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There has been a steadily increasing number of posts in some sections of the forums where a post consists of quoting another user's post, changing a word or two of it, and adding only "fixed your typo" or simply "fixed". Is there any possibility these sorts of posts could be moderated as the spam they are?

If this is acceptable, so be it, but it's it's the most annoying non-content ever and I wanted to see if this was on you guy's radar or just a personal pet peeve.

While they are annoying, I don't believe they are spam.

Ouze wrote:There has been a steadily increasing number of posts in some sections of the forums where a posts consists of quoting a user's post, changing a word or two of it, and adding only "fixed your typo", "fixed that for you", "FTFY" or simply "fixed". Is there any possibility these sorts of posts could be moderated as the spam they are?

FTFY.

I agree with pretre, I know myself and a lot of others use it as a joke. Quoting someone and humorously changing the content of their post and adding fixed is rather entertaining, in short bursts.

liquidjoshi wrote:I agree with Grakmar, I know myself and a lot of others use it as a joke. Quoting someone and humorously changing the content of their post and adding fixed is rather entertaining, in short bursts but only when Grakmar does it.

Fixed

In a jokey thread, it's fine.

In a News and Rumors thread, on-topic 40k thread, or similar, it should not be tolerated. It's sarcastic and dickish, two adjectives with which I'm very familiar.

kronk wrote:In any thread, it's fine.

Unless it is at my expense, in which case it should not be tolerated. Then it is sarcastic and dickish, two adjectives with which I'm very familiar.

FTFY!

Grakmar wrote:

liquidjoshi wrote:I agree with Grakmar, I know myself and a lot of others use it as a joke. Quoting someone and humorously changing the content of their post and adding fixed is rather entertaining, in short bursts but only when Grakmar does it.

Fixed

Dammit.

On a side note, but it was used in this thread so I'll just ask, how do you strikethrough words?

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danke

It can be used as spam, but not always. More often than not if it crops up in a serious thread the guy who did it has simply resorted to trolling.

Testify wrote:It can be used as spam, but not always. More often than not if it crops up in a serious thread the guy who did it has funny things to say.

FTFY.

liquidjoshi wrote:

Grakmar wrote:

liquidjoshi wrote:I agree with Grakmar, I know myself and a lot of others use it as a joke. Quoting someone and humorously changing the content of their post and adding fixed is rather entertaining, in short bursts but only when Grakmar does it.

Fixed

God, thenoobbomb is awsome.

Fixed for ye.

This is why we can't have nice things. And this thread makes my case for how dickish FTFY is.

kronk wrote:This is why we can't have nice things. And this thread makes my case for how awsome thenoobbomb is.

Fixed

Yeah, it can be really annoying.

When it's done cleverly I think it can be rather amusing.

I'm a sucker for cheap laughs, though.

kronk wrote:This is why we can't have nice things. And this thread makes my case for how dickish FTFY is.

Yes, very much so.

I don't mind if it's done tastefully, but if you're just twisting it about some 6th Ed rule you hate or Matt Ward, whatever, then it irks me.

And no, thenoobbomb, I'm not saying you're awesome.

blapblapblap wrote:I don't mind if it's done tastefully, but if you're just twisting it about some 6th Ed rule you hate or Matt Ward, whatever, then it irks me.

And yes, thenoobbomb, I'm saying you're awesome and totaly cool.

Well thanks!

thenoobbomb wrote:

blapblapblap wrote:I don't mind if it's done tastefully, but if you're just twisting it about some 6th Ed rule you hate or Matt Ward, whatever, then it irks me.

And yes, thenoobbomb, I'm saying you're awesome and totaly cool.

No, I'm really not. I think Liquidjoshi is great though, and totally deserves internet cookies.

Well, if you insist...

I think that's enough now. can we have a ceasefix?

Heh, TNB, you uncapitalized my name... Technically, it wasn't me who said that

OT but Blap, you know your banner links to the admin page of the Box right?

Da...

...Why?

That's quite enough. OT spam isn't tolerated in any forum; do it again, and Bad Things may result.

liquidjoshi wrote:I agree with pretre, I know myself and a lot of others use it as a joke. Quoting someone and humorously changing the content of their post and adding fixed is rather entertaining, in short bursts.

I find this incredibly rude, and I moderate it as such.

pretre wrote:While they are annoying, I don't believe they are spam.

Ouze wrote:There has been a steadily increasing number of posts in some sections of the forums where a posts consists of quoting a user's post, changing a word or two of it, and adding only "fixed your typo", "fixed that for you", "FTFY", fix'd or simply "fixed". Is there any possibility these sorts of posts could be moderated as the spam they are?

FTFY.

Fix'd. Simply adding the fact that it's used sometimes, not meaning to spam.