Allakhazam Forum Rules wrote:
VII. Spam
A. Forum spam
Forum spam is defined as the act of repeatedly posting in a single thread, multiple new identical thread topics in a single forum, or multiple identical topics in different forums for the purposes of:
1. Disrupting the site
2. Unfairly padding ones post count
3. Promoting a single idea across multiple forums where one thread will suffice. (i.e. posting the same thread in every server forum, etc.) Most spamming incidents will result in an initial temporary mute of the account while the extent and content of spam are investigated. Allowances are made for the occasional accidental multipost, server glitches, and content and rate of spam are also evaluated. Unintentional spam, or incidents occurring out of ignorance will generally result in a warning. All other incidents of spam will be dealt with by a temporary or permanent mute or a full ban.
Admin announcement exception clause: From time to time an admin will need to inform, or request information from, a large body of forum users. In such cases an admin may at their discretion post a thread in multiple forum locations for official purposes.
General guidelines for determining if a poster is spamming:
1. They have more than 3 consecutive posts in the same thread during a short period of time (allowances are made for server errors.)
2. They have multiple consecutive topics in the same forum in a short period of time
3. They have multiple copies of a single thread in multiple forums. (usually this occurs out of ignorance for the policy and a warning is sufficient to prevent further problems)
X. Karma
If you are rating every post in a thread or a forum, especially in a long thread, up or down, you might be karma camping. The decision is based on an admin review, and we generally take into account the tone of the thread, your past rating history, any user complaints we receive, and how often such incidents occur.
If you are following a specific user around and rating every post they make up or down, you might be karma camping. The decision is based on an admin review of your rating history, their rating history on you (if any), the tone of recent posts you and they made, and if they or you did anything particularly offensive in their posts. If two people want to karma camp each other into oblivion, well that's fine with us.
Threads started in the forum for a group of users to all rate each other up are extremely discouraged.
How this thread has not been locked yet is beyond my comprehension. Not that I'm complaining. In fact this thread has been wonderful for the Lakshmi community and has introduced me to new people like Pud and rdmdontdie among others. I would have never met these people without this thread.
I'm just bringing this up because if I'm going to get moderated for a certain reason (i had it coming), I'm wondering why others get a pass and some don't.