We're not asking for more than this: help in retaining the atmosphere of The Maw. It used to be such a nice little place, no flames, not a whole lot of threads, peaceful. Now there's tension, repetitive threads [lots of them, too], many threads dealing with illegal activities - it's not the same, it's slowly transforming into the Halo 2 forums.
Here's news for you - NONE of the forum is the same anymore. Even The Septagon, once a lame, post-a-day board has been invaded. It's just a sign of the times.
I'd almost say that you have to allow a few off-topics in The Maw, and most have at least a semblance of relevance. We're a pretty close group of members, we all know each other, and there's not a lot of us. Many of us don't venture out simply because Halo 2's forums are way too chaotic and the others don't appeal to our interests. We like to talk with our small group, and we can't just talk about HaloPC all the time.
Same with here. But we wouldn't allow off-topic posts.
Ok, maybe it was posted in the wrong place even though I was talking about The Maw, but that still doesn't explain why things like THIS go unchallenged...
Thank you for reporting them. See what happens when you actually tell us that these threads exist? I can tell you that, in my experience, reports from The Maw are VERY rare.
Incorrect moderating. I have seen a number of posts recently that were just spam, and althought the guy was blacklisted, the 4 threads he created were still there, and unlocked.
What should of happened, is they be locked or deleted as there was no useful content in them at all.
What happened instead, you get teh inevitable people posting in them saying 'Haha, banned!' etc. Thus keeping them alive and on the first page.
When we see them then they are locked or deleted. However, the user may have been banned for another reason, and therefore said user's other threads may go unnoticed.
We posted the orginal thread about this, asking for help or some guidence on the issue. Not one mod responded. Im pretty certain a mod must have looked at it, because threads just before and after it had been got at by a mod.
The only guaranteed way to get us to notice something is either to PM us or e-mail us.