Due to some oversights on our part during our condensing of our policy guidelines, we've had to go back and make some revisions to our spamming policy.
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Originally Posted by Dec 2012 Version
Spamming - "Spam" refers to posting identical, irrelevant, hard to read posts that make it difficult to comprehend what a user is attempting to state. Mass PMing people you don't know or who haven't invited you to PM them, posting for the sole purpose of boosting your post count, excessive bumping of threads, one or two letter replies (i.e. ok, LOL, Yes, agreed, nods), caps/lowercase variances (I wAnT A sEcReT fRiEnD), poor color choices for their text vs. forum's skin color (such as white text on a yellow background), excessive punctuation (yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) or letter repetition in a word (Wooooooooooooooot!), and excessive use of smileys as a response are irritating and often hard to read. An OP is allowed one bump per twenty-four (24) hours after the last post was created in their thread!
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We've tried to make it easier to read by expanding it with bullet points, added some things we forgot, and try to include exceptions for a better understanding of the policy.
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Originally Posted by July 2013 Version
Spamming - "Spam" refers to posting identical, irrelevant, or hard-to-read posts that make it difficult to comprehend what a user is attempting to say. These types of posts are irritating and often hard to read. These will be removed at the discretion of the mod staff:
- Mass PMing people you do not know or who have not invited you to PM them
- Posting for the sole purpose of boosting your post count
- Certain areas of the site have their post count shut off for this reason.
- One or two letter replies (i.e. ok, LOL, Yes, agreed, nods)
- A post requires a minimum of 10 characters
- Caps/Lowercase variances (I wAnT A sEcReT fRiEnD)
- Poor color choices for YOUR text versus the forum's skin color (such as white text on a yellow background)
- Excessive punctuation (yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- Letter repetition in a word (Wooooooooooooooot!)
- Excessive use of smileys
- Exceptionally large images placed within posts which may cause some browsers to scroll
- Instead of using [img][/img] try using [shot][/shot] bbcodes.
- Multiple postings
- Authors are allowed to put chapters into different posts within the Story and RPG forums only.
- Excessive bumping of threads
- An ORIGINAL poster is allowed one bump per twenty-four (24) hours after the last post was created in their thread!
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