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Riiiiight! Now I get it!
Spam is anything thats not deemed worthy of discussion!
Now offensive posting I'm with you there but surely its a little "Police state" to actually have a go at people for not posting within topic?
Salsa is my other passion! I find that the Salsa stops me putting on the extra inches in the bum area (or is it "but" or "fanny" in America.. I won't even tell you what fanny means in the UK!!!!) that gaming can produce! So although I'm new to thid forum I have posted for years on Salsa forums... I have never once seen advice or guidance concerning how and what (or rather what not) to post... ever! Most just have a few lines at the top of the log-in box like "No liablous, hurtful, racist, sexist or abusive posting. Offenders post's will be removed and their registration revoked" Unless its SalsaMAFIA where by anything goes!
You guys take this pretty seriously huh?
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No it's not a little "police state". The idea of a topic is to post stuff related to that topic. The reason some forums don't point this out, is because they assume you are a reasonable person, and already know.
For instance, rather than posting something about your new kitten in a thread entitled "Top Ten Games", start a new thread, entitle it "My new kitten" and post your info there. That's what the "post new topic" button is for.
The general aim of a discussion forum, is to catagorise debates according to their subject matter. This enables someone to cruise the forum, find a debate topic that interests them, and post in it.
BUT if you go posting your off topic stuff in a topic about say, microchips, then people will no longer be able to judge the content by its title - therefore you would be selfishly denying others rights to a debate about microchips. You would turn the discussion into something that it's not.