So I recently noticed some threads specially in the beginners & help section. There are questions which are answered by different people yet they are all saying the same thing, they are just rephrasing the whole thing. Shouldn't that be considered spamming? Also can those be reported or not?
I recently got my accuracy down to 96% for reporting such stuff.
Tried reporting a lot of it these past few days, and I just made my reporting accuracy down to a good 82%
It is pretty subjective in the eyes of the reader and the moderators as well. There are cases when the op still can't catch the idea of what others have already posted and still needs some clarification on the matter.
True thats why I don't bother with those kind of posts, and my post accuracy is still 98%(closing on 99% now). To OP, a person may have different opinion on a question asked by someone, but many people may hold the same opinion about the same thing as well so in a way they are contributing to the discussion by stating their opinion on the subject which shows the collective opinion of the forum. AN example f this would be "How to earn in this forum" posts where most people will reply Signature campaign, just because they answered late doesn't mean their opinion isn't unique and shouldn't be seen as one.
Hope this answers your question, and yeah if you got confused while reading my answer, it happens sometimes I get too jumbled up if I write a big reply.
No, I understand whar you mean clearly.
I understand but doesn't that make the latter posts with the same thought on it redundant? I understand that they also want to contribute but then I guess atleast reading through the comments could also help, I mean if they think their suggestion isn't there yet then they could add it up not just repeat the same thought in a jumbled sentences.
It might b or might not as the question cannot be answered until you place a thread as an example .
however i havent came across such behavior in general,
check lauda's reply on spam posting
A important thing here would say it that it also doesn't really matter how users see it. It matters how the moderator who is judging the post sees it. There are people who are much softer and people who are stricter like me and Mitchell. I never understood why people complain about only a few of their posts being deleted.
Correct. It really depends on who is handling it. I rarely even mark reports as bad. That's the only soft side of me, I let someone else do it (especially when not sure).
Read this post by BadBear. I do delete such posts especially if they aren't really constructive. In my opion a person could combine everything in a single post and thus they should not be doing this.
People need to change their habits. I have a tendency to update my post and reply to people under me to avoid clutter.
I see. Well not to limit the peoples free speech but then IMO such redundant posts don't deserve to stay posted. Unless the OP stated that s/he needs clarificafion, that might need another rephrasing.