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Originally posted by Zulithe
Okay, the forum won't let me quote AlkarenHyralt's post because it's too big so I'll do it this way.
I don't agree. If people are so worried about post counts and wine and cry that people are spamming to get more posts, the solution is to hide post counts or REMOVE post counts. I AM 100% IN FAVOR OF REMOVING POST COUNTS
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Spamming is not always about post count. Some people do it, just to be funny. Personally I don't care if people spam to get their post count up; post count means nothing. But I don't like to see a bunch of spam in the main forum where I try to read threads.
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It can be a very fine line! Insulting and harassing is against the rules, those rules are enforced. It's that simple, the definition of flame is not the issue here.
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Well, to me it looked like you misunderstood what flaming was.
Insulting is another thing that while something may be insulting to one, it is funny to another. I don't exactly like that rule. Because it's hard to tell what is insulting and what isn't; it all matters on the person's...well, mod's opinion.
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Yes it is, THESE are the tools that mods use. They are the only tools needed, other than rules to enforce.
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Indeed, tools to help find a solution. They are not a solution themselves.
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That may be, but not if my rules conflict with the ones Unixmad set into place. Which in the instances I've been giving examples of, it would.
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I have never seen a mod make rules that conflict with those set by admins, in all my years.

A lot of times, rules are just altered some to help narrow it down for a certain forum by that forum's mod/s.
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Well if you want to get technical... :-p
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Oh but I must.
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Nothing is so black and white, I never said I would throw all similar topics into one thread. But many of them may need to be in the same thread, it just depends. This is another example of a mod using his innate ability to use his power to the best ability (assuming he has such an ability heh) If not merge them, then what then? DELETE?
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Tools. Remeber that those things are tools. And tools are not needed all the time. Most of the time, merge is almost never needed to be used. Only time it should be used is if there is cross posting, or something like that. Merging things makes things very confusing.
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I don't think that is the answer either. The topic at hand has seemed to be what threads should be deleted, and which should not. That is why I mentioned merge as an alternative to deleting.
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As you said, give threads a chance. A lot of times they may start somewhat different, but will go in a completely different way than one about maybe the same topic. Much like a book.
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I can not do it... sadly. It would help me a lot. I have never been able to do it (only to my own posts)
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How odd...that privilage is key to being a mod. Very strange that it was removed....