what constitutes spam Options

[sadolakced acid]

we should note that that usually applies to purpose driven message boards, not community driven messageboards. However, even purpose driven message boards have sections for nonrelated subjects.


for instance, posting in an ipod message board about how your last date went is perfectly fine, as long as it's in the designated "off topic" or "lounge" area. Posting abotu it in a thread about trying to fix someone's ipod, however, is not tolerated.

similarily, posts in the design section, which is the purpose part of this site, generally cannot be nearly as offtopic as in the community portion.

the community driven forums are comparablly very open to what would be view as spam in the design section. frequently threads can veer off of the designated topic, and this is quite beneficial to the development of the community.

as the community portion of cB is about community, it would seem that spam should be a bit... more tolerated in those forums. some forums of community should be less open to it, however. namely the interests forums.

which leads us to the question: mayhaps we should define "spam" in our bylaws?

[ClaudelGFX]

uhm Why dont you use the "Word Censors" option from Admin CP, and put at every and each word you think its the most common used as spam with an emoticon, like with a little S in the middle, and they wont see it while they are posting the reply/message ,only after they posted the message, and knowing that's a spam they will edit their post so they wont get punished for that spam, plus the others wont see what he typed only the emoticon.
IMO its more easy and more simple like that, and there wont be needed any other Moderator to yell at him, hey you, thats a spam, got`it?:)