The Marathon

n0vad3m0n

Over the past two months, Klebian and I were forced to lock many popular marathon threads because they disintegrated into spam. Here are some general rules you should follow when posting/creating in non-Mafia marathon threads.

1. Read the rules. Without reading the rules in the original post, any new user can change the rules ever so slightly with his/her posts. There was actually one incidence where a marathon changed into another [locked] because the original rules weren't followed.

2. Don't change the rules. Obviously, don't change the rules of the original post. Changing discredits the original rules and you're better off making a new thread.

3. Don't revive old threads. If you want to continue a pre-existing game, just make a new thread, saying it's a revival in the subject description, as well as a link of the original thread and credit to the original poster in the post.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:06 pm

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AstroPhys

Finally, now spammers can not say they were not spamming. Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:09 pm

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1=2

I just realized that most of the marathons were/are pointless...

**Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:25 pm

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Hmm... apparently quoting Disney movies gets me muted on FTW. Razz

n0vad3m0n

**Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:30 pm

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SBS1

Hah, most of the forums by me get locked because i simply don't post anything good.I am offtrack i guess.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:38 am

myyellowducky82

then post somethin useful once in a while at least =]

**Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:25 pm

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splatyango

ummm.. same here i guess

**Posted:** Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:07 am

ternary0210

Same here, no spam
Guide:
If a post is spam, rate it 1
If a post is poor, rate it 2
If a post is average or good, rate it 3-4
If a post is really good, sticking to the topic, rate it 5-6.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:52 am

rituraj007

and how to decide wat is good???

**Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:14 am

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:32 am

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~[柯俊榕] Henry Ko I don't care

1=2

To build on the last post, this was turning into the Hurt & Heal Factory, to coin the phrase "spam and fun factory" used yesteryear.

And rating is even less popular than AoPSWiki. I don't think it even works in G&FF... And of course there are rating hounds, which suck your rating away. I think I've been a victim quite a few times.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:44 pm

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Hmm... apparently quoting Disney movies gets me muted on FTW. Razz

meewhee009

Yay rules! Smile

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:57 pm

monkeygirl13

i think that if a thread has to be locked or deleted than whoever was the reason it had to be locked or deleted should be suspended for a period of time that way if a thread deleted the reason it deleted will be less likely to spam again

**Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:30 pm