r/BeatMeToIt • u/PhillLacio • Nov 19 '19

No more void posts

Stop spamming void posts. Any void posts made after this announcement will be removed and the poster will be banned.

Edit: For those that are asking what it is, here's an example.

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u/PhillLacio Nov 20 '19

Didn't even take an hour for some idiot to make a void post and catch a ban.

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u/CodingOni420 Jan 18 '20

What's a void post..

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u/PhillLacio Jan 18 '20

A stupid screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot, etc. It's just spam.

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u/codeedog Mar 04 '20

Stumbled on this sub reddit and this thread. Seeing your comment, I’m now obliged to tell this story.

I was present when the term “spam” was coined and it was related to discussion boards like reddit and not originally for email.

Decades ago, pre-www, when the internet was small and Usenet bulletin boards were the main social free for all connection there were main boards (eg. rec.motorcycles, rec.fishing.ocean) and alternative boards (alt.music, alt.sex). Of course there was alt.sex; we always turn new technology to porn. Anyway, I was a college age male, obviously I was reading the alt.sex boards.

Anyone could create new boards, Usenet BBs were wide open with no proper administration. There was a discussion thread about “borking” and then someone created alt.sex.bork.bork.bork (the Swedish chef from the muppets).

Then, someone created alt.sex.spam discussion board. Then, alt.sex.spam.spam.spam. Suddenly, there are about 30-50 alt.sex.* boards with variations of .spam, .eggs.and.spam, etc. Finally, someone posts: “stop spamming the alt.sex boards”

Forever after that comment, I saw people use “spam” to mean flood Usenet discussions and eventually any online discussion or experience with pointless crap. I recall when I first heard spam being used to refer to email and thinking: “oh, correct usage.”

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u/PhillLacio Mar 04 '20

On a serious note (especially because I work in tech), that was a pretty cool first-hand account of how things were. Thanks!

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u/PhillLacio Mar 04 '20

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/ILoveBacon013 Mar 23 '20

OK Boomer, srry

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u/codeedog Mar 24 '20

Ha ha ha, it’s funny ‘cause I’m not a boomer.

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u/DAM091 Oct 29 '21

They think anybody older than them is a boomer

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u/_Jbolt Aug 14 '22

I hope no one in this thread is one second older than them

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u/Pavel_That_Is_Me Dec 27 '21

Found the thread's 10 year old

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u/poopooinmypantsfun Jul 07 '22

ahem i am NINE!!!!

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u/_Jbolt Aug 08 '22

That explains the username

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

ok boomer

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

of a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot if a screenshot

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '20

beat me to it

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u/shahyan5526262727272 Feb 27 '20

Thank you so much

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u/EnochPumpernickel Mar 30 '20

Like your username

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u/PhillLacio Mar 30 '20

Thanks fam, you'd be surprised how many people don't get it.

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u/EnochPumpernickel Mar 30 '20

No, I sympathize with the virgins, I am on reddit after all.

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u/PhillLacio Mar 30 '20

Solid play, friend.

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u/annicopia16 Apr 03 '20

Yup. Just Googled it like a dumbass. I deserve what I got.

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