Locked Posts

[blueocto]

by the member "Graphic Design Links"... why dont you delete them instead of just locking them? Or are they supposed to be there for reference?

Sorry if this is in the wrong 'area'... just thought I'd ask lol

[brokendalek]

Reference only

[ianm]

it's the link up between the graphic design links site and the forum - if something is added on gdl then it posts here - i guess that they are there just for reference

[blueocto]

Ah I see, I was a little confused as they almost looked like random postings of someone of the same name hehe

[LeadMagnet]

I was going to make a post about those threads actually.
I find it kind of silly to have a new thread about everything that appears on graphic-design-links.
This is a forum, i.e. a place to discuss things. If i wanted an RSS reader, there are no shortages of readers available online that would hook into the feed nicely.
As it is now, these new locked threads just add clutter to an already long list of new threads whenever i hit the 'new posts' button.

I'm guessing this is done for the sake of backlinks?

I'd just like to throw in my vote for abolishing the new threads being created. OR, perhaps an option in the user profile to hide locked threads maybe?

[Toon]

The point is, as the other site populates the post will become less and less but like any new site it takes participation, some people will, some people won't. A community driven site usually separates the social people from the not so social people.

[LeadMagnet]

How will the posts become less and less?
Won't there be more posts?

[Toon]

No they've already reduced from when the site was started, remember it's only a week old so it still needs help populating links etc. I don't want to have to do what most of these do which is offer a prize for the person that makes the most links, that's not how community driven sites work, the idea is, you create a database where the good rises to the top and selfish spammers who have already signed up to the site and just added their own don't make it to the published links.
Because the posts here are made automatically I don't get to see them posted over there, but even I've found some that have interested me...

http://www.graphic-design-forum.com/...hats-word.html
http://www.graphic-design-forum.com/...think-act.html
http://www.graphic-design-forum.com/...sign-blog.html
http://www.graphic-design-forum.com/...ook-group.html

They're like alot of posts, if they don't interest you ignore them, but asking members to vote on what they feel is good or bad is only a way to control the quality on what should be a great database of design links and a place that should answer alot of people's questions that are asked here.

The guy that kept asking how to make a background I found a link there for some free vector brushes much like what he wanted and by running the search

Graphic Design Links / Search results for free vector brushes

There's also some other stuff I might not have read.