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I've started to look around, and a few members are beginning to turn into spam. The rule does state that "If you know its bad, dont do it". Spam is so obviously bad.

People seem to "disregard" it and make posts that are absolutely bull anyway.

The moderators are clueless on what to delete because I have such low rules here. I accually thought that the RPG was a fun way of playing, getting items etc. People seem to think that they want to get the best items so they HAVE to post as fast as possible. If you're ONLY here to get great big items with the RPG, I honestly dont want you here.

I'm now asking the moderators to delete all post for now on that are extremely off topic unless its in the Patch 1.10 forum. I mean, we got a forum which we encourage spam. But some people seem compelled to continue.

Heres the future of the forums: If moderators still see spam on a regular basis, I will ask them to add 1+ warn level every time. When it hits 5, you get your minerals reset. Its not the case right now, but if it keeps up, I may do that and some new rules.

I really wanted to make a ruleless forum. You guys abuse, then we turn into just like everyone else.

It's the inevitable problem of any forum with lots of members. The RPG only seems to encourage it. I say we should increase the character limit to something like 30 so people will have to construe a decent post instead of posting any crap just for minerals.

Sorry. I know I am to blame as much as anybody... I don't often think about what I'm posting, I just kinda do...

What do you mean by "Character limit?"

He means the limit on the number of letters needed for each post. I think that it wouldn't make a difference, since people will spam regardless of the character limit.

Perhaps something even more drastic, like hitting warn 7 would reset your whole RPG account, and maybe warn 10 would ban you from the RPG. that way, people would think twice before spamming.

He means that part of the reply function that won't let you reply if you have less than 15 characters. It gives you an error message that says it needs to be longer. Moose thinks it should be a higher min.

Edit: dangit spaceboy you beat me to the punch...

Losing all your minerals in punishment enough. That way people know that theres nothing to gain from doing so.

Well sorry if I kinda got this Rpg thing obsessed. Just that you know, I just want to beat someone like Shadow Paladin or Yoshi.

Actually I did kinda take this like a game, because I wanted to take an advantage over the system. I'll try to stay focused next time.

Out of the people I had in mind which this post wasn't for, you'll be happy that you weren't one of them. I saw no problems in your posts.


EDIT -- I'm sorry guys. I've been under a lot of stress lately and everything from school. If I didn't have vacation in 2 days, I'd be taking a week off trying to finish assignments (which are already done)

I've been rather moody about school, parents and whatnot. Had a few troubles with a girl I liked at school. If I crack, I'll be sure not to come back here and take it out on you guys.

The Spamming thing is still an issue, I'm just apologizing for being so harsh.

I understand what you're feeling Yoshi. I think that tends to happen a lot during finals time (the end of semester). I have a lot of junk that I have to get done too... But sorry about the spam. I know a lot of that was me...

Well thanks for finally bringing the problem up, I have started visiting less, because everytime I have come, there seems to be more and more spam, and I believe part of it is the SC RPG, because poeple will post a lot more because they really wanna buy that Psi Blade and Uber potion. I think there should be some other way to obtain minerals.

EDIT: But the spamming isn't at a major point right now, its just a few key members, and I hope they will stop.

Yeah, when I heard posts = minerals the first thing that rang through my mind was "spam = posts therefore spam = minerals and when you want minerals you spam".

If I were making this it would be something like...

Minerals from a harvesting function. You start off with one peon harvesting 8 every hour and you could purchase more peons for 100 ore each, or spend the cash on whatever you needed.

Minerals from winning battles. You get 35% of your opponents minerals (rounded up) when you win.

Minerals from getting good "marks". Then setup a "mark" system so that every has a mark rank on their posts. Other forum members could rank their post as:

1 - Spam 2 - Meh 3 - At least it was on topic 4 - OK post 5 - Good post

And every 5 posts they made averages those (automatic 3 if a post wasn't voted on) and gives them ore equal to the mark rank.

So 5 posts that rank: 5, 4, 4, 4, 3; would give you 4 ore.


But then again, who knows how long that would take to program.

I cant say it wasn't you, but at the same time you weren't the only one. It was just a couple of posts.

The only time I really relax these days is this website and the odd game of minesweeper flags with paladin while doing an essay. The last time I went on sc was last weekend when I was buried in work

yeah, sometimes i just don't think about what i'm posting either. some of that spam was me too (but not a lot ) sorry.

Yes. Let's all make posts saying "Part of the spam was me" to gain miner... I mean, help fix the problem. -_-
Come on guys, raise the character limit.

And let's all do off-topic conversation saying that the OTHER people that replied before you gained 5 minerals and you did too by a bizare luck >:D

The problem with that idea is that people might abuse this system, such as giving somebody you don't like ones all the time, or something like that. Maybe instead, have the value based on the numbers of warns that you have, with the more warns meaning less minerals fior you.

I still don't post to gain minerals. I would edit previous posts instead, but that doesn't work and nobody checks older posts anyways... And I try to make my posts say something anyways. I don't just post to be posting.

btw this is my last post in this topic.

That person isn't the ONLY person voting. So it doesn't really matter.

Okay, here's another thing: who would bother even voting, unless to intentionally do some harm? To prevent bad posts, we already have a report function. That can lead of to warns if needed, wwhich would decrease the mineral increases.

Obviously you fit into the "vote only to decrease ore count" catagory.

I made the idea with the thought in mind of what I would actually want to do.

Alternatively it could be STAFF only voting. That way you know it's just.

not necessarily. i wouldn't trust shadow paladin with anything