Hooker wrote:I just saw the poor FireArrow again deleting spam and searching bad spammer-guys like me.
1. We have already too much spam, giving it a topic we would only trigger an even bigger response.
Hooker wrote:This community is kinda big and the server are strong enough to hold a little Non-Teeworlds-Related area, don't you think so, too?
2. The community is indeed quite large, but most off-topic material only comes from a select group of people who don't seem to get that their input isn't welcome on this forum.
Hooker wrote:There should also be rules. It's not a spam-area, it's an OFFTOPIC area.
3. More rules to control these off-topic areas would mean more work for the moderators, and they've plenty of other things to do.
Hooker wrote:Yeah, this is a Teeworlds forum, but nearly every Forum has an area for the community.
4. I don't think we want the Teeworlds forum to become similar to many other forums, we need it to stand out for it's quality. Allowing off-topic material will therefor be counter-productive.
0³7 wrote:i think its a good idea because if we could spam on a special Playground, we won't spam other topics!
6. In a perfect world this forum shouldn't deserve any spam at all, even not when it would be channeled through a specific forum. Instead of people screaming "USE SEARCH" people would just scream "SPAM IN OFF-TOPIC". (which would then also be spam, resulting in even more spam)
Hooker wrote:Okay another suggestion: An (only 1) offtopic thread without flaming and without spamming?
7. Will you take the unhappy task of assuring it stays free of flaming and spamming? I really don't think the moderators want to spend even more time on maintaining the forum, especially for something as irrelevant as off-topic material.
The internet is so big that there are more places to spam then there are trees in the rain forest. Better spend your time saving the trees then to dishonor a quality forum like this one.