The One Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 [B] Ok, I don't know how many of you have this problem but I usually have quite a bit of time after I finish an exam, because I have to wait for the exam time to be up. An extreme case of this was this year's end of year English Literature exam. The examination was 2.5 hours long and I had an hour left at the end after I had checked my work. But what does this have to do with the title, I hear you scream. Well during this time, I was thinking about SPAM. What it is, why it is, who does it and the effect it has on 'normal' members. Well, S.P.A.M, or Severely Pointless Annoying Messages, can kill a members reputation. The act of spamming produces a sort of [/B] [I]'I can't be bothered.'[/I][B] aura around spamming members. Thus when an originally spammy member posts something relatively intelligent or informative (rare!) it is ignored, or replied to with a lack of respect. Something similar happens when a respected member begins to spam, he/she/it is then either ignored, or replied to with a message that can loosely be translated into 'Shut up!' or something much ruder. For those of you who nothing about SPAM here are a couple of examples of posts consisting only of SPAM: "Nice." or "..." More examples can be seen in the CTD gif in James's signature. Although CTDs are not always directly linked with spam, they often appear together. Someone can infact post a complex and informative message with a CTD, however the post will not be recognised as such because of the member's disorder. Unlike someone with a SPAM disorder, usually only posts pointless garbage that isn't pertinent, often off topic. The reason that members begin to spam is boredom, or the aforementioned [/B][I]'I can't be bothered'[/I] [B]attitude. Boredom can produce the one or two word replies or the one short sentence. The 'attitude' can draw members into any number of CTDs (text code, l33t, and even KUJA SYNDROME agh!). SPAM on any message board is tacky, it gives visitors a bad impression. So, remember! Say 'NO!' to CTDs and SPAM, they will ruin your life. N.B There is the Verb (To Spam) and the noun (SPAM) [SIZE=2]THIS IS NOT SPAM.[/SIZE] It is an informative message to every member and visitor.[/B] [I]Any additional information, questions etc on SPAM or CTDs can be posted in this thread. Thank You.[/I] [B] If you spam in this thread, I will report you to a moderator.[/B] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 If [i]this[/i] isn't spam, then I don't know what is... We don't really need the low-down on what spam is. I think its pretty obvious, isn't it? "If you spam in this thread, I will report you to a moderator." wtf is with that... You're the biggest brown-noser I've ever seen- its unbelievable. And you're not even a mod yourself... don't you have anything better to do with your life than to whine and ***** at other members? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The One Posted June 15, 2002 Author Share Posted June 15, 2002 [B] Steph, I don't like you, and you don't like me, that is the only thing that is obvious. I truly don't want to know what you think on any of my threads, if this is unhelpful or annoying in anyway I ask the Mods and Admin decide, not you. I don't know why you have a problem with me, and I would prefer at this moment if you just never associated any of your posts with me ever again. And the reason I don't want people to Spam in this thread because I would consider it and insult. More of an insult that your existence.[/B] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstorture Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 [color=darkgreen][font=gothic]I remember hearing somewhere that posts that are purely argumentative are also spam. Probably from my long "friendship" with cloricus... where is he, by the way? he really should be here by now... I don't have anything against you, actually, but I never knew SPAM stood for something. Hell, you learn a new thing every day, and if this wasn't it, then it was that ANY salad dressing can be fixed with a liberal amount of mint sauce. Oh wait, that has nothing to do with the subject, does it? Sorry. Anyway, I read the announcement thread sticky whatever thing on how to rpg, and it had a section on spam. Or I read something about spam somewhere, and I didn't really feel it was enough information... and this is good. This fills it in. But nevertheless, it should be interesting how the mods deal with it...[/font][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidane11 Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 You must have been extremely bored to think of all that. I just got used to people that spam. If you people think that the good old days were spam free then you were wrong. There were topics where you just posted any word that you wanted to and they were always pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transtic Nerve Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 When the rules get put up, which will be VERY shortly, it will have the "all you need to knows" of SPAM in it, thus making this topic rather pointless, but seeing as how the rules aren't up, you really didn't know any better, so I can't blame you. Reagardless, I'm gonna close this. Everything we consider spam and everything that is spam to us will be posted in the rules when James or Adam gets around to putting them back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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