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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on July 21, 2007, 11:51:48 am
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Bumper stick on the side of the car, no, ship I mean... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44269.0.html)
And they hurled themselves into the void of spam with no fear... (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,46641.0.html)
:D
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And they hurled themselves into the void of spam with no fear...
definitely. :D
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Oooooohh yea......
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I not so certain that 'long' threads neccesarily = classic. The ability to create 7 pages of rampant spam is not neccesarily an accomplishment I would like to be advertised about this community ;)
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But it was funny spam. Most fun I've ever had on HLP.
The other Classics were spam. Seriously. I'm thinking the admins/mods don't want to add some of these thing because they don't 'feel' classic simply because people like Thunder and Fantomeye aren't around. :(
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Both are excellent and hilarious spam, making them classics in my mind. I'd like if both were crowned "classic".
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Reading Mobius' post in And they hurled themselves into the void of spam with no fear... made me crack up laughing big time. :lol: , mostly because i'd just finished playing a few missions in FS1.
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"Keyboard control, power up photon spam cannons. Commence copy paste insertion.
Belisarius, this is the GVD Spamtik. You are ordered to power down and surrender.
Negative spamsudan ! The NTF is the ONLY legitimate authority in THIS thread!
Surrender or be blocked Belisarus. This is your final warning.
Your posts insult us both spamsudan, i will not give up my sig!
As you wish.
Keyboard control, click submit!"
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ya, truely the best time i ever had here :)
There is a reason a few people have it siggified :)
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I not so certain that 'long' threads neccesarily = classic. The ability to create 7 pages of rampant spam is not neccesarily an accomplishment I would like to be advertised about this community ;)
Agree with this.
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"Keyboard control, power up photon spam cannons. Commence copy paste insertion.
Belisarius, this is the GVD Spamtik. You are ordered to power down and surrender.
Negative spamsudan ! The NTF is the ONLY legitimate authority in THIS thread!
Surrender or be blocked Belisarus. This is your final warning.
Your posts insult us both spamsudan, i will not give up my sig!
As you wish.
Keyboard control, click submit!"
That should be mouse control click submit. :D
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I not so certain that 'long' threads neccesarily = classic. The ability to create 7 pages of rampant spam is not neccesarily an accomplishment I would like to be advertised about this community ;)
These threads are still better choices than some of the stuff currently in there.
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Like what?
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The one with the Vasudan AWACs being raped. :blah:
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The 360 threads.
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And they hurled themselves into the void of spam with no fear...
definitely. :D
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The one with the Vasudan AWACs being raped. :blah:
How is that possibly classic anyway?
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Like what?
The Russian laughter, moon landings, fake FS3 and torpedos threads are either redundant, not all that funny or simply links to something else on the internet that has no connection to HLP. :p
I can actually think of one or two others that might make decent candidates.
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The 'Poor Setekh' one loses something in the translation, there were pictures involved. Basically, it's all that was left of a very classic thread indeed.
As for the others, they were from General Discussion, and are general discussion, they don't stray too far off topic throughout, and were first of a kind, like the Torpedoes thread, it's not that they are 'great' in content, but they were 'unique'. The Fake FS3 one is classic because the person who edited the image of the XBox 360 list to include Freespace 3 was Goober5000, and it was caught up by the gaming press as serious. I'd say that is more than a little classic.
I'm not vehemently against the Bumper-sticker one, though I think it would need pruning, but certainly the void of Spam should remain in the pit.
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The original one ("Leaked list...") is excellent, but the fake FS3 one seems a bit pointless on top of that. They essentially cover the same incident. I guess you could make a case for it though. Still, the other three are nothing out of the ordinary.
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The original one ("Leaked list...") is excellent, but the fake FS3 one seems a bit pointless on top of that. I guess you could make a case for it though. Still, the other three are nothing out of the ordinary.
It might be worth considering merging those two, but it's up to admin really. :)
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i don't really see any problems that would arise in putting those threads into the classics
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None of the threads in the Classics section should be merged. There are two pairs of threads in there (Leaked list / FS3 and torpedoes / pheropods) that describe two sides of the same coin. Anyway, there isn't an upper limit on the number of threads we can put in there.
The main reason I'm against putting the spam and bumper sticker threads in there is because people were trying to turn those threads into "classics candidates" from the get-go. A thread is not classic just because a certain number of people say so, or because a few people try to steer it in that direction. A thread is classic based on what it is or isn't.
Furthermore, the threads in the Classics section have stood the test of time. None of them is less than a year old.
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so those threads were kept bumped for more then a year's time? :wtf:
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That's not what I meant. Look at the last posting date of each of the threads in the Classics section. Those dates are all more than a year old.
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Furthermore, the threads in the Classics section have stood the test of time.
Some of them are remembered by anyone only because they're in that section. The Russian laughter one is an example.
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That's not what I meant. Look at the last posting date of each of the threads in the Classics section. Those dates are all more than a year old.
so all we need to do now is necro the bumper sticker thread a year from now and it's in the classics.
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Some of them are remembered by anyone only because they're in that section. The Russian laughter one is an example.
No. The reason that's in there is because it gave birth to a meme. For several years afterwards, occasionally someone would post "xaxaxaxaxaxaxa!!" in response to a particularly silly post. :)
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You're not making a good argument. I've seen multiple, frequent, "Void of spam' and "Bumper sticker" refs.
We'll fight to the bloody end!! Viva la resistance!!!
Ready...Aim...FIRE!!
:snipe: :snipe: :snipe: :beamz: :beamz: :beamz: :headz: :headz: :headz:
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don't spam emoticons
'nuff said.
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don't spam emoticons
'nuff said.
Look who's talking. Anyway, I really think that these are classics in the making.
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That's the problem though, isn't it, particuarly the Spam thread is like an emoticon invasion.
Making a Spam thread a classic (one, I might add, that was actually made of Spam split off of another thread) means that people on this board will think 'oooh, it's ok to post Spam, in fact, it might even end up featured!'.
It's not simply a question of how many replies there are, but also how many different people were involved with the thread, yes, the Spam thread is very long, but how many different users were actually posting in it, and how many posts did they make per user?
Edit : Flicking through the Spam thread, if the posts by Snail, Jr2 and Mobius were edited out, the thread would be a fraction of it's current size.
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I, for one am not talking about the length of the thread, but the quality. Some of the spam is art
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Spam, like Graffiti is sometimes tolerated, but rarely advertised ;)
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And now this thread is being infested with spam. :p
Closed.