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Subject: What would the forums be like if spam didn't exist?
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-if pointless, useless polls with answers that do not benefit anyone weren't made
-if internet meme-related topics weren't created
-if people who have forgotten to use a search engine for answers didn't create a topic and used one
-if the pony-loving users didn't create topics on their newly-acquired fetish for colourful, emotion-abundant, neighing animal cartoons
-if the trolls didn't waste a forum slot to prove a point

If forums had legitimate discussion topics.

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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

I mean... didn't you just answer your own question?

  • 10.02.2011 3:54 PM PDT
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I might know the answer to my question, but others should think about the answer too.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
I mean... didn't you just answer your own question?

  • 10.02.2011 3:55 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

It would get boring.

  • 10.02.2011 3:55 PM PDT

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Furry Forever óÓÒò

Supreme mastery therefore, is not to be victorious in all your battles; supreme excellence is to be victorious without fighting.

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "

Then I think we might, maybe, have some legitimate discussions.

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Talk to the Soul | ~B.B. | Know Your Duardo |  | Hero | ISFJ | 77135 | 94371

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

Boring, to be completely honest.

  • 10.02.2011 3:56 PM PDT
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I'm enjoying the sarcasm. Please continue.
Posted by: The Wo1f
Then I think we might, maybe, have some legitimate discussions.

  • 10.02.2011 3:56 PM PDT

NO GROUP INVITES

Jesus took 3 days to respawn, talk about lag.

7 BILLION BY 7

He missed the fact that people will always be idiots and that infections like spam will always plague a forum.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
I mean... didn't you just answer your own question?


And it would be a boring and dry conversation, without any fun :)

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I agree. We would discuss topics and move onto the next one.
These forums are a source of intellectual stimuli.
Posted by: Duardo
Boring, to be completely honest.

  • 10.02.2011 3:57 PM PDT

What a hipster.

Image in head: Forums ninjas having a tea party, in a flowery meadow, with a rainbow shimmering just off in the distance.

But the truth is probably just a slow forum with a bored moderator team. Go figure huhh.

Edit: ^ Duardo beat me to it.

[Edited on 10.02.2011 3:58 PM PDT]

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I didn't miss that fact. The idea of perfect forums is worth imagining.
Posted by: Sir Killalot33
He missed the fact that people will always be idiots and that infections like spam will always plague a forum.

Posted by: x Foman123 x
I mean... didn't you just answer your own question?


And it would be a boring and dry conversation, without any fun :)

  • 10.02.2011 3:58 PM PDT

We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.


Posted by: x Foman123 x
I mean... didn't you just answer your own question?

  • 10.02.2011 4:00 PM PDT
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Peace. A day of peace on the forums is worth it.
Posted by: Commander GX
Image in head: Forums ninjas having a tea party, in a flowery meadow, with a rainbow shimmering just off in the distance.

But the truth is probably just a slow forum with a bored moderator team. Go figure huhh.

Edit: ^ Duardo beat me to it.


[Edited on 10.02.2011 4:01 PM PDT]

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Talk to the Soul | ~B.B. | Know Your Duardo |  | Hero | ISFJ | 77135 | 94371

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

What exactly is a "perfect forum" anyways? Would every topic be something completely new and original to discuss, and once that discussion has ended no one replies anymore, and no one ever posts that topic again? Would there be no spelling mistakes? Would there be no trolls or spammers?

Maybe the "perfect forum" already exists with what we have now, but we are just looking at it in a negative light.

  • 10.02.2011 4:05 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
What exactly is a "perfect forum" anyways? Would every topic be something completely new and original to discuss, and once that discussion has ended no one replies anymore, and no one ever posts that topic again? Would there be no spelling mistakes? Would there be no trolls or spammers?
All of that... but better.

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Posted by: Duardo
What exactly is a "perfect forum" anyways? Would every topic be something completely new and original to discuss, and once that discussion has ended no one replies anymore, and no one ever posts that topic again? Would there be no spelling mistakes? Would there be no trolls or spammers?
All of that... but better.

  • 10.02.2011 4:08 PM PDT
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Ad Astra Per Aspera

Experienced In Life's Little Drama

A "perfect forum" would mean women would give me sexy time every time I make a post.

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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. " ~Gil Stern

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." ~Albert Einstein

"What did I just drink?"~Socrates

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Posted by: Ada Astra
A "perfect forum" would mean women would give me sexy time every time I make a post.


Sounds good to me.

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'Perfect' in the true definition of a forum.
"A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged."
Posted by: Ada Astra
A "perfect forum" would mean women would give me sexy time every time I make a post.

  • 10.02.2011 4:10 PM PDT
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You think it got what it takes to be..?.


God forbid you send me one of those I was checking for cool gamers and saw you messages too, I will scream to the top of my lungs and smash this damn screen/BlackBerry to pieces! You've been warned -_-

Forum Ninjas would be out of a job.

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Think of a place, far far away, a place that nobody could imagine. The trees and the flowers blooming like it is the beginning of the Spring. And then,...BAM! Justin Bieber, a GOOD singer.

*gasps*

  • 10.02.2011 5:57 PM PDT

Hello, I'm Mr AwesomePizza. I like pizza and I'm a man. Reasoning for the name. I like to listen to the classics of music, write poetry, play video games, and much much more. I'm always down for a nice chat, so please hit me up for some conversation.

The forums wouldn't have Spam.

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Yonder the darkest bridge,
a misty light appears
as an amber gleam glistens post storm,
the methane shine shifts the emotional decor

A peaceful garden of daisies would bloom out of the inherent tranquility.

  • 10.02.2011 6:03 PM PDT

"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.

I was a finalist :P

There'd be like...only 5 threads created per day.

  • 10.02.2011 6:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Much like the inbox of my first email account. Empty.

But spam has a purpose; a beautiful purpose. Spam has helped me learn to create alt email accounts to sign up for websites I know will abuse the information I give them. Spam has given me a reason to always make sure to read the boxes I check (and realize that I should uncheck most of them) when registering for websites.

However, the most important thing spam has taught me is how to filter irrelevant information. Despite there always being room for error since I'm using preconceived notions, spam has allowed me to see, just by the titles of things, whether or not they are worth perusing. In this forum, for example, if a member hasn't clearly established the point of his post within the first couple of sentences, it isn't worth reading; references to ran,k or k/d, or any sentence with the word "unfair" in it can be ignored; etc.

Spam has done all of these wonderful things; has transformed me from the naive child of the internet to the internet veteran you see before you (Thanks Spam!), and you want to get rid of it? For shame.

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