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Spam = unwanted or intrusive
advertising on the internet.
all of the nonsensical posts, eg fg, hz, etc etc, all progress to University adds.......which are both unwanted and intrusive
In particular , none of them have screw all to do with Linux.
Quoting my status outside of context, making it sound as though I'm some how defending spammers. Offtopic/General belong in Offtopic/General; adverts and bots should be warned, banned and deleted. That's basic forum 101; a concept our moderators are well aquainted with.
Every night at like 11pm CDT this forum gets hammered by bots that post nonsensical adverts, links, and what all else.
My status within it's intended context (albeit intentionally vague) was in reference to users frequently asking about my forum signature and I happened to have obliged their inquiry by explaining the situation one day; I made 1-2 responses to the individual and apparently the post needed "cleaned up" and it was asked that we "not respond to spam posts". My posts and the posts related to the signature inquiry were the only ones removed for being "spam". So unless the inquiry about my signature was AI generated by some bot account; I'd just assumed it was basic natural human interaction.
I didn't complain beyond making that statement because conversation, linux or linux.org related (in this case, a linux.org forum signature) is not in fact spam; it's called human interaction. I chose to do nothing more than post that status because ot me it was 50/50.
The dude should have just DM'd me instead of posting inquiry in a thread, and I shouldn't have been lazy about it and should have DM'd instead of responding. But it was no more than 2 replies on my part addressing the inquiry and at the time I was a bit bothered that my answering an inquiry was considered spam when this place legitimately struggles with flood spammers rather frequently.
Spite my pointless emotional offenses KGII made the right move by deleting the inquiry about my signature because someone else later jumped on it and it would have completely hijacked the thread. I must have had my tampon twisted at the time because for whatever reason I took it slightly personal.
Either way, it's irrelevant now because I don't really care. The "Spam" that bothers me are the flood bot accounts that literally fill up the screen every night. The trolls that keep joining just to complain about linux, or the random "hey come check out this completely unrelated post" without being in general.
And in regard to this kind of spam, I give kudos to the moderator team because it always seems to get cleaned up relatively quickly. Bots show up, I take it as a sign to go to bed, I wake up and get to work and when I check in over coffee it's all cleaned up. That's a lot of work considering I think the only mods I know of for sure are Brickwizzard and Wizardfromoz; KGII tends to let the mods do their thing and only steps in when necessary.
They're firm but fair and I think I've only ever had one run in with the mods and it was shortly after I'd joined the forums and I was testing the waters to make sure this community wasn't just another purple haired off topic political gossip group like every tainted discord server I'd ever joined. This was legitimately my attempt at finding a real Linux "community" that didn't turn into a toxic cesspool.
Its because of this that I hold linux.org in high regard. The administrator and the moderators are firm but fair, and they work together to ensure that this forum stays on point. The Linux point.
Context is key.
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