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To: lorne who wrote (20014)1/6/2004 1:41:11 PM
From: SI Bob  Read Replies (1) of 32938
 
So exactly how would one go about informing others on other threads with whom I have on going discussion about a topic or news item I have come across.

One doesn't. One picks the (at most) two most relevant threads for it.

It's kind of the reverse of what you or someone else asked earlier about whether someone only bookmarks one thread. The people you want to "reach" aren't typically segregated into separate threads. I'd bet that well over half of the people who have a bookmark on any one of those 9 threads you posted to *also* have a bookmark on at least 4 of the others. How do you think the spam aspect of the post got noticed? Someone (likely many people) saw it multiple times because they read many of those threads.

As I have said my intention was not to spam but to inform others with whom I chatted with of a news item. Is this not allowed?

If it involves posting the same or nearly the same thing 9 times, no it isn't.

Does this also apply to personal opinions as this is done always by many on SI?

If the opinions are identically or nearly identically worded, it's considered spam.

That doesn't mean, however, that if someone's post always have the same underlying theme ("I hate republicans", "I hate democrats", or whatever) that they're considered spam.

Frequency and duplication are the key elements.

Does arbitrary mean it is not a stead fast rule? but is customary?

Neither and both.

"Arbitrary" means it's a number that was plucked out of the air ages ago by someone (me or a previous administrator) but we've never made a real specific entry regarding it in the Terms of Use. Mainly (IMO) because doing so would result in people imposing impossibly-difficult "requirements" on us for defining it, then also requiring us to do the same for each and every rule contained in the TofU. Things like "Spam is defined as posting more than two messages in a 24-hour period in which greater than 80% of the content of the messages is the same."

Easier to deal with it the way we already do. A general understanding of what we consider spam, and clarification for those who broke the rule innocently enough (such as yourself) and suspension or termination for those with more evil intent, such as to tout a stock to every thread they can post to before they're stopped.
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