NationStates Jolt Archive


A question (suggestion?) re Spam

Daistallia 2104
15-03-2005, 18:44
I may be missing something here, but it often seems that Spam threads are closed instead of being sent to the Jolt spam forum.
In fact this is the only threaf I can remember being sent there: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404899

Having seen that, I am curious: why are NS spam threads generally closed instead of being moved to the Jolt forum provided? Is it too much effort? Would it not be benificial to move all spamy threads to the appropriate forum(s)?

The same could be said of many questionable topics, like the clubs or humor.
Frisbeeteria
15-03-2005, 19:01
The following March 2005 threads were either moved to spam or created by NationStates posters. On many of these, I did the moving without waiting for somebody to post about it. Hardly any of them came from General. In fact, NationStates gets more pure spam topics than most of the rest of the forums (if you count General topics as being non-spammy, which most of them aren't).

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=405089
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404899
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404763
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404757
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404551
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404314
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=404084
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=403774
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=403409
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=402678
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=402558
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=402441
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=402213
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401252
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=400095

I don't think anyone could accuse us of not contributing adequate quantities of spam to Jolt's system.