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One of my forum threads just got locked because "it was spamming".
Now (hold your horses, this is not spamming, I'm just giving the background to what the thread was about), I created a thread in the Online Events / Racing Series about this new racing series I'm creating (you'll find it here). This thread is general information about the series, and the second post has a section for teams looking for drivers, and drivers looking for teams.
Now, as you might see if you look at the thread, this series is about getting teams to join a series and race for a team championship title. It is an online racing series so it clearly belongs in the Racing Series forum.
A big aspect of the racing series, however, is the formation and recruitment of teams. What section of the forum belongs to teams and clubs? It's the Online Events / Clubs & Leagues, is it not?
So what I did was to create a new thread in that section, specifically about recruiting teams and drivers for teams to the series. You find that thread here.
Now, just a few minutes after the creation of the thread, a super moderator locked it, by claiming that it was spamming.
I claim, that this second thread was not spamming at all, but rather a recruitment thread posted in the appropriate section of the GTPlanet forum. The two threads are clearly different. Yes both are recruiting, but one is a general information thread targeted at people who might be looking for an online series to join (in the Racing Series section) and the other is, to be blunt, a recruitment ad targeted at already existing teams and people who are specifically looking for teams to join. Those are two different target audiences, and two very different threads.
Now, if I'm not the only one here who has studied information science at university level, can someone tell me how people in the Clubs & Leagues section are gonna find this information if I am not allowed to recruit by making a thread there? Am I supposed to spam every already existing thread in that section about the new series? Cause that looks an awful lot like spamming to me, and even hijacking other people's threads.
A lot of information in life spans over several different categories. In modern information science theory, those phenomenons are given entries in each and every category that it belongs to, to make the information searchable and retrievable by the people who don't know the exact location of the information they are looking for.
If the policy of GTPlanet is to not allow that kind of cross-categorization, then what is the basis of that policy? What information science theories promotes that kind of policy, other than "books are meant to be kept in strict order and should preferably not be read at all, because if they are they might be destroyed"?
There is nothing in the forum FAQ that implies that the kind of threads I created is considered to be spam. This is unique event, with the first thread being a general information thread in the Racing Series section, and the other thread being a recruitment thread specifically aimed at already existing team structures, and people looking to join a team.
Now, this is not meant as bashing at the moderators, on the contrary I appreciate the very quick reply I got from the moderator where he argued his case and answered my questions. This is all about the policy, which, if it indeed is the case that this is how it's supposed to be, I think should change.
What do you think?
Now (hold your horses, this is not spamming, I'm just giving the background to what the thread was about), I created a thread in the Online Events / Racing Series about this new racing series I'm creating (you'll find it here). This thread is general information about the series, and the second post has a section for teams looking for drivers, and drivers looking for teams.
Now, as you might see if you look at the thread, this series is about getting teams to join a series and race for a team championship title. It is an online racing series so it clearly belongs in the Racing Series forum.
A big aspect of the racing series, however, is the formation and recruitment of teams. What section of the forum belongs to teams and clubs? It's the Online Events / Clubs & Leagues, is it not?
So what I did was to create a new thread in that section, specifically about recruiting teams and drivers for teams to the series. You find that thread here.
Now, just a few minutes after the creation of the thread, a super moderator locked it, by claiming that it was spamming.
I claim, that this second thread was not spamming at all, but rather a recruitment thread posted in the appropriate section of the GTPlanet forum. The two threads are clearly different. Yes both are recruiting, but one is a general information thread targeted at people who might be looking for an online series to join (in the Racing Series section) and the other is, to be blunt, a recruitment ad targeted at already existing teams and people who are specifically looking for teams to join. Those are two different target audiences, and two very different threads.
Now, if I'm not the only one here who has studied information science at university level, can someone tell me how people in the Clubs & Leagues section are gonna find this information if I am not allowed to recruit by making a thread there? Am I supposed to spam every already existing thread in that section about the new series? Cause that looks an awful lot like spamming to me, and even hijacking other people's threads.
A lot of information in life spans over several different categories. In modern information science theory, those phenomenons are given entries in each and every category that it belongs to, to make the information searchable and retrievable by the people who don't know the exact location of the information they are looking for.
If the policy of GTPlanet is to not allow that kind of cross-categorization, then what is the basis of that policy? What information science theories promotes that kind of policy, other than "books are meant to be kept in strict order and should preferably not be read at all, because if they are they might be destroyed"?
There is nothing in the forum FAQ that implies that the kind of threads I created is considered to be spam. This is unique event, with the first thread being a general information thread in the Racing Series section, and the other thread being a recruitment thread specifically aimed at already existing team structures, and people looking to join a team.
Now, this is not meant as bashing at the moderators, on the contrary I appreciate the very quick reply I got from the moderator where he argued his case and answered my questions. This is all about the policy, which, if it indeed is the case that this is how it's supposed to be, I think should change.
What do you think?
