Was I dreaming or what?

[BlueSoup]

Ok.

Last night I got extremely tired of all the craptastic posts by the worst spam offenders (and Surelyfunke has defined that quite well) and I was deleting random threads and posts that fit the spam criteria.  Then I just went, "It's all fucking spam, these fucking retards" and decided to delete everything.  I told Pescado halfway through what I was doing so he could sort it out from an older backup.

So some really good things got deleted, and some not-so good things got deleted.

[lnichols]

My first thought as I read this thread was the old "Pirate Song" by Ray Stevens. The pirate captain is talking about going out to rob, loot and pillage. groggin' and wenchin' etc. and one pipes up "I don't like it. It's not me" Sorry, I just had to share that.  

[Quorneater]

Well no great harm's been done, we're still here

I hope it was a cathartic experience

[RedLove]

I agree with Inge. Nobody has been hurt (maybe a few feelings but BLEH) We should put this behind us. Then when something else comes up that might turn into this we can all just say "Wait think about the Time of the Spam"

 

P.s what cathartic?

[calalily]

Cathartic - rid oneself of urges.

I am glad that we did not lose Blue.  I might be a mean salty pirate, but I have been checking back to see if Blue surfaced again.  

[Camilla]

Well, I certainly feel better now.

Listen, in the Birgit thread last night, it was mentioned about CC stuff that overwrites Maxi's crap. Can we start a thread listing the stuff that we run across that does that? It would be helpful. I had mentioned that her Villeroy (V&B) sink overwrites the Maxi vintage oval pedestal sink.

[Tchannie]

I think that when you couldn't go to any thread without the husband crap, it crossed the line.

It wasn't EVERY thread... :oops:
I think Red answered that comment better than me.

And, tbh, I stopped thinking about my post count early on, which is weird for me. I only replied when I wanted to make a comment. It may have been seen as spam, but I very rarely posted anything as fluffy as "I agree" and that's it. I have my own forums which I've moderated in the past and therefore I know how irritating it is to get a one-liner or a smiley as the entire post. I mean, I know I've probably done it myself and I do apologise, but I do know what it's like.

Blue: There were some extremely good threads that got lost in the homicide. It's really quite a shame. We may have to rebuild some of these threads (the ones that were actually on-topic) and who knows; we may get somewhere.

I have to be honest with you, though. When a post you've added 12 pages or so to gets wiped, it gets disheartening. I don't want to play with the Carla thread any more. It's just tiring, trying to write what you've already written or whatever. Most people won't bother, and then you'll end up with a million new threads which say exactly what the old ones said.

[BlueSoup]

I personally don't care if you are disenhearted by the stuff that got lost.  Rebuild it, don't rebuild it, I don't care.

Some of those threads (like the Carla Niven one you mentioned) are just bordering on silly now because they're so long and people are saying the exact same things that were said 60 pages ago!  Move on!

[PirateBooty]

Well, I certainly feel better now.

Listen, in the Birgit thread last night, it was mentioned about CC stuff that overwrites Maxi's crap. Can we start a thread listing the stuff that we run across that does that? It would be helpful. I had mentioned that her Villeroy (V&B) sink overwrites the Maxi vintage oval pedestal sink.

That would be very helpful I think, go ahead and start the thread and maybe provide links to the content as well (on the actual site, not the booty) so those of us who don't have the names of all the CC memorized can see what you mean!

[Camilla]

Ok, done. I posted a link.

[zatanna]

Pirate Booty anytime you post all you do is bitch and whine. So you're pointless.

[PirateBooty]

Shut the fuck up you worthless pile of shit.

[RedLove]

This is borderlining on 12ness and spamming. C'mon guys we just got over the big Spam/12ness thing lets not start it back

[Camilla]

*wanders off humming* ...kumbaya  :lol: and so it goes...

[JMZ]

I am going to do something that I don't do very often... speak up.

Zatanna, I'm afraid your posts were annoying the hell outta me too and I was wondering why no-one was calling you on it.

Actually, I had noticed that the spamminess was spreading exponentially despite the Random Spam thread, and I don't blame Blue in the slightest for deleting. (although it is a shame that some quality posts were lost)

As Red says, I'm sure we can all put the last couple of days behind us. Maybe it won't get so spammy now everyone has had a wake up call.