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Post by CreativeFox on Jul 27, 2005 10:04:02 GMT
I think it would be good having a Happy Birthday board, maybe as a sub-board in the arrivals departures lounge. It's quite annoying seeing loads of 'happy birthday' threads in Chillout and see theem filled to the top with spam.
It would also be good (if you made the board) if post's did not go up. So then there wouln't be any spamming and only genuine 'happy birthday' wishes.
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2005 10:34:01 GMT
Hmm yeah, it's just being friendly though. However recently it is getting to be like one birthday topic everyday. I think one way to do it would be to remove the birthdays from the info center with some code.
A board seems a little too much to me.
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Post by CreativeFox on Jul 27, 2005 10:42:55 GMT
Yeah , you're right. Some aren't doing it to be friendly though, they do it to knock up their post count.
Removing the Birthdays from Info Center would probably be best.
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Post by crazynarutard on Jul 27, 2005 10:48:55 GMT
remove bdays from IC?? please dont do that you could put it in the rules not to post "happy birthday" threads in chillout
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Post by Josh on Jul 27, 2005 13:25:00 GMT
And who actually reads the rules except for n00bs like me? I think either losing the section or adding a board with disabled post count would work.
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Post by jaroessa on Jul 27, 2005 17:29:00 GMT
Personally I'd see a board as a little too aggressive. Might make people believe they need to make a Happy Birthday topic for whoever happens to be celebrating on that particular day. Where as it's fine right now. You get a Happy Birthday topic once every couple days (or a couple every day, depending), and that's that.
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Post by Psionic on Jul 27, 2005 18:05:34 GMT
I don't really see a problem with it. People are just trying to be nice by saying, "Hey, happy birthday mate." No harm done. As for the spam, I haven't seen any, yet. Oliver, what do you expect? When you have almost 11,500 members, there might be a few birthdays for active people in the same day.
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Post by Kay on Jul 27, 2005 18:31:39 GMT
Why don't you guys just keep it to where the birthdays are still in the IC, but make it a rule, that if you wish to say happy birthday to them that you do it in a PM, that would end all the spamming.
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Post by overload on Jul 27, 2005 19:24:36 GMT
I think thats a good idea - but if you must remove it, can you it after 10th December plz ;D
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Post by Mitchell on Jul 27, 2005 22:46:49 GMT
I think it's getting just a little out of hand. I think that happy birthday threads should be kept to staff or active members celebrating birthdays. And I think that only Admins or Gmods should be able to make a happy birthday thread. Just make a rule, and if someone doesn't obey the rule, delete their thread. Simple.
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Post by Morgoth on Jul 28, 2005 7:51:00 GMT
Personally I'd see a board as a little too aggressive. Might make people believe they need to make a Happy Birthday topic for whoever happens to be celebrating on that particular day. Where as it's fine right now. You get a Happy Birthday topic once every couple days (or a couple every day, depending), and that's that. I completely agree, if people see a board, then they'll post in it, inevitably leading to a stream of unnecessary birthday topics.
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