Quote from: Csmiami on Today at 07:44:07 PM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 07:02:50 PM

I might expand on what DdmrDdmr, and ask what is the root cause of your concern? Are you concerned that your local section is being cluttered by unintelligible posts? Or are you upset that someone is taking work from someone that might otherwise be available to a native speaker of your language?

Being fair to everyone, it may have started as a rant out of seeing that in 6 months not regularly posting and reading only a few nothings nothing has really changed. Having worked as a translator may make me a little bit biased; but seeing the same few users posting all the garbage, seeing that literally no effort has been put into said garbage and that nothing can or is being done to said garbage... It's a bit infuriating. It was not a specific concern about this particular local board; since I know this is an extended practice over the forum.

I don't doubt that, not one bit. I think a solution in one board can probably be implemented in all the other local boards.

Quote from: Csmiami on Today at 07:44:07 PM

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 07:02:50 PM

One person you mentioned in your other thread is pedrillo0. This person's most recent post is in a thread that he created. The thread has a total of 68 posts, all of which are written by him. The issue of using automated translation tools aside, making this many consecutive posts is obviously not acceptable. This person can write the OP, and any reserved posts, he can subsequently bump his thread by giving an update/news, but if no one posts in his thread after he writes the update/news, if he wants to post in his thread again, he needs to remove his previous post with an update/news, and if desired, he can consolidate the information into a single new post.

I've actually had talks in the past with a few mods about this (not focusing on this particular user) and it's entirely up to the mod. A thread made of 10+ pages of just updates CAN be considered spam, but since every post is an update and is usually separated by 24+ hours, it does not count as a "bump" or multipost. Fine print sucks.

I disagree with that, pretty strongly actually.

An update is the same as a bump, and the same rules apply to updates as apply to bumps. There is an argument that an update doesn't need to be removed when writing another update, however, it should be removed if no one has posted since the update. If the old update is not removed, the thread gets unnecessarily cluttered. The forum is ultimately a discussion forum, not a place to talk to yourself.

I don't see the point in having a thread with 60 replies from one person. Having that many replies creates the illusion that there is a lot of interest in the thread, and will cause people to read the thread, only to find that there is literally no actual discussion going on. If I was browsing the forum looking for an interesting thread to read, I would be annoyed to find that thread.

As you said, nothing against pedrillo0 personally, he is just one example of many people that are acting similarly.