Likely the longest discussion board thread

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-07-21 12:52am

You can see it here http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~klingonacad ... adid=14879

As of this writing it is at 36999 posts.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-21 01:04am

Who's going to volunteer to read all 1,956 pages?

It seems pretty spammy to me. And wasn't my thread in A&P closed due to server difficulties before reaching 100 pages? If so, how did this one last so long?

David · Post by **David** » 2003-07-21 01:04am

I've seen thread at tf.net that are this long. Board errors started forcing the mods to close the threads after a certain point.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-21 01:07am

That's what happens when you encourage spam and have no spam deletion policy in effect.

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2003-07-21 01:08am

I'm amazed, at nearly 2000 pages, I would think that everything that
can be said about the topic would have been said already.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-21 01:10am

http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=10243

Colony Wars thread. 38,945 posts at this time. It has now been going for just over two years.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-07-21 01:12am

Darth Wong wrote:That's what happens when you encourage spam and have no spam deletion policy in effect.

We, of course, employ ninjas and several secret police agencies to deal with spam.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-07-21 01:15am

XaLEv wrote:http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... adid=10243

Colony Wars thread. 38,945 posts at this time. It has now been going for just over two years.

That's the number of views, not posts. It's a mere 5,628 posts as this posting.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-21 01:15am

That and a "Tactile cube"

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-07-21 01:16am

Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-21 01:16am

Cyborg Stan wrote: That's the number of views, not posts. It's a mere 5,628 posts as this posting.

Goddamnit.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-07-21 01:47am

evilcat4000 wrote:Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?

It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-21 01:49am

Darth Wong wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?
It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.

And their privates fed to Fluffy, the Rancor.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-21 01:56am

at SFM we have no fewer then 100 pages of barely clothed men. granted, its one 20th the longest post, there, but i'd say thats pretty good for a site devoted to 3D graphics.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-07-21 01:59am

evilcat4000 wrote:Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?

Not without posts being deleted and threads being locked, perhaps a few members being banned. I'm sure if that thread was started here, it would have been locked by page 4.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-07-21 02:40am

I can just see the guy who coded that message board software coming across that link. He starts to weep, overcome with an unfathomable sadness and shame, and slowly pulls out a pistol. He puts it into his mouth, closes his eyes... and attempts to swallow it. He dies minutes later, having managed to choke to death on a pistol.

I can see that. And the blood is on those bastards' hands.

SirNitram wrote:And their privates fed to Fluffy, the Rancor.

No! Let them find their private parts up a tree in Rutland!

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-07-21 11:26am

Darth Wong wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?
It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.

Well, if we were to "incapacitate" Olrik, we might get around seven pages or so before the other Mods got around to it...

Do you ever have the feeling you're being watched? Because you are.. ^.^ ~ Olrik

Come come, Olrik, young minds fresh ideas, let's be tolerant. ~ Stravo

Silence you, or something may happen to both copies of Starcrossed.
.. On the other hand.. Anyone who posts "Stravo is ____ (insert something bad here) gets a +1 post for free.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-21 11:32am

Not only do that have mind-boggling amounts of spam, but also many people's signatures take up the whole screen and some of them take up more then two.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-21 12:22pm

darthdavid wrote:That and a "Tactile cube"

Don't you mean 'Tactical Cube'?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-21 01:25pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
darthdavid wrote:That and a "Tactile cube"
Don't you mean 'Tactical Cube'?

No he wants to FEEL the cube.

Nitram wrote:Darth Wong wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:
Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?

It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.

And their privates fed to Fluffy, the Rancor.

Then they'd be fed to rabid trek fans with a sign around their neck reading, "One ISD would destroy the UFP."
Let the frenzy begin.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-07-21 01:42pm

How fast did that thread grow. I remember one thread having gone up to something like 900 posts in 4 hours.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-07-21 02:08pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
darthdavid wrote:That and a "Tactile cube"
Don't you mean 'Tactical Cube'?
No he wants to FEEL the cube.

Ummmmm. ok. Why am I getting flashbacks to the Time Cube Guy?

SyntaxVorlon wrote:
Nitram wrote:Darth Wong wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:
Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?

It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.

And their privates fed to Fluffy, the Rancor.
Then they'd be fed to rabid trek fans with a sign around their neck reading, "One ISD would destroy the UFP."
Let the frenzy begin.

But an ISD CAN DESTROY THE UFP!!!!!!!!!!111

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-07-21 02:11pm

RogueIce wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
evilcat4000 wrote:Can such massive spamming occur at SD.net ?
It would be ruthlessly crushed and the perpetrators carried off to the Gulag.
Well, if we were to "incapacitate" Olrik, we might get around seven pages or so before the other Mods got around to it...

Seven? You delude yourself. They'll have to promote someone to replace him, and logically, that's me (don't ask me to explain my logic, just go with it). And, as I've explained before, I LOVE locking threads. Lock lock lockitty lock. I'll jump on spam like a starving pit bull on a vegan diet. I'll lock threads so hard my mouse-clicking finger will hurt. I'll be the bane of spammers, the unstoppable force that the +1's see in their darkest nightmares. I'll make DOZENS of thread locked pictures and use them all every day! No one can stop me! No one! Bwa-hahahahahahahaha!

Ahem. Sorry.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-07-21 02:13pm

I remember the Ask Kelly thread growing to something like 14 pages in a single day.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-07-21 02:25pm

There was a huge one on the Babylon 5 boards a while ago, called "who would win" that was definately over 30 000 posts...