2008-09-03, 03:50 PM
The above response was spam :-P
Anyway, I've been a moderator on a few different forums before and I have closed topics in "spam" sections.
Usually, the main two reasons are either that the thread is degenerating into a flamewar or that the thread is an absolute waste of bandwidth ( for example, did you see that one thread where someone's whole post was hundreds of
?).
Other than that, I've locked threads because they had served their purpose and any further input would either be redundant or unwanted/flamey/flamebaity. When someone asks a simple question and gets a valid answer, you don't need 20 more people chiming in "yeah, that's right".
I've also moved threads from spam to other sections of the board when they warranted it. Then again, I never saw a point to a spam section. I still don't understand why people like them. Most of the good topics can easily fall in a different section anyway.
Anyway, I've been a moderator on a few different forums before and I have closed topics in "spam" sections.
Usually, the main two reasons are either that the thread is degenerating into a flamewar or that the thread is an absolute waste of bandwidth ( for example, did you see that one thread where someone's whole post was hundreds of
?).Other than that, I've locked threads because they had served their purpose and any further input would either be redundant or unwanted/flamey/flamebaity. When someone asks a simple question and gets a valid answer, you don't need 20 more people chiming in "yeah, that's right".
I've also moved threads from spam to other sections of the board when they warranted it. Then again, I never saw a point to a spam section. I still don't understand why people like them. Most of the good topics can easily fall in a different section anyway.