On the nature of spam ... by Bob Nelson
irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients
How does that apply to NewsTalkers? NT does not have "messages". NT has articles, seeds, and replies (often called "comments").
Does "spam" apply to articles? Could a member repeat the same article five times per day, every day... or would that be "spam"?
What if that member changed the text by one word each time? Two words? Three? How much variation is required to avoid the "spam" label?
What if a member chooses an Internet site -- Alternet , for example -- and posts the lead five articles... every day?
If a member did such a thing... what could anyone else do in reaction? Would it be legitimate to point out the spamming?
If a member pointed out the fact... in each of those five articles per day... would those replies be spam?
What if a member used five different phrases, one for each of the five daily "spam articles"? Ten different phrases?
Does the CoC make it OK to post spam articles... and then forbid others to point out the fact that the articles are spam?
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Hypothetically speaking, of course...
Seems pretty cut and dry they can choose five articles a day of their choice. It's not rocket science.
"cut and dried"
OK, then... I could post five articles every day, each of them reading: "This article is not spam!"... and nothing else.
Right?
Yes I think you can post all five butterfly articles in the same day.
I don't like to see the site flooded with red-meat seeds, regardless of the source or topic. That's why I believe that your seeds are detrimental.
The irony.
Ah, the old this site would be awesome if only there were no conservative articles seeded here and no conservatives to post comments sentiment again.
So-o-o-o-o... You are agreeing that if you seeded no more red-meat articles -- that is what I criticized -- there would be nothing at all? You agree that you seed nothing but red-meat?
I said "red-meat seeds, regardless of the source or topic". You interpreted that to be equivalent to "conservative articles".
Do you confirm, then, that in your mind all conservative articles are red-meat? That would explain why you do not understand the notion of "policy proposition".
Only a portion of my seeds are red meat. Some on the left consider my pro conservative, GOP, or Carson seeds or advocacy for Jefferson or pro free markets, trade, low tax rates seeds to be red meat too.
I didn't say "all". I said "most".
Meta = progressives getting together to complain about the presence of conservatives who are as prolific on News Talkers as they are.