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Instant examples Re: The Rules of Spam, Bitcointalk.org Edition
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on 22/03/2018, 21:11:20 UTC
Earlier, I vocally complained about spam by #1100145 “KevinVu-Relex” which directly violated this forum rule:

Ads are typically not allowed in posts (outside of the signature area) because they are annoying and off-topic. It is especially disallowed to put ads or signatures at the bottom of all of your posts. Except for traditional valedictions, which are tolerated but discouraged, signatures are for the signature area only.

Wherepon, I promptly received two living examples of Sharp’s Corollary:  “Spammers attempt to re-define ‘spamming’ as that which they do not do.”  Also, of Rules-Keeper Shaffer’s Refrain.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180322195227/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2075473.msg32918984#msg32918984
Spam? He was replying to questions, and linking their ANN at the end of his comments. I'd be hard pressed to call that spamming. Spamming would be him posting the same ad or link over and over, without provocation. I started reading your paragraph thinking I'd come away with a convincing argument, but I'm just disappointed I read it now.

I could see that but all of his responses were true and it wasn't like he was outright shilling the relex token so i dont see the problem to be honest. His responses excluding the link we're free of any shilling. So id just tell him to remove it, but i wouldnt say its spam...

Well, I suppose that mods do not follow the spammer (re)definition of “spam”.

https://bitcointalk.org/modlog.php
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