At times I have difficulty understanding folks just 500 miles from here, so yeah. Hell, a couple hundred miles from here. And we supposedly have tons of stuff in common!

Anyway, I see what you're saying overall. We just choose to approach the matter in a different way. If your results make you happy and my results make me happy...

Well said,it's about time someone else stood up in this place to the abusers of posts and threads.
Report that!

Yes, I remember. Thank you!
(I just didn't want to post usernames in a 'controversial' thread, like, "hey jerks, here are more good people you can attack".)

Don't worry.

Egh...this forum's quickly turning into a shell.
So now not only do we have a downvote war, but a spam-deletion war as well? And now somebody's created what's basically a forced sticky to combat it?
It's not even so much that as the fact that this whole issue seems to be bringing out the worst in people, some of whom I've even usually respected.
Edit: Wait, Crew, didn't you make a thread similar to this one not too long ago? I could swear this whole thing seems very familiar...

Fables, if you're reading this, are you SURE you don't want to go into accounting instead? It's not too late.

It's not a forced sticky. It will wither and die if left alone and I won't so much as lift a finger to stop that. It only becomes a forced sticky IF people choose to continue deleting it. Once they realize that their abuse of spam reporting achieves exactly the opposite of that whey intended, hopefully they will stop and then there will be no need for protection measures.

I love you both.

There is no war. Alaric made like a dozen threads that said nothing but "soon", and they got deleted as spam. Then he started making threads about how his "soon" threads got deleted, that also got deleted as spam. The last one wasn't, since Alaric outright threatened to spam the forum into oblivion if it is. Yes- he basically blackmailed the forum into letting him spam, or he'll spam even more. That's it. There is no war, just a self-important jerk who wants to run things here from his jerk-muted echo-chamber.

Spot on, if this were any other forum he would've been banned already.

Here I sit, alone at my 'puter,

Always hearting JerkMuter™,

It's a script, for us all to use,

Against the jerks, who like to abuse.

sigh, why are you trolling?

verb
verb: champion 1.support the cause of; defend. Sorry if that is high-and-mighty for you there that I defend the right of free speech. I do the same for other things as well.

I asked you why you bothered, not taht you couldn't, so i'm not trodding on your "free speech". And again, Champion means to defend.

I find it sad taht you have nothing better to do than to pick fights when I politely asked you not to. But continue, if you feel you must. The problem on the forums these days aren't just the trolls, it's also the older users acting like spoiled children and feeling they know best as to what should and shouldn't go on in the forums.

And how dare you tell me not to threaten YOUR patience with MY attitude. Who the hell do you think you are? really?

He isn't. Leave him alone.

TinyE did NOT say those words at all. I was being VERY hyperbolic.
he lashed out at me and tore me down and you say for ME to leave HIM alone? I was nothing but polite to him in my response and he tears into me and I"M at fault. I'm sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you tear into someone, expect some sort of reaction. sorry.

I will surprise you, miss "free speech"- "trolling" is not the same as "having an opinion that you do not agree with".

Yes, and to consider oneself a "defender of free speech" because you are trying to defend a spammer on an internet forum is ridiculous. I am not a "Champion of the Amazonian Rainforest" because I don't like it being cut down and say so online. Get of you high horse and maybe you will regain a certain sense of proportion.

I am not "picking a fight". I am simply stating my opinion on the very subject you talk about in the OP. You ask people not to mark posts as spam and give the example of Alaric's threads. I explain why I think his threads deserved to be deleted as spam, and how what he is doing is wrong. I have no idea why you decided to go after me, which leads me to

I think I am a person who does not like people giving him attitude without reason, and therefore tell you so. You decided to pick a fight with me for reasons that escape me entirely, unless it's simply the fact that I said something you did not like. You brand me a troll and call me out for daring to post ON TOPIC in your thread.

He has endured a lot more crap and abuse in this forum than you have so when you start telling him to stop being so pissy about this whole mess than you're damn right he is going to lash out. Breja used to be the most diplomatic person in here and all he got for it was shit shit and more shit. He spam reports and eliminates these fuckers because this all that works and that is all they deserve, so like I said, leave him alone.

Spend four years turning the other cheek only to get shit on and we'll see how much you hate that spam button.

He can spam report anything he likes because he has earned it after being totally ignored and fucked over by the people that run this place.