Createspam, Createblog has created a monster Options

[NoSex]

Alright. I have noticed recently that these boards have been suffering from an obscene amount of spam and one on one conversation based posting. The entire vibe and feel of the boards have, in my opinion, reached a kind of low. The debate threads are more stagnant than ever. The lounge is a waste of time. The entertainment threads suffer any kind of in-depth or worthwhile posts. It just seems like the community boards are really beginning to suck.

The problem is, how would we solve this problem?
Do we need to punish those spammers? If so, will traffic decrease to a useless degree?
Maybe we can try to attract some older parties?
The debate thread could become exclusive. But, then it might actually become entirely stagnant.
The idea for an art subforum seems to be a push in the right direction.
Or maybe I should just find a more suitable community board?

What do you guys think?

[sadolakced acid]

spam is delicious.

the problem is, there aren't enough people to eat it, so it starts stinking.

seriously, without all the idiots on the boards, i would not enjoy it.

but you do have to have people to make snarky remarks in thier general direction.

seriously. spam is delicious.

expecially in debate. i mean, what fun is it when everone agrees? it's better when you have a worthy adversary, but that will almost always end in a stalemate. No, what's fun is when you're up against idiot spammers who stick around to make fools of themselves. Then you can beat them, and feel good about it.

there is , of course, a line between being snarky to spammers and just a plain ass. but hey, all the more fun.