I guess it has changed over the years.
In the early days of the internet (particularly on Usenet) It was generally a term for describing posts most people would describe as utterly worthless but yet consuming, "bandwidth." This is in keeping with the canned meat product infamous for packing extraordinary calories while providing no nutritional benefits at all.
Bandwidth was important in those early days because there wasn't a lot of it available. Some idiot posting nonsense was slowing access to someone posting meaningful content. This was in the day when most people were accessing the internet through 28.8K telephone MODEMS or even less. So the term, "spam" was coined to discourage users from posting crap which only served to slow everyone else's access while contributing nothing.
Today, "bandwidth" is rarely an issue - especially on discussion forums like this one. Some moron posting absolute crap will not impede access to someone posting meaningful content because there is plenty of "bandwidth" available to everyone.
So, "spam" seems to now be re-defined to only include unsolicited offerings of entrepreneurs offering such fine products as penis enlargers.
Now, there is tolerance of immature people posting CRAP that not only offers nothing of value to anyone looking for serious discussion but forces them to filter through multiple posts and threads of absolute GARBAGE!
Where there used to be multitudes of discussion boards like this one, there are now thousands of FUCKING Facebook groups!
Does anyone here see the value of restricting dedicated discussion forums like this one to serious posters and let the children post on Facebook? Maybe that way, we can distinguish ourselves as serious forums dedicated to serious content? Otherwise, why not just post on Facebook groups?
I believe dedicated discussion groups like this one are very valuable but ONLY if they distinguish themselves as apart from the people who most wish to discuss such minutia as who's sleeping with who. How else are we to distinguish ourselves? How do we not otherwise become irrelevant? If we are not different (better) than a Facebook group, why would anyone pay attention to us?
Food for thought.
In the early days of the internet (particularly on Usenet) It was generally a term for describing posts most people would describe as utterly worthless but yet consuming, "bandwidth." This is in keeping with the canned meat product infamous for packing extraordinary calories while providing no nutritional benefits at all.
Bandwidth was important in those early days because there wasn't a lot of it available. Some idiot posting nonsense was slowing access to someone posting meaningful content. This was in the day when most people were accessing the internet through 28.8K telephone MODEMS or even less. So the term, "spam" was coined to discourage users from posting crap which only served to slow everyone else's access while contributing nothing.
Today, "bandwidth" is rarely an issue - especially on discussion forums like this one. Some moron posting absolute crap will not impede access to someone posting meaningful content because there is plenty of "bandwidth" available to everyone.
So, "spam" seems to now be re-defined to only include unsolicited offerings of entrepreneurs offering such fine products as penis enlargers.
Now, there is tolerance of immature people posting CRAP that not only offers nothing of value to anyone looking for serious discussion but forces them to filter through multiple posts and threads of absolute GARBAGE!
Where there used to be multitudes of discussion boards like this one, there are now thousands of FUCKING Facebook groups!
Does anyone here see the value of restricting dedicated discussion forums like this one to serious posters and let the children post on Facebook? Maybe that way, we can distinguish ourselves as serious forums dedicated to serious content? Otherwise, why not just post on Facebook groups?
I believe dedicated discussion groups like this one are very valuable but ONLY if they distinguish themselves as apart from the people who most wish to discuss such minutia as who's sleeping with who. How else are we to distinguish ourselves? How do we not otherwise become irrelevant? If we are not different (better) than a Facebook group, why would anyone pay attention to us?
Food for thought.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
