This isn't a insult. This is just a constructive feedback. One of the problems here in the forum is its very inconsistent. In the summer it feels like a nice fun community and everybody has a cup of tea and a chat. The admin is relaxed and everyones cool. Double posts don't really matter. Its just a forum. Its about fun and talking and stuff. Its not like a big controlled place.

While once LOST comes back its extremely controlled and spam is not tolerated a bit. The admins are the last thing from relaxed as they get on every other day and lock every thread that already has a thread for or has a discussion they don't really like. They are searching for rule breakers in places that none would dare to go too. The community is tottally up-tight and thus more commited members are less actice as "Newbies" are extremely active.

It feels like an enitre new forum. Some are used to this change although many are not.

Please admins if you feel insulted by this in anyway just delete it. I'm not looking for a death wish I just thought I'd give some constructive critism. Its just LOST Talk is a bit harder to deal with these days. So many locked threads it just looks a bit messy.

Treebeard, please take this as constructive critism (and I do understand you are only 13), but it seems you have the most trouble with others. (and the others have the most trouble with you). Maybe instead of blaming everyone else, you should take a look at how you can make this site better. Now I know your knee-jerk reaction is going to be to be cross with me, but if you will think about it, you have it within you to fix why everyone is frustrated with you all the time.

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It appears that beginning and/or end of seasons attract a lot of member as well as mail traffic, so closer monitoring and moderating should be easy to understand. That being said, I don't particularly recall admin being tolerant about spam on the forums at any time. Spam=clutter and jam so why would it be tolerated anyways?

Without having the repetitive threads closed and/or re-directed, we'd soon be looking at a rate of 3 threads of "who's oceanic 6?" per forum member. That's messier.

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it's just cause and effect. there's more to talk about during the season so there's more people talking. and more people talking requires a little bit of policing just to keep the place clean and welcoming for all. but i personally like to see comments from everyone...from newbies all the way up to the mods. what would we do without your opinionated posts, tree? i would personally miss them.

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I love my beautiful turnipheads...

Indeed, its a forum and forums ARE a controlled place. Just like outside the virtual environment there are rules and rules need to be enforced. Without it, it goes haywire. Double posts DO matter, even in a season break.

Eh? You're saying we're not consistent? Are you kidding me? Spam isnt tollerated in the summer either. We enforce the rules just the same during the season breaks as within the season. Sure, when LOST is on, theres more activity and more activity means more threads, more topics and more members. It needs more moderation.

There is no change.

It only looks messy if discussions about the same thing go on in different forums and different threads. Its easier to follow the discussion this way and keeps it nice and clean.

Look, we dont feel insulted at all, we created this place and worked real hard on it and we do like some constructive criticism (hence the feedback forum) but we wholeheartedly disagree with what your saying here. This is a forum that needs to be moderated. If you dont agree with that, go find a find a forum that doesnt. Although i dont think you'll find any.

If you do want to stay and dont want to run into trouble read the Forum Rules and Guidelines (LOSTTalk.net - Announcements in Forum : Feedback) carefully, work with it and try to losen up a little.

What's messy is all the duplicated threads. Locking them is just a way to make sure there aren't four or five conversations going nowhere on the same topic. If the threads with the same topic are all kept together, then everyone can read all of the posts on that topic and together we might have an interesting discussion. Treebeard, if you want to keep things from looking "a bit messy" keep the threads together. That just makes sense.

As far as spam, I don't remember spam ever being tolerated the entire time I've been here. Why on earth should it be tolerated? It's inappropriate and ruins the friendly vibe. In the summer it was very difficult to keep conversation going because hardly anyone was posting. No that the numbers are back up again, it only makes sense that the admins would be more serious about enforcing the rules.

I have to say that the "Locke is my favorite character!" "No, Ben is waaay better!" conversations frustrate me. I don't have a whole lot of time to get caught up on posts and am annoyed to find I've spent time reading these things.

And Treebeard, enough with the persecution complex already! "A death wish"???--so melodramatic. Noone hates you.

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I agree. Plus there's been many threads where people discuss their choice of this or that character in far more interesting ways than simply stating a personal like or dislike. The former seem to me to be more in character of a forum.

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