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?

[Just_Dream]

Just a side note, if ANYONE notices spam in which a member used to get their post counts up, PM Mona or me and we can remove some posts, if anyone feels it unjust that a member should get away with so a great number of posts due to so much spam. The actual evidence won't be removed, rather, the amount of spam posts can be deducted from their total post number. Do you get what I mean?

Just thought I'd add that.