Isn't SPAM wonderful (sarcasam)!!!! heh, fortunately at the board I'm at now that isn't a really big problem. My board is only a little over a year old and we also only have a bout a dozen fully regular members. But every now and again you just get that one who is a bit obsessive with post counts, ranks, karma rating, etc.... Hopefully that won't become an issue here but you never know... Here is part of the SPAM guideline that I have posted on my board for people who don't know what SPAM is:
SPAM Guide
SPAM: Stupid, pointless, annoying messages. SPAM can be in many formats:
1. The one-liner: "Yeah, I totally agree!"
2. Excess use of puncuation/smilies: "Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Say what? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?" or 
3. The irrelevant post: For instance, say the thread is about any given Movie, and you post with, "My cousin's sister's mother's brother's father's friend's aunt had a friend in said movie."
4. The double-post: Posting twice in a row, without good reason.
5. The double-topic: Posting a thread on something that already has a thread. For instance, the whole "favorite baby names" and "what would you name your kids".
6. The impatient post: For those of you who have ants in your pants, and can't wait for your requests to be finished, and so you decide to post in the design thread with "IS MY BANNER DONE YET?!?!? HOW LONG WILL IT BE?!?!"
7. The reviewless review: "I loved the movie!" - This is NOT a review, people.
8. The questionless questions: When you post in Meet the Staff forum- you need to post questions, NOT things like "Hey you're from Virginia like me, that's so cool!"
9. The caps lock posts: IT'S ACTUALLY CONSIDERED TO BE SHOUTING WHEN YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS, AND IT'S PRETTY RUDE TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE, DON'T YOU THINK?
10. The I-Know-I'm-Not-Supposed-To-Reply post: This happens especially in the polls for schemes and such - I even TELL you guys NOT to post in them, unless you chose "other" as an option, and therefore you have to reply. But a lot of times, people reply anyway.
1) Does "we share a brain" posts count as spam?
3) What does that make him to me? Absolutely NOTHING!
4) almost always accidental
9) ARCHIE! ARCHIE! HEY, ARCHIE! (sorry it made me think of Edith)
You forgot people like me who are between books, between classes, out of Tivo to watch and don't want to go to bed because their fiancee is sleeping already and snores something fierce so they have to be in a near coma before approaching bed.
I think it is cool, but it is not why I post here.
Besides, I'm thinking that the Merlin in the DF books is not necessarily 100% on the up-and-up, so I'm not sure if I'd want to be the Merlin.
Yeah, I think you need to leave that one as Site Administrator. If someone told me I resembled that guy I'd be grumpy.
