- DarkHalo003
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Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: Great_Pretender
The community can effectively "lock" a topic by simply not replying to it. It floats away like it was never even there.That's great advice, but has never been heeded by the general populous. Ever. No matter how many times we say it, we are still shouting into the wind. It is long past time to either begin enforcing this notion or to drop it and stop saying it.
I think that this method of bad thread control could indeed become a formidable one, but it would require diligence from the mods in banning people who reply to spam -- even with supposedly "helpful" replies like "please do not respond to this thread and it will eventually go away" or "please refrain from posting spam." If there is no punishment, then the incentive to respond to bad threads -- ESPECIALLY troll threads but spam threads as well -- will, for a large portion of the BNet population, overcome any desire to see the thread pushed off the front page.
Without enforcement, trolls and spammers will continue to revel in the outraged and annoyed replies that they receive when posting bad threads. Until there is enforcement for this notion, then alternative methods of bad thread control need to continue to be evaluated. And, with all due respect TGP, until then, just saying "don't respond and it will go away" is not a valid response to complaints about bad threads.
Yes, that is sort of the reason why i brought this up, but note ntirely. I get so annoyed when i see people replying to trolls and spam. People never listen to what you have to say about not replying and it is extremely annoying when the thread goes to its 164th reply.