Count me in with the people who like like, and who like spamming.

I see forums in general as primarily a social thing. People come here to chat with fellow go players about whatever they want. Whether it's serious go discussion or "Hey look at my 100th post!", so what? There's room on the forum for both. And if I like to see people cheer for themselves in their 100th post, so I click the "like" button for that, then how is that doing anybody harm?

Let's just have everybody enjoy the forum in whatever way they choose and not worry about "oh, so-and-so's post count is high just because of his daily posts about his lunch" or whatever.

I was originally of a mindset very similar to xDragon. I even posted as such when the original discussions came up about the "purpose" of the like button. I'm still a little wishy-washy on that, but I have to admit I love using it for all kinds of posts. It really came down to the discussion and finding out the majority liked like in a different way I did. At that point, no reason to pout and get all mad about it. Now I accept it and enjoy.

Same with the off-topic forum and posts. Like I mentioned before, I came from a much more strict forum experience where things were enforced (and people would get banned). I would have liked to see that, but that was because it was what I was used to and really nothing more. Now I enjoy this forum for what it is. Like wms said, it's a social thing. I don't really know you guys all that well, but even the little time I've been participating here I've gotten to know people. Maybe even made some friends (if I may be so bold).

Also, xDragon, all the mentions of trolling really refer more to you calling out people specifically (at least that's the way I look at it). People can get really worked up about that. There was some pretty intense words on both sides of this and you got a lot of harsh words directed your direction. I think it got a little harsh there, especially when it was stacking all up. I really hope that you stick around and stay a part of this community. We have a great group of people here and it would be great to get to know you better. Maybe even improve our Go.

wms, brilliance. That's all I can say. --> viewtopic.php?f=8&t=795

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This is just spiraling from bad to terrible. We've heard the suggestions made by the OP, responded accordingly, and now things are just getting out of hand. I hope people will agree with me that locking the topic is the appropriate thing to do here.