Okay, we've always known null is the place for spam, a place where you put topics that do not necessarily meet any ot the others SEN's criteria, but seriously, people need to put some effort into their topics.

There was a time when people in the shoutbox said, LOL! *link*, and it was okay. You have the right to laugh at whatever you want and by no mean this topic is intended to unmotivate you to share your laughter with other people BUT

AT LEAST PUT SOME EFFORT IF YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO MAKE IT A TOPIC.
It's okay, Null almost always becomes off-topic fastly, but side comments shouldn't matter as long as the post complements the original post in a way.

Lately, you, yes YOU, are feeling like you want to share something funny with us, do it in the shoutbox please, people that care, will read it and click it from there and chances are that if your topic looks like this:

LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26eXtuatCE

People will usually not care about it, because, really, that's not even a topic, that's a shout, you put no effort into your topic and you didn't even use the youtube tag!
I've said no name, and I hope that no one takes it personally, if someone does, I'm ready to bash. This is just a tendency of crappy, no, REALLY crappy topics I've seen lately in null.

My proposal to moderators is:
Give 2 severity, no less, and close (of course) ALL topics that look that they took less than thirty seconds to be created. It shouldn't matter how funny the link was or how depressed I am, what kind of clothes should I wear or anything at all. If the topic doesn't contribute, not punishing those topics, would only create more of them, and when you guys come to realise you'll have a lot of people just randomly posting one single link and that's the whole topic. Later posts will also not be good.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 16 2010, 3:17 am by Heidi Klum.

Or just collectively ignore low-effort topics and let them filter out of view on their own?

Motion to have this pinned in Null.

Edit: Merge Null and SD, I'll have things un-spammed in a jiffy.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 16 2010, 3:20 am by Heather Graham.

I really wish people would just ignore them just like many of us do. So that they die and we never see them back again but there's people that post LOL!
and there's people that quote the LOL!
And when you least expect it you have this

But in all seriousness, If it bothers you, why do you read it?

I voted no

How about we keep a sticky thread called "SHARE YOUTUBE VIDEOS HERE"?

Same. Spam is nice, like this thread.

I'd have to agree. A funny youtube video / link does not really facilitate any sort of intelligent or interesting conversation, besides "LOLZ" and "OMG SO EPIC". That stuff can go into the shoutbox. And no, spam isn't nice. There are still standards in Null, null =/= spam, it is for discussion that does not fit into other sections. Discussion.

I third this motion, only because Id like to see people like Kame suffer.

So there's thing called being reasonable.. yes, I think the two most recent topics got somewhat out of hand. A single link does not constitute a topic. But I will not stoop to the level of creating a blanket policy about "time it makes to create a topic" and I will not support the merging of Null and Serious Discussion.

If a topic is so lacking in thought and discussion so as to be considered spam, I will deal with it, without any statutory minimum severity or other unreasonable restrictions. SEN has gotten ridiculous in this rut of going out on a "punish people uber-severely" spree. I end up scoffing at half the reports that end up in my inbox. It's no wonder nobody thinks this site is any fun anymore.

Seeing as there is little more to discuss as to this point (if you have issue with me, take it up in the right forum - Feedback),

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