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I suppose it's a question of whether or not believes there's levels of quality to spam. If your typical MF Trek-sex/Big Brother/Wookie thread and your typical Badlands "this used to be about something else, but it's now about how much falconarg sux" thread both havethe same value as to your typical GOIWGJ}QRKQ_TJ thread, then the Badlands wouldn't serve any other purpose.
As I said, Dork, little pieces of copy and pasted poetry & stories are practically no different to OUPIOU80*&*). Paste them into a thread with 10k+ posts, and nobody this side of the end of a rainbow is interested in it.
If however, there IS a difference in the quality of spam, if a menu is NOT as good as a myth, then the Badlands gives people the choice of two-seperate non-troll forums to choose from. Since the interests and means of expression of both groups is distinct from one-another, I don't see that it would be redundant.
As far as the main bulk of each forum goes, the regular posting is not spam. Spam is the sort of crap dumped into your spam threads. Regular posting is regular posting.
I see no problem with asking for a separate forum to be set up and distinguished by excluding spam, but the way you've all gone about it is arse-about-face. You could have just asked, you know.
You have the freedom to be non-trolls on a troll forum without every random poster/admin dumping 10+ pages of PIEQGFAL:NFDZAVNLASLVF in your own chosen forum of non-trollishness. That's what I meant by "legitimate".
Could have picked another forum, you know. Say, one of the lesser used spam-free forums. Problem is, you want the best of both worlds. This forum already does that. Why does the board need two of them?
You'll note of course that the goal of the spamcapital is to form a sort of quarentine for all the SPAM/FLOOD nonsense so that the Badlands can function as an actual working sub-forum.
Why should it, when the forum has always allowed spam & flooding? You've even has missmanners tell you that. You still ain't listening, and that's the chick wot pays the bills.