Ah good nobody died *phew*. Well now...
Firstly I think a 50% warn right of the bat
is a bit much, especially for just plain spam. I know there has been a long-running issue with spam on the forums but that still doesn't mean there aren't worse things that are more important to deal with like trolling/flaming/general unnicery.
I haven't seen where Jacob has been flaming newbies (at least any more than usual) and certainly not in the main CS section, unless I've selectively missed something >_> Looking through his most recent posts reveals nothing either.
Trolling is also an entirely intention-based action (it's not like somebody can 'accidentally' troll), and unfortunately I wasn't, so deal with it.
Too much change can be bad but seeing as the current state of change at this stage is "basically none at all" I fail to see how that can possibly equate to "too much". In order for change to take place things have to actually, you know, CHANGE first.
I'm not entirely sure how possible it is to actually be off-topic in this thread since it's basically an imagespam thread anyway without any real premise.
The difficulty with spam at the moment is that one spam post is made and then suddenly everybody seems to think it's okay to spam in the thread, and as I said earlier, a bunch of users seem to think that spamming in this forum is their god-given right or something. It's okay to go a bit off-topic for fun sometimes as has already been discussed and pretty much universally agreed on, but some of this shit just isn't necessary and simply isn't amusing or enjoyable to read. If the spam is to be good-natured and funny then it needs to not be bad-natured and shitty/stupid. Not every post that is off-topic or a bit short needs to be jumped on.
Although I agree that SP should be a bit clearer in what's allowed and what isn't. Handing out a bunch of spam warnings isn't going to solve things, what needs to be targeted is the root of the problem. And oh gee I wonder what that would be ^_______________^
Now seeing as intelligent posts are off-topic in this thread I'm gonna shush up