GD may close for a while

Let's go totalitarian style and ban those who aren't astute enough to contribute in a useful way to the forum. Make IQ testing mandatory on joining. Anyone who fails may be pointed in the direction of The Student Room.
 
It allows users to post topics that do not fit into other forums, such as problems etc... As long as spam is tightly controlled by the Dons it shouldn't be a problem
 
manveruppd said:
Thanks Spie, got a lot of work to do and my forum addiction isn't helping me get it done! :p

In fact, could someone please suspend me for a week or so?:D
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if you genuinely want that doing then contact a don/admin
 
I don't want to see GD Closed :(


But it might do it some good, there are lots of stupid threads started every day.

EDIT : The above link with the stupid cat talking thing confused me a lot, and i think it was just spam :confused:
 
Turn GD into a funny forum section..

Each thread would be a poll and if it was under a certain funny limit.. which i dub the funno'limito, pronounced "fun-oh-limb-eat-oh".. then that user is suspended.. job done..
 
MoNkeE said:
And iCraig, how can you think that the quality of threads is terrible, yet think it should be left alone?
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I didn't say that, I said this:

iCraig said:
It's a good idea, but what happens when it's re-opened? A few days of sensible threads and back to how it is now? Sounds like a band-aid fix to me.

Removing GD entirely would higher the standards of the forum, if that's what you're after, but the userbase would suffer.
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Fusion said:
Let's go totalitarian style and ban those who aren't astute enough to contribute in a useful way to the forum. Make IQ testing mandatory on joining. Anyone who fails may be pointed in the direction of The Student Room.
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Please... Not the Student room.
GD is generally seen as the "Misc" Forum, It helps keep spam and rubbish out of other topic areas
 
What about the CTRL+V thread, seems pointless to me.

Also what's with the regular 9/11 threads, can't people just use one of the previous ones.
 
i havent really noticed anything that is worthy of complaining of... :confused: infact i was chatting to sequoia in one thread and thought it was of a very high standard...
 
Freefaller said:
If I thought that thread served no purpose it wouldn't be there anymore. It's a fun bit of banter which is what GD should be all about.

There is no fun banter in GD anymore. It's either one extreme - aggressive nasty posting, to the other - pure drivel.
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I think the problem with that thread is, whilst it's a good and interesting discussion, the way it was started leaves a lot to be desired. I mean, hinting towards what you're thinking about and then leaving it to everyone else to guess the specifics is pretty silly :p

-RaZ
 
MoNkeE said:
I think the problem with that thread is, whilst it's a good and interesting discussion, the way it was started leaves a lot to be desired. I mean, hinting towards what you're thinking about and then leaving it to everyone else to guess the specifics is pretty silly :p

-RaZ
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Like I've already said 75658 times, it was a short, indescript OP to see how many people grasped it with the small amount of information. Plenty of people did, and thread was successful. :)
 
How about a voting system for each thread (along the lines of the star system except with plus and minus) and if it goes too far into the 'red' the thread is given the boot.
 
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