..... fourth post!!!!!!

  • 08.13.2007 2:04 PM PDT

There's a news forum?

IGN had the flamethrower story friday night. Which begs the question Mr. Bungie, why would IGN publish news faster than the very company that's making Halo 3?

  • 08.13.2007 2:16 PM PDT

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  • 08.13.2007 2:27 PM PDT

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  • 08.13.2007 2:35 PM PDT

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So, if at all possible, could the B.net Moderators clean up the news forum a little?

Hey, I completely agree. If there's going to be Bungie.net COC, I think everyone should be subjected to it. Nothing excludes the News forum.

Maybe mods themselves are too scared to venture in there...

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  • 08.13.2007 2:41 PM PDT

because if seeing is believing,
then believe that we have lost our eyes

Well this guys views it as an art form.

  • 08.13.2007 3:38 PM PDT

Pointless posting/spam has always and will always be a part of the forums, you just have to try and deal with it. When you see something like that just PM a mod and let them deal with it.

  • 08.13.2007 10:59 PM PDT
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I agree, it's annoying. If I had my way, anyone who posted anything remotely similar to "first!" would be blacklisted for a week.

  • 08.13.2007 11:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
Good to see at least somebody takes this place seriously

I am sincerely disappointed in everyone except JIMH. JIMH, have a gold star.


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Can you blame them? I mean posting first or close to it gives you a much greater chance at His baldness looking down at your post and smiling. I mean, I have only been first to post in a news thread once my entire time here, but being that close to the Frank made my hands tingle for like a week. It is like being in the first row of a Beatles concert. Only it is freaking Frankie up there! If I should be so lucky! I mean we are talking about a guy who has the glorious honor of being Bungie's errand boy. If posting first in one of his threads isn't the most amazing thing in the world, I don't know what is.

  • 08.14.2007 12:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: odmichael
Dude chill. It's been like that for years. It is a place to have a little more fun. Why restrict it? If you are having problems "Discussing the story" make a post about it in another topic. And we do discuss. We are right now. It is just a fan thing to go "second post". Just for bragging rights...sorta.


I think I know why people do it; I assume they think that if they post on the first page, even if such a post is completely irrelevant to the conversation, then either Frankie or Luke will respond to it, validating themselves somehow. However, spam is spam, no matter what context it is in. Which brings me to my next point... Why should we except spam simply because it has always been apart of a given forum? The problem isn't so bad yet, as to forgo a reasonable solution.

  • 08.14.2007 7:32 AM PDT
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Why should we except spam simply because it has always been apart of a given forum? The problem isn't so bad yet, as to forgo a reasonable solution.
First page! w00t!!!

Like you say, the problem isn't that bad. Should "first post"-type posts be merely accepted because they are "tradition"? No, obviously not -- past rules by the moderators have made that clear, and spam is almost always more annoying than it is funny.

But merely blasting "first post"ers won't solve the problem.

There are still two issues that prevent the problem from being solved just by banning "first post"-type posts. First is the fact that there are a LOT of people who would continue to post "first post" even if you banned the six or seven people who did it last week because they simply don't know about the rule. Second is the problem that even if blacklistings had some kind of deterrent effect -- hell even if there was an automatic message under the "Click here for full story" link that said "'First post'-type posts will be grounds for blacklisting" -- you would still have a ton of people wanting to be the first to respond. So instead, they would respond with something like "hi" and then go back and read the article and edit in a response within a minute or two. Or else they would read through the article as quickly as humanly possible, pick something inane out and post that instead.

Either way, you're not going to find any intelligent discussion on the first one or two pages of the news article. People are simply not going to read carefully through the article and make intelligent posts just because of the threat of blacklisting. Instead, you should do what you already seem to do -- read the article and then respond. By the time you respond, the spammers have moved back to the Halo 3 Forum and the Flood, and the people who actually want to discuss the story are still around. You can usually find much better discussion on pages 3 and on in a news article, so why not just pay attention to those pages?

I disagree with people who say that it is allowable because it is "tradition," and I agree with you that spamming is unacceptable even in a news post. But I do not see how this is an urgent problem.

  • 08.14.2007 9:44 AM PDT

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We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

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... Which begs the question Mr. Bungie....

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  • 08.14.2007 10:01 AM PDT

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Maybe because no one really cares? Not a whole lot of discussion goes on there. It's more a forum to say "That was a cool news story." I never go there looking for intelligent posts. >_>

Wait a second.. *looks around*

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[Edited on 08.14.2007 10:10 AM PDT]

  • 08.14.2007 10:09 AM PDT