Here are rules for Cricket Chat on what is spam and what isn't to clear up any confusion members may have on this issue.
Spam is defined as anything that is irrelevant to the thread in question. Therefore quality discussion of who should open the batting for Australia would be classed as spam if it was in the England/Pakistan thread and not the Australia/England thread. In the cricket chat threads scores which simply give a score update without any comment or a meaningless description would be classed as spam:
e.g.
These could be made into meaningful posts if thoughtful analysis or opinion was added:
e.g.
Off-topic asides: sometimes members may wish to discuss an aspect of the game that is not stricly related to the thread title. As long as this is done with the content of an on-topic and relevant post it won't be treated as spam.
Spam:
Not spam:
We don't expect members to produce top quality posts everytime and we want to encourage discussion but we hope this will help members understand what sort of posts moderators are going to be deleting.
Spam is defined as anything that is irrelevant to the thread in question. Therefore quality discussion of who should open the batting for Australia would be classed as spam if it was in the England/Pakistan thread and not the Australia/England thread. In the cricket chat threads scores which simply give a score update without any comment or a meaningless description would be classed as spam:
e.g.
These could be made into meaningful posts if thoughtful analysis or opinion was added:
e.g.
Off-topic asides: sometimes members may wish to discuss an aspect of the game that is not stricly related to the thread title. As long as this is done with the content of an on-topic and relevant post it won't be treated as spam.
Spam:
Not spam:
We don't expect members to produce top quality posts everytime and we want to encourage discussion but we hope this will help members understand what sort of posts moderators are going to be deleting.
