I'm actually on your side in the spam issue, I think that leaving the community to tag spam is probably not going to work super well, but I've chosen not to voice that concern for a number of reasons. Additionally, you probably should be notified when you're tagged as spam so you can fight your own battles. But (Keeping in mind I'm not speaking on behalf of hubski as a whole, and that I wouldn't consider myself any more popular than you are on this site), you seem to really resent a community that you've never talked to before. You could have been a part of the community and made an informed decision as to whether or not you'd like to stick around based on your interactions with us. If you had done that, you'd know that hubski is constantly changing, and that this post is little more than the community trying to define itself and figure out what to do with posters like you--something that I find really interesting to watch. No one hates you, no one is being back-handed or passive-aggressive, we're just trying to figure out where we stand on spam, and what spam is and isn't. As far as I know, this hasn't been discussed to these lengths before now. Your input could be valuable to this process, too, but you'd need to make a case for your side of the argument. That's how hubski works, it takes effort. Think your position through, defend yourself, and discuss. You're questioning whether or not you want to remain in a "community," but it doesn't seem like you've really tried to be a part of it in the first place. I love the type of things that you're posting, I think having you around could be great! I've never followed #rpg before, but I followed it thanks to this post. I'm not asking that you change anything about what you're doing. If that's how you want to run your hubski experience, I think you should be able to do it. But don't write us off as a community so quickly, please. If you want to get mad, I don't blame you, but try to understand the machinations at work on a site like hubski, and don't call us all pompous jerks for being indecisive about your type of account. Everyone can feel free to disagree with me however much they want on this post, I might be totally out of line here. Just my two cents.
So providing content isn't "interacting"? Any member of the community could've interacted with me as well at anytime. Non-interaction is not the fault of any one party. Plus, every time I see (or hear) "community" being thrown around it's simply the shield behind which those pompous jerks like to hide.
Providing content can count as interaction, but you have to understand where the line is blurred between self-promotion and spam. We're just trying to figure out how we define that. Like I tried to say in my last comment, hubski is a user-moderated space. You can't get mad that the users are trying to moderate. That's how this website functions, and I'd say that it works pretty damn well most of the time.
No there isn't spam is useless crap or purely advertisement with no real value or relation to its tags. Self-promotion would only become spam when it becomes obnoxious and impossible to avoid. And yes I can, those "moderators" need to think before they act with at least the minutest amount of intelligence.
Dude, I'm saying that your content is not spam. It should not have been marked as spam. You are not a spammer. I'm saying that it, in many ways, resembles the SEO spam that we've been having problems with recently. If you want to change the way things happen on hubski, insulting people is not the way to achieve this. I'm sorry if you've been offended by anything that happened on this post, but this is a thread full of people discussing your issue, plenty of them in support of you. If you want to change the site, discuss rather than deride. If you don't want to change the site, stop complaining.
I haven't directly insulted anyone that doesn't need to be insulted. No, I will not stop complaining and trying to attach motives to me without any implication on my part IS offensive.