What Constitutes Spam
Friday, October 28, 2011 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Spam is 'unsolicited advertising'.
That's the general/accepted terminology for the definition of spam.
On Stardock's skinning site - Wincustomize.com that excludes 'all' threads relating to skinning programs and their promotion, as they are specific to our 'game'.
Someone promoting their new Windowblinds skin release...whether a premium [paid-for] or freely released skin is NOT spam.
Someone linking to an off-site skinnable [such as the recent Gaia skin] is NOT spam. [its removal was due to other issues].
What 'appears' to be advertising, if it originates from legitimate sources [Stardock's Moderators/Admins] is also not spam. It is social communication to fellow members who may be interested and thus benefit from this communication.
No matter the source/origins what you see on the site will always be 'policed content', and typically verified for safety/security prior to its posting.
REAL spam is removed. as are its authors.
You, as a site member/contributor can feel safe that anything posted publicly is NOT detrimental to your well-being and/or site enjoyment.
That's why we are here...
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Reply #22 Friday, October 28, 2011 7:05 PM
Varieties of Spam include Spam Classic, Spam Hot & Spicy, Spam Less Sodium, Spam Lite, Spam Oven Roasted Turkey, Hickory Smoked, Spam with real Hormel Bacon, Spam with Cheese, Spam Black Pepper, Spam Garlic, and Spam Spread.[3] Availability of these varieties varies regionally.
Now you know.
Well, someone had to do it.
Ok, I did. He is pissed. He'll be ok in a while. 
Reply #23 Friday, October 28, 2011 7:08 PM
Pretty much reporting one will do as we check the spammer for other forum posts and comments.
Great question Dave, good answer, Hankers. It's nice to know you can kill them all with just one shot!
Reply #24 Friday, October 28, 2011 7:50 PM
Wow interesting thread. All this cause of the nice colorful earth friendly Gaia10? The person who posted that thread was ME aka "NOT a SPAMER EVAR" and all I wanted to do was show/share their cause and how nice it looked since they even supported Windowblinds by having a skin made for that software. Plenty of choices offered by Gaia10 websites supporting many products. It was in no way spam. I haven't been active member here but since i saw all these new Stardock goodies coming up, i got back into the skinning. I never new they had a faulty mod installer. My apologies, but there are always risk with any software. I am also very discouraged to even post anything now about any skin found outside this website. That's how I feel now after coming back to Wincostumize.com.
Reply #25 Friday, October 28, 2011 7:55 PM
A tad more complicated than that, Wiz... but if I told you.... well, you know the rest. 
*Jafo guards the secret button zealously.
Rood, no need. That's why there are Gallery Mods here who do a seriously excellent job in their judging as well as what they do to protect us all. No one ever thinks about that aspect of their work, so maybe it was a "silver lining" event in a way. Now people seeing and reading this will have a greater appreciation of what they do, day after day... year after year.
It also serves to illustrate why WC is so special and so safe... heck, even the grammar is Moderated.
Don't you wish other places were this safe?
Reply #26 Saturday, October 29, 2011 1:06 AM
Oh, for a good old pork pie... with that scrummy aspic. 
Sadly, the good old English style pork pie is as rare as rocking horse manure here in Oz, and when you actually find one it's as expensive as hell.
There is a pie shop not too far from me, and the regular Aussie style meat pies are around $5.00 - $6.00... their English style pork pies [made in Oz but to old English recipe] $9.50. They don't sell too many... and no wonder. I mean, who in their right mind would pay that for a bit of [less than prime-cut] pork wrapped in pastry? Even their regular pies are way over priced IMHO... like I can make a half a dozen just as good at home for that price... and I do. Pork pies at home, though, not quite as easy to get right.
As for spammers.... crush their gonads under ID's hammer. 
Reply #27 Monday, October 31, 2011 2:42 PM
I hate spam - vile stuff.
Pork Pie is much better. Not the commercial mass produced ones but the traditional variety. Mmmmm!
I'm partial to a bit of corned beef too...
Reply #28 Monday, October 31, 2011 8:41 PM
Haven't had one of those in donkeys years.... like about '69 would have been the last really, really decent one I had... at the Black Horse Inn with a pint or 3 of Whitbread Tankard... or Trophy, cos it were threepence cheaper. Yeah, I know, I was only 16! But I was a big lad for my age.... and I could down 8 - 10 pints [scrumpy included] before I started getting legless... so they thought I was a seasoned drinker and older.
As for the commercial, mass produced ones, yeah, we get those here. A few places import them, but they're small and quite expensive... gone in a couple of man-sized bites and nowhere near value for money... hence they stay on the supermarket shelf. The locally produced ones, nah, they're just not the same, like there's something missing while something non-traditional has been added, and I'm not overly fussed on them
There was a place a few years back where we could get a very close to an authentic pork pie, and that was the Britannia Inn, which popped up in Brisbane after the World Expo in '88, but alas, that is now gone, along with its traditional English cooking and imported English beers. Ah, the memories... you can get the lad out of England, but you can't get England out of the lad. I still make and enjoy the traditional roast beef and Yorkshire pud.
Reply #29 Tuesday, November 1, 2011 7:01 AM
Here's hoping the actual MEANING of this thread sank in.....
....prior to it going AWOL.
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Reply #21 Friday, October 28, 2011 7:02 PM
I love the jelly stuff around the outside.. mmmm.. love to throw it in the fridge for a bit so it solidifies.. YUM !
Same kinda jelly that's on the inside of a pork pie !!
MMMMMMMMM!!! Tasteh!