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Ok, I'm not sure if this really is a 'case', but I think it has some possibilities because I did find a suspicious post by Liosan. FYI, this is post #265 since I don't think the edit time stamp will appear in the quoted version.
Liosan, on May 13 2009, 10:51 AM, said:
Wow. I expected a few pages from when I went to bed.
The thing that is most surprising to me is how many people like the spam. Shocked I guess would be more accurate. But I guess if the majority like a huge amount of spam, I wont complain about it anymore.
Edit: On a side note I was thinking that maybe we could setup some sort of Spam index. That way people who don't want to play in huge spam fests don't have too, and people who want too wont be harped on by those that don't like spam. Like maybe rate them low=10 spam posts per poster per twenty four hours, med=25, high=40, and then unlimited. The mod running the game could set it to their liking, and have the rating in the sign up thread. just an idea.
The thing that is most surprising to me is how many people like the spam. Shocked I guess would be more accurate. But I guess if the majority like a huge amount of spam, I wont complain about it anymore.
Edit: On a side note I was thinking that maybe we could setup some sort of Spam index. That way people who don't want to play in huge spam fests don't have too, and people who want too wont be harped on by those that don't like spam. Like maybe rate them low=10 spam posts per poster per twenty four hours, med=25, high=40, and then unlimited. The mod running the game could set it to their liking, and have the rating in the sign up thread. just an idea.
Liosan edits this post with a long edit (which is what caught my eye). The post was made at 10:51. The edit was made a half hour later, at 11:22. If you read the post without the edit, you get the image of a Liosan toning down his stance on spam, saying he won't complain anymore. The tone of the post changes back to 'tough on spam' however, once the edit is added.
The next post after Lio’s original is one by Silanah, who lends support for anti-spam at 11:13. Liosan adds a NEW POST at 11:21 to agree with Silanah, after which he goes BACK to edit the previous post to re-harden his stance against spam by suggesting the spam-system. There isn't any reason I can think of for Lio not to add this “spam system” as a new post. Why go back and edit the previous one?
Now, Liosan had a lot of posts before he was silenced on day 2. The thing is, he was combative about spam and spammers like D’riss and Rashan, but didn’t do much else. He was the only one not to have a vote laid down at the end of the day because his spammer vote Rashan was mod-killed.
My speculation based on looking at this is that he was openly combative against spam, which got his profile and post count up and out there early on. At the same time, taking a stance against spam is something that won’t be seen as scummy (except by the spammers maybe). He leaves and comes back later - apparently senses that his anti-spam routine isn’t seeing much support, so he softens his stance. The whole post edit thing strikes me as overthinking, like he’s speculating that his sudden softening of stance will be noticed. So after getting (or because of) encouragement from Sil he edits the post.
I'll admit it's a lot of speculation based on a post edit, but it's a post edit that makes some sense when interpreted as serving to hedge the original post. Otherwise why do it?
