"First Post" Mod removal

Grimace · Nov 9, 2007

"FIRST POST!!!" and "OMG this is the first time in my life this has ever happened!" -- drives me (and others) nuts.

Can we have mods removed these posts when they see them?

I'm evil by nature, so if I were a Mod, I would even send the poster a message saying -- Do that again and your "first post" will be your "last post".

Blue Velvet · Nov 9, 2007

We habitually and unhesitatingly remove posts that say 'first' if we see them or if they're reported. Without question.

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

I have seen some but the mods are very quick at removing them. If you see one you can always use the report button to bring it to their attention, I know I have in the past.

And perhaps that is why you are not a mod.

Doctor Q · Nov 9, 2007

Sometimes we've had to remove more than one "first post" post from the same thread, as 2 or 3 people post for no other reason than making the initial comment on a news story.

In years past, if someone posted to be first but also made a potentially on-topic comment about the news, we'd carefully edit out the "first" sentence while leaving the other comment, but that gave them too much leeway and took extra moderator time. Now a post like that is removed as quickly as we can get to it, whether or not it makes another point as well.

MacRumors policy:

"First-post boast and your post is toast!"

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

Doctor Q said:
MacRumors policy:
"First-post boast and your post is toast!"

Nice saying, does this apply to comments in the edit.

For example the other day I saw a post that in the last edited by comments section someone was boasting about being first.

Found it, this thread first post, obviously.

thevofl said:
Last edited by thevofl : 11-07-2007 at 08:14 PM. Reason: Wow, I'm also the first post. Cool Beans Marsha

Mitthrawnuruodo · Nov 9, 2007

xUKHCx said:
Found it, this post

What post...?

*** whistles ***

Eidorian · Nov 9, 2007

I only make first posts in threads that are relevant to me. That and if I'm in Forum Spy when it hits.

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
What post...?

*** whistles ***

Quick question, how do you link one specific post, you know the type that says it is part of a thread from MacRumors.

And thevofl i'm sorry

, usually when i get posts deleted I do so behind the protection of the report post button

.

Mitthrawnuruodo · Nov 9, 2007

xUKHCx said:
Quick question, how do you link one specific post, you know the type that says it is part of a thread from MacRumors.

Find the post number, your post is number 4470894, then use post tags, like this: [post=4470894]your post[/post], which appears like this: your post and should link to your post.

Nermal · Nov 9, 2007

And you can see the post number by hovering over the Quote button and reading the link in the status bar.

siurpeeman · Nov 9, 2007

xUKHCx said:
Quick question, how do you link one specific post, you know the type that says it is part of a thread from MacRumors.

And thevofl i'm sorry, usually when i get posts deleted I do so behind the protection of the report post button.

click on the post number in the upper right you want linked and out will pop up a new window.

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

Why thank you all

siurpeeman i never knew that was a link, really doesn't look like one.

Mitthrawnuruodo · Nov 9, 2007

Nermal said:
And you can see the post number by hovering over the Quote button and reading the link in the status bar.

...or by hovering above the post report image or the post number (in the thread) that siurpeeman mentioned...

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
...or by hovering above the post report image or the post number (in the thread) that siurpeeman mentioned...

or the multi-quote button

Mitthrawnuruodo · Nov 9, 2007

xUKHCx said:
or the multi-quote button

...and the edit button, while we're at it...

megfilmworks · Nov 9, 2007

Interesting that throughout life firsts are celebrated, but not here?
I guess MacRumours really is the twilight zone.

xUKHCx · Nov 9, 2007

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
...and the edit button, while we're at it...

Love how off topic this thread, full of mods, has gotten.

siurpeeman · Nov 9, 2007

megfilmworks said:
Interesting that throughout life firsts are celebrated, but not here?
I guess MacRumours really is the twilight zone.

well if you think about it, the "first post" isn't really a first post; it's a first reply, which is celebrating the real first post. why spoil it with exclamations of "yay, first post!!! woOt!"

Doctor Q · Nov 9, 2007

xUKHCx said:
Love how off topic this thread, full of mods, has gotten.

I was tempted to close this thread after posting

Last post! Woot!

but we'll leave it open in case anyone else has an opinion or question about the "first post" policy.

fistful · Nov 9, 2007

found one from here.

Grimace · Nov 9, 2007

Thanks for the replies Mods/Gods. I guess I usually look at the new items within the first few posts (I check MR waaaaay to much!) so they haven't yet been deleted out.

squeeks · Nov 10, 2007

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
...and the edit button, while we're at it...

yeah but the edit button isnt there to all of us non-mods

xUKHCx · Nov 10, 2007

squeeks said:
yeah but the edit button isnt there to all of us non-mods

it is on your own posts though.

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