Let me clear one thing up before I make this post.. I am not trying to offend anyone.
Now, onto the post.. I personally have not followed this "Spaminator" saga but from what I saw and understand it was just a simple way to enterain the members of the board due to the fact the board has been slowing down and slowly changing over time, for the most part it wasn\'t just mindless one word replys, yes there was some, but those could of been handled without having all this happen. As for my comments about the board changing, yes it has been.. Let\'s face it people, this board for the most part has became more serious and like any community (internet or real life) has lost members, gained members and due to that the board has changed. Infact, it seems as though unlike a year ago, when we could all have fun in a topic without much flaming or spamming, now\'a\'days any given topic will end up in flaming or spamming. This is one of many reasons I don\'t bother posting near as much now\'a\'days and I have even considered leaving the board for good, but I stay for the fact that there is still some quality threads around here, it just takes more time to find \'em.
As for the cure to the spaminator problem, I think MM\'s was the best choice over SG\'s for one reason.. If we start to give someone one warning over a one word reply that is viewed as spam and then it happens again and that person gets banned, we are going to end up banning a lot of older and "respected" members. On the other hand, Weltall brings up a valid point, what about those of us who mostly post in Off-Topic? We won\'t get our posts counts raised. I am personally not bothered by that - but I can see why some are and I think Weltall\'s point is very valid. However, I still stand by the fact that I think MM done what was best on this one by freezing post count in Off-Topic.. Then again, I am in favor of freezing post counts all across the board and setting up a new system on how someone gets a picture, such as a behavior system - where as if you behave and make quality posts for six months or so, then all the MOD\'s vote and decide if you are "respectable" enough for a picture.
I\'d also like to point out something about this very thread.. Does anyone notice how most of this is senseless bickering back and forth and it hasn\'t been closed? The board has been filled with this stuff lately and nothing is done, yet a harmless joke such as the "Spaminators" was going to warrant a ban? This doesn\'t make sense, in my opinion. I would rather see the Mod\'s pay more attenion to closing some of these threads that are nothing but flaming, dealing with some of the fanboys and in general correcting some of the members behavioral problems, instead of freaking out about if someone has a group called the spamintator\'s so they can bring some fun to the board,.
We have lost a lot of members in recent times and some of them wasn\'t liked by everyone on the board , which is natrual but they all brought a certain "flavor" to the board. I\'m sure some of the "old- timers" recall Jumpman when he was behaving (yes, he did behave sometimes), he could be fun, intelligent and even argue a decent point about anything, he was what AlteredBeast is to Sega on this board - a fan who likes to defend his console of choice. Then we have Luke who is now gone, a funny guy who while didn\'t post a lot in console debating or Main Forum, he was still fun to have around. The same applies to VideoHolic and Weltall - who is still here, but you can tell is thinking about leaving. The list goes on and on. You can say that they all left because they didn\'t like the rules or whatever, but that isn\'t true. I remember threads a year ago that would span ten pages and have no true meaning (" I love SmallLady!", "*KICK*) and nothing was ever really said, due to the fact it was all in fun. Then there is someone like Jumpman who was banned for acting out and being mean, rude or whatever you want to call it. Well, wake up! There is plenty of new people who do that and nothing has been done. What is fair for one is fair for the other in my opinion. We can\'t change rules mid-stream or bend them for one person, just because we don\'t like them or whatever.
In short; this board has a lot more problems than the Spaminiators and if they aren\'t addressed we are going to end up losing more and more members, until the day comes that the last remaining few realize they don\'t have a clue who anyone on the board is.
