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Jay520 on 04 July 2012
pezus said:
Mr Khan said:
Spam is fairly straightforward. A spam thread is one which inspires pointless discussion, where no-one is really presenting original thought or insight, talking for the sake of talking, filling space to just fill space. It is not a joke, an observation, news, a forum, or a debate.

Does small talk = spam in RL? I guess you could say that



lol there is no such thing as real life spam

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NintendoPie on 04 July 2012
Jay520 said:
pezus said:
Mr Khan said:
Spam is fairly straightforward. A spam thread is one which inspires pointless discussion, where no-one is really presenting original thought or insight, talking for the sake of talking, filling space to just fill space. It is not a joke, an observation, news, a forum, or a debate.

Does small talk = spam in RL? I guess you could say that


lol there is no such thing as real life spam

I think that is what he's trying to make a point of.



MontanaHatchet on 04 July 2012

Small talk IRL is something like "Hey, did you catch the Giants game last week?"

Not...

"The person above me is a doo doo head lulz."



 

 

NintendoPie on 04 July 2012

I'm surprised no one has answered my question. And that was one of my several pretty good posts!



Jay520 on 04 July 2012
NintendoPie said:

I think that is what he's trying to make a point of.



That wouldn't make much sense because Mr Kham didnt mention real life to begin with. Probably because real life trends are not equal to internet trends. As evidenced by the fact that real life has no spam. While the internet obviously does have spam.

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NintendoPie on 04 July 2012
Jay520 said:
NintendoPie said:

I think that is what he's trying to make a point of.


That wouldn't make much sense because Mr Khan didnt mention real life to begin with. Probably because real life trends are not equal to internet trends. As evidenced by the fact that real life has no spam. While the internet obviously does have spam.

I didn't understand what he was trying to get a much either. I was just prodding at the fact that that is what he is trying to say.



happydolphin on 04 July 2012
Jay520 said:
NintendoPie said:

I think that is what he's trying to make a point of.


That wouldn't make much sense because Mr Kham didnt mention real life to begin with. Probably because real life trends are not equal to internet trends. As evidenced by the fact that real life has no spam. While the internet obviously does have spam.

Dude, you're trying to hard. Real life has spam, people saying thist they don't need to say. It's just less doofus, but it's still spam.

"Say what you need to say", heard that line before?

Anyways, enough with you.

Pie:

That's a little harsh Trucks. You can post 10'000 times in a year and still have some great posts and discussion.

True that Pie. As long as those who post regularly spur discussion there should be no probs with it.



Jay520 on 04 July 2012
NintendoPie said:

I'm surprised no one has answered my question. And that was one of my several pretty good posts!



The length of a post doesn't determine if its spam. It's the substance of the post. Its okay to make spam posts sometimes. The problem is when you overwhelm the community with spam.

Here's a re-skinned example of spam from today: Entering a thread that titled "can you guys help me with XYZ?" and posting "I dont know or care anything about XYZ, but I hear its cool" or something like that.

Jay520 on 04 July 2012
pezus said:

Wrong. If we assume Small talk = Spam and small talk keeps the conversation going we can also assume spam keeps the conversation going OR to put it more bluntly: Spam is good for the community



Like I said, RL life conversations and Internet conversations are too different to compare. Whats ABC on the internet may be XYZ in real life. And Im not sure what you mean by spam keeping the conversation going. If you want to keep the conversation going, you dont have to spam

Jay520 on 04 July 2012
pezus said:

I explained it. It's all a formula. 

Small talk = Spam and Small talk = keeps the conversation going

Spam = keeps the conversation going

Q.E.D.


The thing with spam is it doesn't try to engage conversation. That's why its called spam. The moment a post tries to engage a discussion, its not spam.