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?

[*mzkandi*]

^ What if there 3 to 5 people involved? The more involved in the spam convo the quicker it is that I tell them they need to head it over the conversation topic in forum games, because the ones with the most people involved are ones mostly to get out of control. Its hard to regulate that with numbers. I know when I read topic and I am reading everyone elses replies I dont want have to be interupted by someones convo they could easily redirect over to the forum games. I mean little off topic chit chatter is ok, I mean we all have done it at some point, but there is aim, yahoo, email, a chat room and a convo topic and yet we still should be lenient on people who want have convos in threads. I think not. I think a large portion of it takes a mod judgment to regulate whether something has a potential to get out of control.