Your opinion on S.P.A.M

Spam, is it only fake meat or is there more to it?

S.P.A.M.,
Stupid Pointless Annoying Message(s)

To me, something that is stupid, annoying, pointless and a message, is spam.


As the years went by, things changed and people started using the word "spam" in various different ways.

Today, posting something, then replying to that very post is considered spamming too. The person who does that is referred to as either a spammer or a n00b
Why is that spam?

Editing
Well, as you know, there is this feature called edit and many people don't give a flying fuck about that button
It looks like this
I don't know that much about php but what I do know is that spamming like this, takes up valuable space on servers. I haven't seen anyone post like that here though, just giving my opinion and some info on the history of spam.
Not using edit isn't entirely spam though. Most of the time, the post is not pointless.
You might have forgotten to edit or you might want to reply to bump up a good thread. That isn't spam

Crossthreading
This isn't spam either but could and should be treated as spam.
Crossthreading means that when you or somebody posts a topic about, lets say, a cheater who killed you... You can talk in that thread/topic about it. But, sometimes people go to a different topic and talk about something that was or is being discussed in another topic. Imagine me talking about that cheater who killed me, EVERYWHERE.
Eventually, one topic could and will dominate the forum. This usually means that everyone gets frustrated (could be used as a mental tactic hehe) and leaves because you can't have a decent topic without somebody yelling, "oh and btw blahbla" about something that is discussed elsewhere.
It's hard too see this kind of spam, 99% of the time it is unintentionally. Most people don't even know it exists.

Pictures/smilyspam
Back in 2001, it was cool to use pictures like this one:

This trend raged on for a few years and I still do it =P
Often, people post only the picture with no text added to it. I don't consider that spam. What is spam however is posting the picture when it has nothing to do with the topic. Doesn't happen that much though, some guy used to put pics like that on one of those "free imagehost"s. They keep the picture on their server for 30 days then the space is cleared for something else, so eh watch out or the pic might change.

Smilies, lots of em, pure spam+crashes IE for some reason (hehe)

Posting a topic noone really needs or cares about like I am doing right now might be spam too =P


so whatcha think?

Post last edited by Don_Zardeone on 06.04.2005, 07:41 AM.

and now ?

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Post last edited by MarcBomber on 11.09.2005, 10:01 AM.

let him he just want to spam



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Gnädige Frau, ich fürchte es gibt Krieg. Mein Säbel juckt.
Only dead fish swim with the stream.

dunno

edit: yah

edit2: my sig owns your sig

EDIT3: omg i just noticed that in ops sig, that's DOA_Kasumi right?

EDIT4: thats dead or alive i mean

edit 5: edits rock

Post last edited by Don_Zardeone on 09.06.2004, 05:10 PM.

my sig?

DoA_Kasumi ?

???? what do u mean ????


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Gnädige Frau, ich fürchte es gibt Krieg. Mein Säbel juckt.
Only dead fish swim with the stream.

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See?

Got me a free x-box btw

eh whatever

Post last edited by Don_Zardeone on 09.06.2004, 07:09 PM.

I for one never spam
I dont like to do such a thing
I post only constructive things

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I almost forgot:
Reviving old topics with the intention to annoy other people.
That is considered spamming too

eh? andy never spams?? joke of the year or something?

hmm...is this spam by reviving an old topic then?
lol

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By reviving an old topic, I mean that you go way back in the forum to find old topics that were posted ages ago.
YOu then bump the now useless topic back to the top where it sits to annoy people.
Kind of like eh, example:

topic: Should Kisanth be banned?
Topic created: 4.5.2003

Post 1: blahblah
Post 2: blahblah
post 3: blah
post 4: Don is freaky
post 5: blah.

This topic would be on the last page or something, then, on 6.6.2004 a spammer replies to it with "yeah ban the f**"

1 year later, noone wil care about the topic anymore and replying to it will result in people flaming you

In our forum however, things get proned away pretty fast so it can't happen in such an extreme way.

Eh nvm I think you were joking there

Post last edited by Don_Zardeone on 09.06.2004, 08:12 PM.

well yeh...except the andy spamming thing

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lol and who the fuck* cares????

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Post last edited by MarcBomber on 11.09.2005, 10:01 AM.

please remove the k on fuck i dont know where the edit button is

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Post last edited by MarcBomber on 11.09.2005, 10:01 AM.

omg! n00p

here -->

why does everyone think i spam ??
The spamming channel was never designed to spam

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pls don't spam my topic
ty

discuss spam instead of spamming aye


hoho

i think spam is annoying and a waste of space
/hint

except for funny spam, which is cool. If it makes me laugh its not spam

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LOL !!!
HELLO, thats what i ve been trying to do, making my posts funny, guess they werent

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yah, j00 sux at teh funn0r

Dont mind spam.....but we seem to have a problem with....erm...how can i put it...ah GAY SPAM!!

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