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Originally Posted by AdamSchwartz
So the line is "depends on their income"?
That's going to be pretty hard to enforce across the 100 or so forums here, not to mention however many mods who are left to interpret some imaginary line. It's much easier to just say no spam of any kind. I've seen both sides, been banned for spam and now ban spammers.
The line may be harsher than other forums and one of the reasons is the sheer size. Other forums can make a judgment call on a post every two weeks or so, but here it would have to be done many times a day.
I don't disagree with you but a mod is going to be less likely to delete something from Phil Ivey or Daniel Negreanu than Gary Wise. Ultimately that would be Mason's call and he probably would delete the link as a precedent thing. I used to be a prominent member at a site that I basically helped get off of the ground. I cut and pasted an article and while I thought I only did a certain part of it, the whole article went. There was a link in it obv and when they deleted my thread I asked what was up, they said we have a no tolerance for spam. Which is totally fine that they have that opinion but time and intention should count for something. Labeling someone as a spammer is annoying if you are the supposed offender. I think when it goes to the highest person there needs to be a judgement call and if someone had said to me "we know you wouldn't spam us but we have the policy in place for a reason" that would have been that. No harm no foul. But to take it that one step further once it gets to the top and two men are having a conversation about the intentions of content, that is where judgement should prevail.
Obviously this got a bit off topic but in some ways it is quite relevant.
It may not seem so from my posts but I understand that is tough to be the guy that enforces the standards. So while I doubt that "hated" is the correct word in this situation, someone needs to be the gatekeeper. If you are the gatekeeper you likely need thick skin. So I doubt Mason is bothered by the characterization.