An outrageously vague term. Especially for this website. So with this blog, I will attempt to categorize every type of spam and address the issue as a whole. Why? Well, in addition to the fun of it, to point out the irrationality in such behavior.

Mail spam
SDKMail messages, mean-spirited or not, which are meant to clutter the inbox of a user. Though not publicly detrimental, it is personally frustrating.

Comment spam
Overloading a profile or blog (or even group) with comments. Before profiles' messages were improved to show only the last ten, this was sometimes a method of spite and occasionally amusement. More often, it is used by users on their own profiles and blogs to bogusly raise their Awesome level. Truly a nightmare for profile admins. Now that most profile comments are hidden, this spam form can be quite difficult to spot, even by seasoned profile surfers.

Blog spam
Either creating blogs of outrageously short length and of little significance, or copying and pasting often obscure things from external websites. May also include blogs used only for formatting one's profile. An easy, yet quickly detectable way to increase one's Awesomeness level. A related type of spam involves falsely creating blog views to increase personal popularity and/or status.

BB spam
Comprised of one of the following: creating duplicate threads (usually the fruit of not thread-searching), creating useless threads like ones made solely for spam, posting the same message repeatedly by submitting it so, or posting largely dud/redundant/lock/chat/one-up messages on a large quantity of threads. Very common, and almost always solely committed to raise one's ever-popular bulletin board post count.

Chatroom spam
Simply the use of excessive and/or repetitious caps, characters, or commands in chat messages for a variety of reasons. Annoying for users properly using the chats.

Paint spam
As paint contributes largely to one's Awesomeness level and Savii point count, users will sometimes repeatedly save the same painting over and over, neglect to delete preliminary stages of their work, and of course paint/write absolutely ridiculous images in mass quantities.

Spriter spam
Use of the spriter to save sprites in large numbers to fraudulently amass huge quantities of Savii points. As this detracts from website revenue, it is strictly punished. A common cheat, a common cure.

Game show spam
Refers to several things. Though uncommon, sometimes submitted into the answer box to distract the game show host and prevent him/her from properly reading answers and awarding game points. Also can mean dud game shows which are never used.

Savii spam
Creation of countless Saviis to greatly increase one's Savii point count.

Poll spam
Repeatedly answering the website poll. Causes inaccurate poll tallies and results.


And there. You have it. Now you know what spam is. And if you already did, now you know more. If you've spammed before, hopefully you can laugh at your past mistakes. If you are a new user and think that this blog could be quite -heh- useful to benefit your level or Savii point count, read on.

So onto my main point--

Spam is bad.

Alright, alright, there's more. But wasn't that the main gist of this blog? Maybe I should like underline and bold that text up there. Well, to elaborate for the sake of elaborating, spam creates accessibility, data, viewing, spacial, convenience, truthfulness, lucrative, and personal problems for everyone: the overlords, the admins, everyone else, and obviously you. Because you'll get into trouble. So spam should never be seen as "efficient" or "convenient" or even "having fun" because it's not being fair to the community. In other words, it's just plain selfish. So don't do it. Don't spam.

Take it from myself, whose account got perma-banned for Savii point fraud. The glory of being at the top of spam kingdom is fake and short-lived. It does not go unheeded. Your actions are more visible than you think and can never be truly "undone." Regulation exists. Mind yourself.

*sigh* It's so much easier to do something than not do something, isn't it? Hopefully I'm addressing the majority of SDK users who want to increase their Levels of Awesomeness. That's a fine goal, but do it naturally. It's no race to see who can get whose level up higher, so just calm down and have fun here. And it honestly boils down to that old adage of respecting others and being responsible for one's actions.

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I'll likely be submitting this blog to be featured solely for the need for a message to be out there, not for how outrageous the blog is, not for making a mountain out of a molehill, or jealousy, or ego, or impressing you, or even for my past run-ins with the issue. But whether or not it does get accepted, I will get the message out in some way or another. I can never hope for even a quarter of the users on the website to ever view this blog, but I can try. If spam on this website even decreases by a single user, then I'll have done something. I will never ignore this often overlooked issue. Thanks for reading this painfully long and potentially confusing blog. I did eat a whole bag of pixie sticks beforehand and my head hurts.

-Limxzero, rambling master