GuildWiki talk:No Spam Crews

IDK, a lot of legit contributors only come here to spam (and then get sucked in to helping out) RT | Talk  20:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No. Cress Arvein(Talk) 20:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Possibly surprsiingly, i am NOT a spammer, and this should be moved to userspace, because its actually pointless and not an issue. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 20:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Whether you are or not, it is still an issue. -- Peej 20:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, its not, I'm pretty sure what your doing atm is what is called "Trolling". and its not an issue. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 20:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * (EC)/agree, keep until an admin has looked and commented RT | Talk  20:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think this is a little harsh. We don't have the same, no-nonsense policy that Wikipedia is because, frankly, this wiki doesn't get nearly as much vandalism, and it's easy to spot too. And also, you can change the RC so that it doesn't show any User talk: prefixed edits--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 20:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think its bs from a troll who doesnt like mondays.. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 20:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

If you include just general talking in this you're out of your mind. If you take away the ability to talk freely you're murdering the half life this wiki still has. You might as well just ask wikia to shut it down. --Shadowcrest 20:51, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And warwick, calm down <font color="FF0099">RT </B>| <font color="Black">Talk</B>  20:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Idk why, but everyone is bitching today. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] <font face="vivaldi" size="4">Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 20:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Calm down, and take a chill pill (no, not drugggs... although if your offering) <font color="FF0099">RT </B>| <font color="Black">Talk</B>  21:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * bad RT bad! --<font face="vivaldi" size="3" color="#FF6699">Shadowcrest 21:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this becoming the new spammer's zone? --Organism X 21:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like it. Cress Arvein(Talk) 21:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Not amusing or funny. To continue my point, the original spam crew was made as a sort of gathering point for friends, and we occasionally spammed each others talk. As I note, the actual one-post-megaspamTM actually started when Firetock came into practise. This is actually somewhat stupid, since spamming can be repeated posting of each other. Hence if you do so, you will remove all ability to edit talk pages at all, as that could be seen as "spamming". And blame the guy who made it. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] <font face="vivaldi" size="4">Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 21:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, did you really have to create all those talk pages only to make the wiki look more lively? --Organism X 21:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I have Ereanor's girlfriend's picture saved to my PC for future usage. Zulu Inuoe 21:15, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup. Also, if this policy is enforced, this will be the one thing thats preventing me, shadow, mp47, RT.. Several others from leaving this wiki- The fact thats its not GWW. This will basically make this become GWW, since their policies prevent basically everything. What is this, a communist wiki? Do we really want it to become like GWW? Sure they have members, but so what? We have nice people (Or so it seemed), and our policies allow us to actually do things. Do we really want to become somthing we hate? and at zulu - LOLWUT? --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] <font face="vivaldi" size="4">Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 21:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I guess Zulu's spamming a little bit too. --Organism X 21:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm actually making a point here, and wheres the guy who started all of this? He's made no edits whatsoever since making this, probably hes run and hidden. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] <font face="vivaldi" size="4">Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 21:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Remember that one time we were talking about MP's girlfriend on somebody's userpage? Well Ereanor was trying to show off his unhappy girlfriend (Don't ask me why) and I managed to save a copy of the picture before he removed it from the wiki, I figure it'd be useful for future use, eh? Anyway, COMMY-WIKI = PHAIL! Zulu Inuoe 21:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Aha, i was in a communist alliance which was fail.. Also, lol. --[[Image:Warwick sig.JPG]] <font face="vivaldi" size="4">Warwick (Talk)/(Contr. ) 21:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Tbh, the random chat is fine. A small wiki doesn't need completely strict policies like wikipedia. Spam on a large scale is disruptive though, and we don't want to be encouraging it. Lord of all tyria 21:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * (RI) @Warw, I wouldn't leave if this rule was inforced <font color="FF0099">RT </B>| <font color="Black">Talk</B>  21:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Policy
The general concept behind this policy is for something to refer to so that true spammers can't hide behind the argument that there is no policy against it. I personally enjoy the discussion on the talk pages here which is why I still with this wiki over the official GWW. But it is still a game wiki, not a chat room, so discussion pages should more or less stay relevant and on topic. I have no problem with people doing basically whatever they want on user pages, so long as it isn't disruptive and follows the other policies here.

Since this "Spam Crew", while not maliciously created, both claims to have official wiki support (and as User:Lord of all tyria says, we don't want to actively encourage disruption), and has gone farther than spamming user pages (which might be addressed separately), I figure dealing with it is good as a "test" for how a policy to prevent spamming would work and for revising this into the type of policy we can all agree on.

I've seen more than one site lose relevance because the admins didn't take spamming seriously, and I don't want that happening here.

-- Peej 21:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem with this policy is that this is an encyclopedia about a Game, which is for Entertainment. Yes, we need structural rules in order to have order, that should be obvious, we shouldn't have rules preventing interaction between players, and that is what this most likely cause. It's relatively simple to correctly label somebody an arse (What this policy would do), but I honestly don't believe a policy can correspond to all situations, so we would have people incorrectly calling this into use. *In a nutshell: You cannot correctly define what spam is, but it is easily identifiable by the people involved, so they can be reprimanded for it without need for a policy. Zulu Inuoe 21:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)