Suggestion to keep the Arena "Clean".

[Squidle]

I've noticed that such a huge ammount of replies in the Arena contests are pure spam.
"Nice one." "Good luck." "I might join this."
All pure SPAM.

People want to see WIPs! No stupid texts.

So here'z the point:

You're able to communicate to other people in a Contest, from the Arena, by placing WIPs in your reply. So you're forced to place WIPs if you wanna talk to someone. Talk or ask other things on VMs or PMs, but not in the contest itself.

So a good example:
"I join this, and here is my first wip [wip#1]" "Nice one, I'm making progress too! [wip#1337]".

This keeps the Arena clean.
Sure you can talk in the Submission Forum without any wips, it's even impossible to talk with WIPs attached to it, else you break the rules and work before the contest started. That's the point of the Submission Forum, to talk about how the contest should look like and if there are any improvements possible.

So, do you support this or not?

Do not leave any unserious posts please, this is a serious suggestion.

 

[Reaper2008]

It seems to be ok, I agree. Of course, I can always tell the WIP's from the spam, as it's longer, and describes more. Best thing you can do is name your self "Clean-Keeper of the Arena" and report all spam posts you see.

 

[Squidle]

Heh, I wasn't really plannin' to do such thing.
I have a normal (busy) life too, I don't have that time to check the contests every hour/day...
The admins would get a 'lil pissed about all those reports too, I guess.
Or someone should suddenly become the Arena Mod.
Then it's his task to keep it clean.

I would like to do this, but I guess many other users think the same about it.

 

[Pyritie]

No, this is stupid


People who aren't participating should be able to comment on other stuff

And I wouldn't call those sorts of replies spam because they are at least saying something. It's not like they're just replies of "ffdsafdsfsd" or something.

 

[Squidle]

Hmh, you gotta point there.
Maybe a Submission/WIP Thread and a Discussion Thread 'bout one contest?

 

[Pyritie]

No, it's best to keep things in one thread.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

I'M IN!

..Not.
A reply is a reply. A 'This, i might join' i a reply too. Though, if something was to be improved it's the public moral: Not saying 'i want to join' if you don't.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm all for a "show all posts with attachements button", but other than that this idea is ridiculous.

 

[Vampiro320]

Sometimes such basic things can be very necessary.