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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.
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.
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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.
First I'd like to thank you for sharing that link, I have not seen that thread/have completely missed it. I'm rated: OK But bit to much IMG posts that needs to be deducted. Looks like he caught a period of me posting in a few threads with images? I have like 2 images in the last 100 posts (check posting history) and they aren't even 'only posts with images'. Why would they need to be deducted in that case?
Well staff is not that much higher than an user here, but I doubt that a staff member would get on the 'signature bans' watch list when that member is probably among the ones that oversee that list. Isn't that so?
Well I'm not trying to compare just numbers, but judging from the previous limitations (what was it 2 or 3 thousand posts?) the reduction is heavy. The first signature deal that I was with was TF's Inputs.io I believe. I was doing way more than 1k posts and did not watch my posting that much (well I was still new). You're definitely right about those threads, there is even a thread about someones B-Day which has passed long ago yet people keep congratulating him. Shouldn't those posts be marked and removed? I mean if the thread is from June (example, I can't find it right now) and someone posts 'congratulations' in August, he clearly has spend less than a few seconds reading the thread. These kinds of posts do annoy me a bit and I try to avoid them.
Well judging from his username and the fact that he is new, I'd say that he is trolling. A quality posts is not judged per it's length like you said, nor is 2-3 lines sometimes enough (while in other cases a single line would do just fine).