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  1. #1
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    Time out for this forum

    After we noticed in the recent months that this forum was almost only used for spam posts (95 %), we decided to shut it down for a while.

  2. #2

    Re: Time out for this forum

    after all these years your going to shut this down ???
    A poet knows no boundary yet he is bound to the boundaries of ones own mind !! ........

  3. #3
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    Are you out of your mind? Shut this forum down?

  4. #4
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    hello easy guys, i believe he is talking about the 'general off topic' branch, not the mother-ship
    Ladyhawke - My Delirium, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_bFO1SNRZg

  5. #5
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    Good grief. So this is what I find, when after an absence of a couple of years, I come by to say Hi to anyone who has a long memory.
    Still happy in Mississippi, in spite of all the craziness around.
    John
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    It's like doing jigsaw puzzles in the dark.
    Enjoy today's problems, for tomorrow's may be worse.

  6. #6
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    I remember you from way back.
    Gerry

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  7. #7
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    I'm not sure that will work the way you want it to. When Craigslist shut down their Personals forum, the sex spam metastasized into every other forum on the site. If the spammers have been confining themselves to the Off-Topic forum, that's a good thing. Taking it away isn't going to make them stop spamming.
    Andrew Werby
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  8. #8

    Re: Time out for this forum

    Being more specific helps lol , I look at the whole site as a forum . The site was pretty screwy for a couple days before hand so I thought it was all tied together

    I have to agree , spammers aren't going to care which category they spam in
    A poet knows no boundary yet he is bound to the boundaries of ones own mind !! ........

  9. #9
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    I thought it was about the whole cnczone, feel so stupid now, I'm sorry.

  10. #10
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    Quote Originally Posted by awerby View Post
    I'm not sure that will work the way you want it to. When Craigslist shut down their Personals forum, the sex spam metastasized into every other forum on the site. If the spammers have been confining themselves to the Off-Topic forum, that's a good thing. Taking it away isn't going to make them stop spamming.
    True, this is also one of my concerns. So, it´s a test with shutting down the offtopic forum. It really was annoying that almost every new thread here was considered as spam. Many new members thought probably, that it is allowed to post spam here in an offtopic forum.
    Until now, there doesn´t seem to be much more spam here in other forums, so I don´t think that it was the worst decision to remove it from the main page (And as you can see, it´s still open to post here for "real" members of the comunity)

  11. #11
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    Re: Time out for this forum

    Quote Originally Posted by klaas123 View Post
    I thought it was about the whole cnczone, feel so stupid now, I'm sorry.
    sorry, I agree, I should haven been more precise

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