Cleaning Up Sacred Cow-Patties

[Nifft]

Thanks for locking down some of the MANY useless "sacred cow" threads.

It's an odd phenomenon: one thread on a topic spawned a somewhat interesting discussion, which blossomed into two child threads -- one of which was potentially interesting. Then, today, we suddenly had 1.43 (metric) bazillion threads with tiny first posts and provocative titles. Is it just one user's spam, or is this form of attention-grabbing a meme that people (particularly mods) have experience with?

Rubbernecking on the Infobahn, -- N

EDIT: changed thread title

 

[Mistwell]

Didn't we recently have an "I'm THROUGH with "I'M THROUGH WITH" threads" thread?

 

[Nifft]

Yeah. But this thread is just a "thank you" for the swift kicking of spam-cans in their ... er ... cans.

-- N

 

[Piratecat]

Thanks! And particular thanks to Wulf Ratbane, who didn't post "Piratecat: Essential Moderator or Sacred Cow?"

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

I think that PirateCat should be limited to 10 thread closings per day.

 

[Nifft]

Darkness now also has a confirmed cow kill.

... and it's a thread about Piratecat as a sacred cow. sigh Humor is nice, but this is too predictable to be funny.

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Seriously, anyone have insight into why meme-spamming is getting more popular? Could we contain stuff like that by preemptively putting up a single thread for people to make Sacred Cow jokes?

It's not actually that annoying, but it is pointlessly annoying, and I wonder if there's anything that can be done.

Thanks, -- N

 

[Bront]

Seriously, anyone have insight into why meme-spamming is getting more popular? Could we contain stuff like that by preemptively putting up a single thread for people to make Sacred Cow jokes?

Being a copy cat requires less thought and makes you look smarter than you are?

 

[Arkhandus]

*shrug* I just posted mine as parody of the others that were kinda annoying to see cropping up on the front page of the General forum. Of course somehow that didn't get the point across, that the quasi-4E threads that basically boiled down to 'why isn't D&D all UA-Generic-Classes or GURPS-Lite or C&C based?', were getting annoying.

Didn't mean to fan the flames of further silly threads in that vein. :\

And I'm just snarky/sarcastic by nature; when all you have are sour grapes around you, you make raisins. Or wine. Or grape juice maybe. I dunno what I'm getting at now..... *shuffles off*

 

[diaglo]

Being a copy cat requires less thought and makes you look smarter than you are?

i'd go so far as to say a "poor imitation of the real thing"

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Sheesh. Are you all paying for bandwidth by the bit? A little bit of silliness is welcome, I say.

And I cherish the irony of Piratecat being too late to lock the 'Is Piratecat Essential' thread I figured he'd unlock it just so he could re-lock it himself.