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Originally Posted by kq76
I'm pretty sure I gave ample time for this to be hashed out. Cooleyvol and Treches spoke out. If others had a problem with it, I wish they would have said something earlier. Still, there's time to discuss it.
Here, help me out. Say you're trying to get people to include this list in their ads. Say a lot do, but a lot don't. So you delete the threads that don't include it but there's no warning given out. But, it keeps happening over and over again and some people won't listen (like people posting OOTP6 ads on the OOTP2006 board). What should you do, just keep wasting your time deleting ads or give out an expiring warning so that people actually do it? You could say forget deleting the threads altogether, but some of us firmly believe this helps people looking for leagues. Given that you want to get people to do this, what would you do?
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You leave all the threads, don't delete any, don't hand out warnings. People should be able to post however they want to advertise their league, and it won't help people find the league they want if half the posts are deleted.
BUT, have a sticky thread, in which each league can have one post, using the template you set out. Its an quick, easy reference guide for people seeking a league, can be constantly updated by commishs etc editing their own posts, and can contain links to the relevent threads in the rest of the forum. And from that delete any posts that don't follow the template.
Seriously, I don't play in any online leagues at the mo, but I cannot think of a worse idea than deleting threads and warning people for not following a template post when all they are trying to do is bring people together to play this game. Loads of people have been posting recently that these forums are dead, and over-policing, thread deletion and heavy-handed warnings are a sure-fire way to kill a thriving community.
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