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Subject: "Flush" option?

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

I think this would be a great idea, although people will probably find a way to misuse it. It would be this- there would be an icon at the top of a thread (it would only be there for the person who started the thread) and it would say "Flush Thread". Basically, all it would do is clear all of the replies from the topic. That way, if you start a new topic and it gets spammed or goes off-topic, you can just flush it and start over.

  • 05.01.2005 12:29 PM PDT
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That actually sounds pretty good to me. It sounds better than just deleting every single post in it.

  • 05.01.2005 12:48 PM PDT
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I think they already have that.. No wait, that's the toilet.

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People would definitely abuse that.

  • 05.01.2005 1:47 PM PDT
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Maybe Bungie.net can have that option for a moderator.

[Edited on 5/1/2005]

  • 05.01.2005 1:56 PM PDT
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It sounds alright to me but no one cares what i think...

  • 05.01.2005 2:33 PM PDT

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Well once the ninja unleash option is clicked under the avatar all posts from that guy is cencored. So Ninjas hunt down every single post a spammer makes and cuts it up.

  • 05.02.2005 12:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Soldier Gryphon
Maybe Bungie.net can have that option for a moderator.


It is pretty damn interesting...

  • 05.02.2005 12:08 AM PDT

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Yep. Well, good idea in theory, but the realistic factor of abusers would certainly come into play.

  • 05.02.2005 2:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: MakaVeli4LIfe1
It is pretty damn interesting...


Your mom is interesting, lol.

Actually I like that idea, but it should only be limited to the Moderators of the main forums.

  • 05.02.2005 4:30 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

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Posted by: Soldier Gryphon
Maybe Bungie.net can have that option for a moderator.


It is pretty damn interesting...


Pink's idea pwns all!!!!!!11!

Mabye Bungie could give it to the Mods at the next update?

  • 05.02.2005 4:33 AM PDT
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I'm not really sure what I was expecting to see under the title, "Flush oprion?" but it sounds good.

Best given only to moderators though :-)

  • 05.02.2005 5:53 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Yes. I can see it now- spammers making threads and flushing it everytime someone flames them. But, used in the right hands, the "Flush" option would be a force to be reckoned with.

Would members be able to PM mods and asked for their topics to be flushed? I like this idea :)
I have to be honest though, I stole it from another forums. However, said forum was by far the worst forum I have ever posted in. Only one of the 12 or so forums was even moderated!

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  • 05.02.2005 11:44 AM PDT
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Well, if what i think your saying is correct, a mod would be able to delete all posts in a thread while leaving the thread still in place?

Yes...so, let me think up an example...ah yes.
You begin a thread. It turns out to be a good one and has a decent post rate, but about half or more of the posts are spams, flames, ect. A mod would come in, see that a flame war is about to begin or has already started, or a ton of spam is about to come or already has, and he can choose to "flush" the thread of it all.
Now that is something I commend Pink Menace for bringing up.
I vote that the mods should have this power.

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One thing you have to consider though is the packaged features of the current ban. When we ban a spammer who made a thread, the text that you all recognize by now will be shown. But if we ban a spammer, flamer, whoever, within a thread, all of the posts that that user made vanish. So the flush option would become just an expanded version of what already happens, in some ways. I can imagine the flush thing to be for cleaning out a thread, but doing so without banning anyone. All things considered, it's a good idea, but an idea that might be pointless to code - if needed - because of the infrequency of its use

Still a topic that could be discussed more though. Work out some loose ends and then maybe you're on to something

  • 05.02.2005 1:17 PM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

I think that if a thread was flushed, the forum members should know. Mabye a tag, like the Golden Septagon or something? A toilet?

  • 05.02.2005 1:17 PM PDT