After looking back, it appears that years ago, a small number of members bombarded the Jokes section with five, 10 jokes a day, hence the origin of this complaint thread.

There's hasn't been a "joke flood" in quite some time, and if a member felt one developed in the future, it's probably much more useful to ask help from an Admin or Moderator.

I do see a point made in this thread which holds true today – it's not a good idea to flood the Jokes section (or ANY section) with dozens of emoji-only responses or trite, three-word observations.

With that said, a priest, a rabbi and a minister are standing at the Pearly Gates...    :crazy2:

My beef is not with the jokes, per se but with the flood of them in a short space of time which completely distorts the Recent Post listing.

I would consider kissing whatever you are inviting me to but navy blue on a black background is not easy to read.

Seems someone is in need for glasses or optical surgey… It's completely legible...  ::)

I don't mind the jokes, however, I don't see why each one needs its own thread.

Agreed… this promotes the spam

In three different forums!!

I honestly and truly do miss "Paste what you copied last" it was usually a fun little something something.

I think I'm going to go post that groaner joke I read this morning.

20 pages of spam in one day by one poster is completely unacceptable. Completely screws the Recent Posts for the rest of us.

Are there no 'joke sites' that they can go and pester?

Another rule? I don't know but could we perhaps give them some seed bonus points to go away

Made me laugh harder than any of the jokes  :cheesy2:

Now off to the suggestion board…Please give me the ability to throw seed points at people to make them go away.

Oh, blessed Jebus on a hoverboard! What makes you think a man who has his hands on his dick is sad? When you handle your
magic wand, does that make You said?

nhalizegt also wrote: ...if my jokes make even one person smile or brings cheer to a bad day i'm very happy with with myself,
So one smile is better than all the unhappiness created by yr antisocial selfishness? What makes you think you are entitled to have,
unlike anyone else on this planet, everything you want and whenever you want it, no matter the price? The tragedy of the commons
is alive and well.

and then clicking "Show Unread Posts" https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=unread

The Show All Unread Posts link I gave earlier (shown above) was incorrect.

To remove 'Jokes Board' posts flooding the 'Show All Unread Posts' list only, do the following:

Go to:
https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=markasread?board=78.0
(this will mark all posts in the joke board as "Read")

then, go to:

https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0
(Show All Unread Posts)

@cannonmc:

I am talking about the 'Show Recent Posts' - https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=recent which is limited to 10 pages.

The Show Recent Posts link displays time-dependent information unaffected by the Read/Unread statuses of posts, so you're correct in saying that the filter I have proposed for users of the Show All Unread Posts link would not apply to use of the Show Recent Posts link.

I am talking about the 'Show Recent Posts' - https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=recent which is limited to 10 pages.

Normally this is more than adequate as I check new posts, usually, a couple of times a day. But if someone posts 10 pages of 'jokes' then that's all that shows on 'Recent Posts'. Then I have to look at the Forum page to see which forums have had posts added since my last visit. Any that have, I then have to check to see if they have had more than the one post that shows on the main Forum page.

Just to emphasise I am not talking Unread Posts - I am talking Recent Posts

it soon reaches its limit of 10 pages and the only way I know to check new posts then is to go through the forum list

I didn't know the forum limited the display of unread messages to a limit of 10 pages only.  :crazy2:

If administration is willing to accept having a forum that remains succeptible to frequent flooding then they should also accept the consequences of that flooding (e.g., the allowance for more-than 10-pages of accumulated unread forum posts).

Under normal circumstances I suppose 10 would be sufficient. But the conditions held at the time the limits went into effect are presently no longer met. This requires _new r_ules allowing for a higher page count.

In any event, you can clear the unread messages from just the joke board itself before you use "Show Unread Posts" to access newer posts from the entire forum, without the flooded content. That link is:

https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=markasread?board=78.0

By marking all content from the joke board as read, and then clicking "Show Unread Posts" https://community.gaytor.rent/index.php?action=unread this will bring up a list of all unread posts from every board except the joke board. With most nuisance-content originating from within the joke board, this measure effectively dams the flood.

But my main point was not so much ignoring the messages but that with a flood like that taking up pages of 'recent posts' it soon reaches its limit of 10 pages and the only way I know to check new posts then is to go through the forum list to see when each forum had its last post