Yeah man, sorry to say, giveaways with additional rules need to be approved by a mod. I would assume even a forum giveaway. Especially if it promotes spam
Nice idea though
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It isn't a giveaway rule, it is a challange I'm hosting which the winners will gte an invite, so it'll be just a list of qualified people for the giveaway and not a rule.
And I don't think there's a problem in getting approval to host a giveaway just for certain people.
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If he's the one inviting people into a private giveaway, I don't think "special rules" apply here. I'd be worried about promoting spam though. However, as long as it's contained within one single thread, I guess it should be OK.
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I view spamming as a mean to try an annoy OP and the people around, but as long as it's in-context, and the purpose isn't trolling/flaming, it isn't bad. Well I opened a ticket just in case.
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Well, it's spamming in thread, not gonna effect anyone who isn't part of the thread. Except if the spamming will actually have impact on the server.
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Are you talking about posible server impact, or there's something else?
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What if it wasn't, and he's trying to get us banned D:
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I don't think it'll have that strong of an impact, but if I'm wrong, the mods are welcome to close this thread.
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So, what are people supposed to write on the first page?
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Spam are bad because their purpose is usually flaming/trolling, and even when it isn't, it can be very very annoying for the people around. Or is there a different reason why it is a bannable offense? If not, then I don't see any problem with it (except if it would impact server performance) if it doesn't do any harm. You can't say something is bad just because a rule doesn't premit it, you should think why the rule doesn't permit it, and judge based on it, and not just based on a short general summary that is the rule.
EDIT: Just OP approving it isn't enought, because it could still annoy other people in the thread. But can a person complain about spamming in a thread that was created especially for spamming?
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If you don't get the last sentance; spam is very annoying when you do something and it just keeps getting in the way. So in a thread that there's nothing else to do beside spamming, so you have no buisness with it, so the spam inside it doesn't get in your way and doesn't effect you at all, would there be a real reason for a person to complain about it beside of just the casual "hey, let's report"? Of course such thread which is only about spamming and doesn't have a purpose beside it, is a spam by itself, so the thread itself gets in the way in the forum, especially when people bump it, so in that case the thread and the people bumping it should be reported because they do what is bad about spamming but are you gonna as far as tell me that this thread has no purpose beside spamming?
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i'm ending this page now brothers .... brace yourself :D
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Did you know that the first beings that sailed the oceans of the world were squirrels in boats made from nutshell? They also established a world wide trading system that was even used by some civilization of the early mankind. But soon the humans began to build own boats and put the squirrels out of the market.
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Hmm, interesting concept. Might have a flaw in it though: The first one to notice we're on page 2 will have several messages out before other people even notice most likely.
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do you know what it feels like loving someone that's in a rush to throw you awayyy ?
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Why whine about it instead of just putting him on ignore silently? :\
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Looks a lot like whining to me: "If this is still here in 2 days I'll ignore you!"
That way you look like someone who just wants attention.
advice is usually given in a positive matter, like "You might not want to make threads provoking spam, people don't like that and you can end up on ignore lists"
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If that is you're interpretation sure.
Generally an advice means you want to say something helpful to a person, me commenting that I'm gonna ignore him should at least let him realize that what he's doing is annoying. If I didn't make this comment at all, then someone else would say it.
But hey, you're not an asian so you people would only see an advice if the words are cherry picked to make it not appear hostile
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I take it that the last part reffered to my comment.
When talking with people from different cultures, you should take in consideretion their cuture when you pick words. It's not like if in my culture it is ok to call someone 'brother' it'll be ok if I call someone like that from a differnt culture differnt culture where it might be misinterpreted as something offensive. Of course you can't be aware of differnces and say something by mistake, but when you are aware of the differnce but tsill act your way, it's a differnt story.
You say that it's annoying, but not many people complained about it. So criticizing and telling someone to stop doin just because you don't like it out of other people who don't mind or actually interested, is not very nice, in those cases the best option would be turning a blind eye, or even as you said it, put on ignore.
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you're still actually defending that spamming is good? wow
Yeah, if you like to be ignorant, you rather would like to not hear about it. At least we try to be helpful by informing ignorant people like you what's actually wrong rather than people who wouldn't speak up and make you realize it faster.
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Good strawman there. Where exactly i defended spamming? Also in case you read my actual argument about spamming I had with Jonax. Would you accuse me of supporting murder if I say it's a good think if someone killed hitler?
EDIT: I think using exception of the rule is better then not understanding the point of them(So you wouldn't do just what is said not to do, but also things that shouldn't be done even if it isn't written).
EDIT2: Don't bother commenting about the metapor if you don't understand it.
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1) I'tll have no reason to stay alive after the challange challange ends. (unlees it takes 2 days to reach the 2nd page)
2) "all threads that you make" Hmm, let see, last thread I made was week ago, and before that a month ago, damn, all those threads that I make.
3) I have no idea why you so hostile, but it is quite irritating, but if you just plan to be hostile aginst me for whatever reason, I would recommend puuting me in the ignore list so neither of us would be irritated by each other for whatever reason you seem to be.
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read my comment above, if Jonex trying to make you realize what you're doing is wrong, then I'd rather take the hostile approach to make you realize that this shit is annoying.
If you think my comment is irritating, the at least realize what you're doing is irritating for more people in the forum.
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Necroing is bad just because it's posting on old threads? it's bad for when a post is brought back with no particular reasons, old information that might confuse other people, and alot other things that woulc cause harmd and/or reasonable annoyance. Have you never seen an old thread gets a bump for an update about new information and likes of that?
Go to my 4th edit. If you have problem with spamming, just don't go to this thread. Or do you have problem with the existance of this thread and not just the 'spamming' part, because if you're outside the thread I see o reason why the 'spamming' in this thread would bother you.
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Did you even read his 4th edit like he told you to?
He's saying this thread is useless and only spam. How is that hinting towards this thread being useful?
I'm really starting to think you're the ignorant 12 year old kid just wanting attention here. (And here I am being the idiot who provides said attention)
Either that, or you just want to be right and cannot handle the fact that other people may have other opinions. In which case you'd make a perfect dictator or the worst kind of member of any other society.
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It isn't useful, it's only useful for the person who will win, but even then, you think that a thread showing up on the 1st page for a moment in 3 months is such a tragical thing that would harms so many people so much that it doesn't worth the joy of someone who might win in that challange and then also win the giveaway? That's quite egoistical I daresay.
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I am thinking to make another program to spam it, will sound really cool
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This is the second challange in the series of events/chllanges I'll be making, and this challange is all about spamming, so here how it works; the person with the most comments (replies don't count) on the second page of this thread will be entered to the giveaway in March.
Also don't spam the 1st page, whoever does, will be disqualified from all the challanges and I'll postpone the challange for one page, that means if the fisrt page will be spammed too much, the challenge will be for the third page and so on. I'm making it the second page so more people will have chance.
P.S: don't use the script exploit for posting fast, if I seetwo comments mad ein the same second, the person will be disqualified from this challenge.
EDIT: Also for better challenge, don't spam gibberish, each of you spam hsould say something else, and make sense (not just random string of words).
EDIT: You can write anything in the first page, just don't spam. And be sure to write something, because if you don't we will never reach the second page.
EDIT: Mods, if you think mass spamming for 1 page will have impact on the server, you are welcome to close this thread.
EDIT: So it seems some people don't like the idea of 'spamming', I don't blame them, I would be irritated by spamming myself too if it was in my way, so for those people I would recommend just not staying on this thread, nothing to losing here beside spam anyway.
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