Personally, I think that if spam were TRULY discouraged here, we wouldn't have a star rating system. I mean, come on, guys! We're a bunch of RPG-ers here. It positively smacks of "leveling up." You can't dangle a carrot like that in front of gamers and then expect them not to go for it! So all this whining about "do not spam, do not spam" simply does NOT impress me.