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Forum option - Filtering short brainfart-comments
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xCabalx
The Wallstreet Bulls Corporation
#1 - 2012-05-02 18:29:44 UTC  |  Edited by: xCabalx
Hello folks,

in EVE Online and here in the forum, I encountered many "brainfart-comments" of hardcore guys, wannabe mad pirates, who try to look tough in an emberassing way. Most of the post here, don't make any sense and rather make threads worthless. I don't know what kind of disease this is, but I have a suggestion:

Filtering out posts with less than X words to avoid waisting too much time on reading the brainfart-comments created by messed up brains and to prevent getting an eye-cancer, which really don't give any value-input to the discussion. In almost all cases, only the bigger posts are worth the time reading because, more or less... the one posting big ones really tries to get that discussion going.

In rl I don't even listen to people who just shout out an opinion without even saying WHY he has this opinion. This could improve this forum and give curious and serious people about a specific subject more quality posts to read instead of skipping x pages full of stupid emptyness.

Greetings,
Cabal
Astroniomix
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-02 18:41:07 UTC
No
Velicitia
XS Tech
#3 - 2012-05-02 18:50:12 UTC
Astroniomix wrote:
No


in case that's not enough words ...

No. This is a terrible idea.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#4 - 2012-05-02 18:57:51 UTC
Agreeing with the previous two posters. Putting a minimum number of words for posts wouldn't cause better posts to be written, it'd cause more wordy posts to be written. Often it only takes a few words to completely pop the bubble of the OP (or ideas are so fail/repeated they're just not worth the time it would take to type up a long and detailed response to them.
Astroniomix
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-05-02 19:07:17 UTC
Any idea to auto-remove troll posts and unconstructive responses is either going to
1: not work at all
2: be abused to hell
3: censor everything
xCabalx
The Wallstreet Bulls Corporation
#6 - 2012-05-02 19:23:37 UTC
The internet suffers this problem since the beginning. Isn't there an option of how to keep the amount of these kind of posts smaller?
You guys made a good point regarding abusing etc. and regarding threads which dont make any sense and which can be closed after one little text. People won't change and the amount of such posts get bigger and bigger. Not the worst problem, but very annoying because of the great amount of trolls (<= I hate that word...).