Quote from: ANTIcentralized on August 06, 2014, 01:58:30 AM

You need to use common sense and good judgment when determining if something is spam. Posts like "+1" and similar posts are clearly spam unless there is other information in your post, such as why you like the post and/or why you agree.

Yes, obvious spam is obvious. Thats not the point here. The point is spam that is not as obvious and might not even be intendet to be spam, but just a certain way of posting.

Quote from: ANTIcentralized on August 06, 2014, 01:58:30 AM

If something you post has nothing to do with the conversation in the thread, nor anything to do with the original topic then your post is spam.

If you follow these two guidelines then you can avoid having the majority of possibilities of spam posts removed.

Ah yes thats another point that I had no mentioned. You have to stay on topic. So a discussion about a Chincilla in the middle of a thread would be off-topic. But again this is handled differently by different mods. E.g. the thread about the PD signature has weekly discussions about "how does acitivity work" or which is the highest paying sig campaign or which other campaign is legit etc. IMHO all of these are off-topic, because they are not specific for that campaign. Yet they do not get deleted. Maybe I should report them again and link here to make it clear why I think they should be removed. It makes no sense to discuss these topics in a thread that has almost 500 pages. Noone is ever going to read pages 100-400 again. But a specific thread in the meta section can be linked to again. Will be read again and the discusion cen be continued if needed.

Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2014, 11:35:05 PM

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There are a lot of issues in regards to that then. What about a staff member with a signature (not pointing fingers, just making an example)? He is then naturally excluded from the watch list and can post however and how much he wants to. I think that there need to be other criteria now (?).

Well the way I understand Staff (at least at first...) is they are barely more than a user. They still have to report and can only act against noobs (aka nuke them) if the case is clear (which -again- is debatable if thats even possible).

Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2014, 11:35:05 PM

Stunna even limited the number of posts to 400 per month.

Stunna had to act. If old members like DannyHamilton generally ignore those with a PrimeDice signature and only unignore individually those that have been quoted by someone else and appeared to be at least somewhat smart in a quote you have a problem in your campaign. IMHO limiting to 400 posts is not enough though. The number of participants has to be reduced. Maybe thats why MICRO [1] is publicly discussion postquality.

Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2014, 11:35:05 PM

Is posting 400 in 30 days (which is 13.33 a day) really spamming?

You cant just compare numbers. Its not possible to judge spam that way. Its the same with the number of words. Sometimes a simple "yes" can be very helpfull.

Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2014, 11:35:05 PM

I mean the posts vary and you can't really judge someone based on 5-10 posts, it's the posting habit that also counts (time between posts?). I was also told that I could be as easily banned without a signature if I were to make a lot of posts per month which is ridiculous.

I think whats missing here is: lot of low quality posts per month. At least thats what I have heard.

Quote from: LaudaM on August 05, 2014, 11:35:05 PM

I can remember a time when I was posting over 1k a month without any issues (even though I had much more time then and a signature). One has to watch his posting carefully these days and follow the guidelines as closely as one can.

You have been here way longer than I have, so suspect this is just a change in policy due to the fact that more people frequent the forum now. Plenty fresh Sr. Members now. There was a big wave of newbies that stayed half a year ago. I was one of them, but I am not the only one. And these waves kept on coming. Not all stay, but some. And of those, some post a lot. Some to "make moneyz", some because they just post a lot, some probably a mixture of both.

There are some threads you probably have seen as well, that just make you want to slap someone. This happens frequently in beginners & help as well as other subboards:

OP What is X?
#1 X is ... (short answer)
#2 X is, because. But you could also understand it like this or that. (long exausting answer)
#3(OP) wow thank you both, now I understand X
#4 X is... (redundant answer, sometimes even bad)
#5 X is...
#6 X is...

this gets worse when the thread hits page 2. You get the feeling that those answering #4,#5,#6 etc. did not read anything but the question. Sometimes they do not even answer the question but post something that is within the general vicinity of the area of the topic. Is that spam? To me it is, its the worst kind of spam. It bumbs a thread that is done and provides nothing new.

Quote from: PewDiePie on August 06, 2014, 05:48:36 AM

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spamm its about your post really low quality . maybe i guess you should post qualify :
1. good grammer
2. 2 or 3 line
stay on topic.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=699744.0