If you posted 20+ times in the past 12 hours? that's too much.

[FranOhmsford]

a) its the weekend - the troll's come out of hiding.
b) its a holiday (double actually) weekend - and troll's love holiday weekends.
c) the particular type of underground burial chamber trolls love to toss on their clean socks and post on Friday / Saturday.
d) if it smells like dirty sock water, and it is a weekend....
e) and finally, it's the type of topic they love - a way to attack / defame / inflame / provoke in order to try to make themselves feel less supercilious, slimy and troll-like.

Draw you own conclusions. Troll Sock Water is very slimy and very much in poor taste, which goes very well with the original theme of this topic - something to do with forum ettiquette. :P

I notice this thread was posted on a saturday morning at 01.59 am.

[EllisDee37]

I don't happen to be guilty of this particular instance, but have certainly been guilty of this in past. I'll try to be mindful of this going forward.

[Elsbet]

Did the OP ask for squelching? I think not.

Squelch in the general "suppress discussion" sense, not the technical mechanic. Believe it or not, words had real meaning before coders get their grubby mitts on them.

[Vellrad]

If there would be something more to do in game than boring constand gain/throw away XP and a 1 raid each 3 days, maybe some people would post less BS.
Maybe.

[Holymunchkin]

a) its the weekend - the troll's come out of hiding.
b) its a holiday (double actually) weekend - and troll's love holiday weekends.
c) the particular type of underground burial chamber trolls love to toss on their clean socks and post on Friday / Saturday.
d) if it smells like dirty sock water, and it is a weekend....
e) and finally, it's the type of topic they love - a way to attack / defame / inflame / provoke in order to try to make themselves feel less supercilious, slimy and troll-like.

Draw you own conclusions. Troll Sock Water is very slimy and very much in poor taste, which goes very well with the original theme of this topic - something to do with forum ettiquette. :P

Is he irritated? Obviously. Does he have a point? Kinda.

But the OP is obviously not trolling. As much as you like insinuating that others are trolls Uur, it is my observation that many times you troll threads yourself. If you don't like his irritated tone you are more than free to ignore the post.

Many of us engage in "spammy" behavior, and the OP is obviously calling for some restraint---which I'm sympathetic to. Obviously the point of the OP's thread has drawn more attention than many of the review threads. I was afraid it would be a lightning rod for silliness, and it is. Best to lock it at this point I think.

[Augon]

No need to name names as you all know who you are. Don't you realize that the deafening roar of your constant posts drown out and BURY many thoughtful and useful posts by people doing testing and playing on Lamma who normally never post in the forums? Don't you realize by now that you have posted so darn much so many times a day that by and large the Developers now just skim over or ignore all two or three dozen posts you feel compelled to make?

Wouldn't it be nice if People said their piece in just a couple concise fact heavy posts and then shut the hell up for a while and waited patiently while others could offer agreement/disagreement/alternatives? God knows it would be better than having to shift through the same **** people posting tiny little volleys back and forth dozens of friggen times on just one bloody page for some mirage of supremacy, all while stifling and drowning out the input of other contributors.

Seriously, shut the hell up. If you can't get your point across and defend your ideas in less then 20 friggen posts your are just posting to hear yourself. And if you insist on the self-gratifying post orgy behavior? Go do it on the general boards where everyone ignore everyone else already and leave the **** Lamma threads alone.



Thank you for your time.


Clarification: Just to nip this in the bud, before anyone feels the need to claim otherwise I'm not speaking of myself when it comes to being drowned out. Lucky for me I am capable of dealing with the Maelstrom of self-inflated post avalanches that some of our members seem to feel the need to unleash daily. But I am concerned when I have to bloody shift through all the conflated self-promoting garbage to find the few interesting and informative posts the real tester/players are trying to make. Like a friggen prospector panning for gold in a steam-bed of mediocre self-important spam.

To a degree, I understand where you are coming from. But I don't think the number of posts are really the issue. Since you did not name names (which is proper forum etiquette), we can only guess who you are referring to and what exactly their posts were. There are many cases where a forumite may post 20+ times in a 12 hour period because of responding to multiple threads and the posts of others. there are other times when a person may post only 5 posts and that is really too much.

Your post throws in an arbitrary numerical value as to what is "too much" and uses dramatization and cursing to "make your point." To me, the ranting language of this post is just as bad and just as pointless as the 20 post forumite you are ranting about.

To use your own rating system, would you consider your post to be "concise and fact heavy?"

As I said, I understand where you are coming from, and to some degree I would probably agree. But I think you posted this in a moment of irritation and/or anger and the emotional overflow weakens the effectiveness and message of the post (IMHO).

[Cordovan]

We don't have limits on how often people post, unless they are posting the same thing over and over or spamming. We understand that it can be annoying to some folks to see particularly vocal posters rack up a large post count, but we don't consider posting activity to be a bad thing. They choose to be actively engaged in the forums, and that's cool. Yes, sometimes people over the years have perhaps attempted to take over debates through frequent posting, but we would rather that be the occasional annoyance than set some kind of limit on how often people can post. You can choose to read and respond to forum posts, so if you feel someone is posting too often, feel free to not read it. You can also add them to your Ignore list if you prefer.

We are good at sorting through feedback, and making sure that frequency of posting doesn't add undue weight to a suggestion or belief.

While the OP was careful to not name names, the "shut the heck up" bit is not appropriate. I will be closing the thread. If someone in the thread has a strong opinion they wish to share with us, feel free to PM me.