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It looked like he was advertising a movie. There's nothing more or less to my reaction. It has nothing to do with the content or subject of the movie. His post simply looked like an unsolicited ad, and I told him so in my response to his post. I would have told him in a peer message but he doesn't accept them.

Oh, and besides me, Boxy, and whoever pushed the button, the PTBs (Tammy?) apparently thought it was spam too.

Edited - I'm willing to take your word that it was tagged as off-topic. I haven't trained my eyes to look for the tags. Until the recent update the tags were in a smaller font and I never noticed them. They're bigger now and I don't have that excuse any more. I'll try to remember to check for them.

Let's look at your copy of the original post. Specifically, look at the first line, "Girl Films presents Lakai - Fully Flared". Tell me that doesn't sound like a porn film. Four barely explained links and no comments from the OP, who is a relatively new member. The first scene features a shirtless man. The second shot of him has the upper part of his torso and head in an almost diseased green color. My canned pork detector went off.

Regardless, the button was pushed before I got there.

dang it all, make a new post, not change the old one!

I am not trying to dump on you for this, or specifically standing up for the OP. I just see there not being a lot of difference between his post and a lot of the normal discussions we have, regardless of politics, religion, evolution, global cooling/warming/climate shifts, carrot cake, music, weekly rants, or whatever the off-topic discussion you wish to look at.

If he had said more instead just posting links I wouldn't have thought it was spam. Maybe a title like "Any skaters here?" (or even "Ny sk8rs?". Maybe some comments like, "For you non-skaters, Lakai is ...", or "There's a great move about two minutes into part two I'm trying to duplicate", or "I make my own boards and attach <insert brand name here> trucks and wheels." Maybe if he'd posted any comments at all and not just four links. The complete lack of posted comments or content definitely gave the post a porcine scent.

The other off-topic discussions rarely start with only a few cold links and no background information, opinion, or comment from the OP.

What I do know is that she DOES try to be fair. And she's new in this role. That may mean that there is some growing pain. But Beth went through that too. I recall clearly someone marking one of Neil's discussions as spam even though it wasn't and Beth pulled the thread.

I think that there are some changes coming and while I agree completely that communicating with the community is something that TR should get better at, so far that message hasn't traveled as far or as clearly as it should. That said, I am all for cutting Tammy some slack until she understands us a bit better.

It would seem that at least three people took exception to that thread and that MIGHT have been the deciding factor. I don't know that to be true but it does seem likely to me.

Did I mention I never closed that discussion down?

It wasn't me either. <nt> NEW

That was boxies post, that it wasn't her that marked it as spam.

And I posted at the start of this the original discussion, and as you can see, there is nothing spamish about it.

I think you know I am always fair with TPTB, and appreciate what it is they do. I think I am still being fair, and that if there is going to be new rules, it is fair to ask about them. (since no one is offering to inform us)