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Good day to the Buildism community,
I do not know if any of you have noticed, but my post count on Buildism has been very low compared to many of you, considering the fact that I've extremely active on Buildism as of recent. There is a reason for this, and I would like to share it with you all. Perhaps some of you will understand the logic behind conserving one's posts on the Buildism forum. I hope that you guys use my example to your advantage, as it will save many of you from getting warned / banned, getting into flame wars (to all degrees), becoming known as a spammer / annoyance to the community, becoming disrespected, or similar. The list goes on. I'm going to do my best to keep this thread as short as possible, yet at the same time, I'll also try to make my point loud and clear.
As you all know, it's a great thing to be active on the forum, but that doesn't always mean responding to every thread that you come across. Responding to everything, or even close to everything for that matter, will generally bring you trouble sooner or later, which could mean a lot of things. A lot of you make this mistake as to post on everything including threads that are spam, pointless, or against the Buildism rules. Why is this bad?
Well, let me give you a few examples. Let's say that there is a "spammer" on the loose chain-spamming or just rapidly creating new pointless or insulting threads / posts on the forum. What good would it be for a Buildism member to reply to the spammer saying, "Stop spamming"? It won't do anything to stop the situation; if anything, posting something like that will "add to the fire". In other words, making such a post will make matters worse. Why not leave that up to the staff to deal with? After all, they have the right to respond to such threads with moderation action, which is a lot more effective than a mini-mod trying to end the spammer's rage by posting "Stop spamming".
Another example I can give you is this: when a Buildism member posts a pointless thread, or a thread that is irrelevant to you, then all you have to do is not post on it. If you do not feel that the thread does anything for you, then what is the point of posting on it? If your response to that question is honestly, "to get my post count up", then that is not an excuse. Pointless threads should be locked / removed from the public forum by the Buildism moderation team, so does it really look good to the staff / community if you are, again, feeding the fire by replying to pointless threads with more pointless replies or any replies at all? I don't think so. If someone makes a thread titled, "I like pie", for a silly example, then I don't even both to open it. Neither should you guys, because it would be a plain waste of time. The administration, on the other hand, has every reason to open the thread so that they can moderate it. The only reason that I would open the thread is to send a report to the moderation team so that they can deal with it. Don't make yourself look bad to the staff and community. by feeding into pointless threads.
In addition, even if the thread isn't pointless but it doesn't pertain or do anything for you in any way, shape, or form, then don't respond to it. There isn't any reason to go out of your way to write, "tl;dr", or "I don't know anything about this, sorry", or something else to that extent. It looks terrible when you do that.
The last large point that I am going to make in this thread (I have more, but I already see this thread becoming overwhelmingly large) is that when you come across a thread that is not abiding the Buildism terms of service, then the last thing you want to do (as a regular member) is mini-moderate it, or feed the fire. Mini-moderating these rule-breaking threads is not only against the rules (as of recently apparently), but it also lowers your image to the community. Just don't respond to those kinds of threads.
If you have read this far, I just want to give you a sincere thank you. Don't just thank me for writing this thread though; thank yourself for taking the time to read it. It will help you more than you know in the long run. Remember one more thing: the staff do not, by any means, need to follow this thread's concepts, because they have a job - a duty to fulfill. Their job requires them to respond to these threads, either through making a post reminding the user not to make such threads / posts, or by even going as far as to take moderation action against the thread or user.
Thank you for your time, and best of luck on your foruming careers on Buildism! I hope I was a good help to the community by writing this thread up.
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they suspended my hosting account and deleted all my files because I went inactive for a month (I was on vacation)... I sent them an email and they basically told me that they didn't care and the files are gone (They said it a lot different but that's what they meant.)
BUT Y U SO ADDICTING!
