Discussion over moderation of spam (moved)

[bovi]

To be precise, I thought the posts moved here had sufficiently derailed the thread they were in to warrant a split, so the original thread could continue in its purpose. I didn't close it and have no intention of it. I said that any further discussion could be taken by PM, it was disregarded (not by Maion) and a fair number of posts came in reply, so I moved the whole discussion here to a new thread as there was obviously a wish to discuss it and I do not want to censor it.

Maion's post was the first one to concern this, and the meaning of the rest would be lost without it as a reference. I also edited his post to reflect what I did. I don't know how I could possibly change the author of the first post.