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henryzz

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 14

Spam

could we have a spam section for games and spam

Ricky

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Registered: 2005-12-04

Posts: 3,791

Re: Spam

What exactly do you mean a spam section?  Who wants to see spam?

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MathsIsFun

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Registered: 2005-01-21

Posts: 7,713

Re: Spam

There is a Puzzles and Games section, so that only leaves spam.

We could have spam and spam ...

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Devantè

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 6,400

Re: Spam

could we have a spam section for games and spam

No, this is not one of those boards where you can spam as much as you like.

mathsyperson

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Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 4,900

Re: Spam

The usual reason for a spam section is to act as a kind of litter bin. If people are given a place to spam, then the belief is that they spam less on the other, more important boards.
I'm against this though. These tend to not work very well.

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LQ

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Registered: 2006-12-04

Posts: 1,285

Re: Spam

What if you had a "scratch board", basically one post, and alot of user names by it, and when you click a username, his text come up. Next to every post you could have a "vote for cleaning" button.

And every guest post or thread could have a "vote for scratchboard" button.

Last edited by LQ (2007-06-25 01:09:36)

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henryzz

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 14

Re: Spam

currently we basically have a board for puzzles
there is nothing being continuously answered really
i mean things like count to 1000, war of the world

Ricky

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Registered: 2005-12-04

Posts: 3,791

Re: Spam

This or That

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Devantè

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 6,400

Re: Spam

currently we basically have a board for puzzles
there is nothing being continuously answered really
i mean things like count to 1000, war of the world

Then a lot of people here would just post there and do nothing else. We can't design this type of section just for you, and I don't think it actually needs to be created because we have a 100-character rule. Until the PunBB software is updated, we may take this kind of thing into account. Can you imagine a mathematics site where a good majority of users used only those features?

henryzz

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 14

Re: Spam

what can we do to make our guests sign up
we usually have over 50 guests and very few regestered people

Devantè

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 6,400

Re: Spam

Well, as of this moment in time, we do not have that many guests, and they would most definitely be attracted to that sort of thing.