Ok, so posting a movie in the movies forum with only a link and a one line description is trolling now? This is ridiculous.

The great irony is that some people post 100% spam eg:

http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/to … monkey-os/

And it does not get locked

There is no way this operating system exists. One programmer coding an operating system from the ground up that perfectly executes windows applications?

You mods are just head hunting and going after people like "soap4000" for whatever reason....

From my experience with flat earth websites, almost all of the people there realize it's silly and just like to joke about it.  They put together elaborate explanations for it for fun.  It's, like, a really unproductive hobby.  Perhaps you do just care enough about this site to give constructive criticism, but both of the 'arbitrarily' locked threads you've provided to back up your point were both started by someone apparently named after a spammer from BF some years ago, and most of his posts on this site haven't really contributed much to discussion.  We don't lock a thread unless it looks like it's going to be more of a headache than it's worth, which is why those two threads are the only ones we've locked in this forum in months.

edit: Ok, there's no conclusive proof that simpsonking is making that up, why not give him the benefit of a doubt?  I know it's easy to play devil's advocate and call it unjust when the mods use common sense in disfavoring someone named 'soap4000' who just registered, but calling simpsonking a liar because he claims to have made an OS (he never said from the ground up) is rude at best.

-Sméagol, who probably wouldn't have locked the flat earth thread but thinks the justification was sufficient

Why not give him the benefit of the doubt? Because he has provided no evidence and is claiming something highly implausible. Team efforts to do what he is talking about are eons away:

http://www.reactos.org

Microsoft spends billions to create its operating systems... how likely is it that someone on these forums will reverse engineer windows? Its called spam.... Even IF he did have an operating system (that wasn't built from the ground up) it is certainly not legal... and this is not the place for piracy...

If there really such a link from a reliable source that would not be trolling, while the topic of the link might be controversial I don't think there would be any controversy about discussing such a topic, we are all brickfilmers after all.  However if the post was just from some extremest fear mongering website why should we give them more traffic?  We are not thread locking robots, threads are locked on a case by case basis, if a thread looks like it will be entertaining, or might have good conversations they aren't going to be locked, but this is not a forum where you can spam your every whim.

Maybe you missed it, but in my post I defended the original poster:

So maybe just maybe, I've had the argument with others before and ran some statistics on it?  I know you aren't a member of every forum I visit.

It says he shall release it later, he's designing it of another OS, adn Linux. It's not spam.

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