Chit Chat

[FlipMode]

I keep thinking the main page is the chatroom and spamming the MLK banner like "WTF!"

[Tabby]

Can't post either...

[Biomac]

Censorship only belongs to dictatorship. That's what I have to say.

[Moka]

1. What does that have to do with anything?
2. This forum isn't a democracy, very very very few websites are.
3. Censorship is very common in China and North Korea, and was rampant in Soviet Russia. None of these are dictatorships, which makes that statement completely false anyway.

Thanks for your input, though.

[Biomac]

I meant that if we start to delete sections that important only by saying that it spams the forum - in a way I don't get - , it reminds me censorship because members probably don't have anything to say. And I think this is sad to say that MLK isn't democratic even a bit, because after all, it's because of the members if the forum is active, and you can be proud of it Moka. And the countries you mentionned are dictatorships, just saying.

[DGFone]

I don't think that the spam topics will be deleted. Just that their activity will be lowered as members will start using the chatroom instead.

And while China is bad, it's not a dictatorship, BTW. Just a very corrupt one-party state.

[Regulus]

I could be wrong, but I thought the plan was to lock many of the spam topics in the member HQ and den.

[MrTitans]

So the issue is chat rooms are causing spam?

[Moka]

What sections are being deleted? I don't understand what you're complaining about. I'm honestly sick of people complaining about censorship. This forum needs censorship in the very same way we need moderators to remove posts that are offensive. If we don't, I get sued. I don't like getting sued.

Almost everything everywhere goes through a censorship, even in the great, free United States of America. All of our television and radio content goes through the FCC before it can come to our eyes and ears. The FCC is an agency that was set up by our Congress. This was not an act of dictatorship. Those countries weren't "officially" dictatorships. *giggles* But I know what you mean.

I believe every member has a say in what happens at MLK, but in the end, I'm the one paying $60 every month for this website.

[DGFone]

So the issue is chat rooms are causing spam?

That's the idea. That there are now a bunch of topics that don't really do anything, can be easily replaced by the chatbox, and are only really serving, apart from the first few minutes when a reply is posted in one, to take up space.

Needless to say, MLK will become a nasty place to be if those are locked, because quite a few members love those topics, even if they will move onto the chatbox. So wait before locking them to see if that is actually necessary.