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What exactly constitutes spamming? I totally understand if too many .gifs were causing a problem, but the terms "spam" and "off-topic" were used by the moderator. So. I am curious. Because they could have easily have said TOO MANY .gifs! I'm drowning!! And that would've been fine. Understandable. Easily done.
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This is purely theoretical on my half, so I could be wrong, but I was thinking about this and looking back to the posts just before the warning came and it was, as you say, gifs and pictures of punk rock(I don't know the genre, guys with big hair and makeup). A mod isn't going to have time to sift through all the posts and read the reasonings behind them all, they're just going to see the pictures and say "Off-topic". Even though those who were posting them weren't being off-topic (it was regarding glitterotica, right? Elven pantheon anyway, still technically on-topic).
If what I think is true, it's still unfair, but understandable.
Also I was going back through the mods comments after I saw the warning, and it seems the Blackwall thread recieved a similar warning. What this could mean, I don't know however. Just thought I'd share. It's painfully obvious we are being watched. 