In theory if he made a strong enough argument then the rule would be changed. The administration is fair that way, if a strong argument is made for a change and such change is not going to open the forum up for any potential legal repercussions then changes will be made. The thing is that there is really no realistic argument to allow for referral spam
No, no it wouldn't, not on this matter which I explained to him in the previous thread. Referal links are not banned, as I explained in my other post (which I will quote below) referal links can be acceptable, however there are a few conditions, and 95% of the time, people don't follow those conditions, creating the misconception that referal links are banned in general. The OP is not fighting for the right to have referal links, the OP is fighting for the right to spam, which under no circumstance will be changed as a rule. There seems to be a huge amount of missing context, especially what the OP is "fighting" for, and how he has already been answered by more than myself.
Start here if you want the full context:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.msg10660811#msg10660811I have read the relevant portion of that thread.
I probably did a bad job of explaining what I was saying, and I am using a bad example, but that is not the point I was trying to make. My point was that if someone were to make a strong argument to modify "Rule A" and this change has the general support of the community then the administration will modify "Rule A".
The reason that referral spam will never be allowed is because there
is no valid argument to allow it.
One additional point I would make about why referral spam should not be allowed is that the forum has a policy against having duplicate threads discussing the same subject. Having multiple threads discussing the same thing makes it difficult to follow a conversation and only adds confusion.