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Posted by: Recon Number 54
And sadly, with Bungie recognizing more and more fan created content in the Updates, some members are so frantic to get noticed that they are ignoring, disregarding or deliberately breaking some important forum rules.
Fortunately for us, unfortunately for them, the "report as spam" feature is keeping we ninja well informed when this occurs.
Most of you know and follow these common sense guidelines, but if you are uncertain, if you have friends who are "flirting with disaster" or even if you are considering it yourself, please be aware of the following points.
* Most Bungie.Net forums are for discussion. To talk and exchange views on various topics. Nearly every forum has a dedicated subject type and threads created there should comply to that subject matter.
* A thread about your member-created content is NOT a discussion about the game. It is an advertisement, it is self-promotion. It does not belong (for example) in Halo 3, The Underground, the Community Forum, Optimatch, The Flood, Halo PC, Halo CE or the Halo 2 forum.
* There is one, just ONE exception. In the Halo 3 forum, Luke has created a sticky for members to post (once) and share a link to their gametype or map. Making a reply to that thread and linking to your shared content is allowed and recommended.
* The community file forums are where we ALL can place our content. Put it there, and let it ride.
* Bumping in any forum is bad, bumping in the file forums shows why it is bad. It is selfish. Don't do it.
* Quid pro quo replies are also easy to spot. Posting a "hey I like, check out my file at ______" is not a valid reply, it is an ad. It has bad consequences.
* The file forums are not chat rooms. Getting your buddies to go back and forth with "hey great" and "thanks for the comments" only lasts for so long.
There are two important points to note out of all of this.
First: Anyone who is considering or is engaged in attempts to "increase the odds" of getting noticed by Bungie are actually harming their chances. Getting banned means that you can't share your content, your threads are hidden and your content isn't visible to the public. Worst of all, if Bungie sees it, you've probably made their "naughty" list. Just like Santa, I would imagine that they keep one. And getting off of that list is much harder than getting onto it.
Secondly: For the majority of members who don't engage in those practices, you do however see them. You now have the ability to report them and help to reduce the clutter, noise and abuse of our rules. But be aware, with these new tools come new responsibilities. Now that we are able zero in on problem threads, the one thing that we are seeing more and more of is the equally disruptive and far less helpful, "in before the lock", "you are so banned" and "reported as spam" replies.
Trust me on this. Posts like that are NOT helping. They are bumping and they are spam themselves. I go to a thread because of problem reports and in some cases I am blacklisting people who I know actually reported the thread. Why? Because they don't understand what they are supposed to do with the new tool.
If you see a bad post. Just click on "report". Don't respond to it. If the thread is bad, it doesn't deserve the bump, if the post is bad, it doesn't deserve the recognition. Report it and move along. Let us take care of it. And we will.
Thanks for reading.
Wow sometimes it seems like recon and foman are the same guy. They both have extremely long good informative posts.