"Asher Heimermann, 18-Year-Old, Refuses To Take Down Twitter Profile Poking Fun At Mayor"

[tblue37]

69. Spamming does not have to be about trying to sell something. It is about

flooding a board with repeated posts or multiple similar posts. I have not read your other posts, so I don't know whether you have been spamming, but if this is a repost of a post that was hidden for violating TOS, then, yes, it absolutely would be spamming, even if you are not selling something.

Repetitious self-promoting posts would also be considered spamming. For example, I have a number of websites. If I constantly posted threads about my sites or replies in other threads in which instead of responding to the topic under discussion, I repeatedly told others to visit my websites, that would be spamming.

Another way of spamming would be to make the same comment repeatedly through a thread, or repeatedly from one thread to another, especially if the comment happened to be unrelated to the topics under discussion in the threads. For example, say you went from one thread to another and posted something irrelevant, like "Pug dogs are the greatest!" or something off the wall, like "Silly people smoke notebook paper!"--regardless of the topic under discussion. Or even if you just made such a post repeatedly in the same thread, that would still be spamming.

Basically, spamming is a form of littering. It clutters the landscape with "stuff" that gets in the way when other people are trying to enjoy the scenery--or the discussion--on a discussion board. Writing one thread about yourself to introduce yourself is fine, if there is something about you that would be of interest to others on the board. Doing it more than once would be spamming.

If you have been laboring under the misconception that you can do any of those things as long as you are not trying to sell something, then that is why you have been getting into trouble here.