No.
I totally faked you out there, didn't ? I'm so good at getting people into my threads by posting sensationalist titles.
I noticed that both my Makkon appreciation thread and the Jackle App promotion thread eventually devolved into a discussion of spam, which was not the intended topic of either. So this thread is for discussing the topic head-on and sharing our thoughts. Do so here.
Makkon's qualms seem to be
--We're not being a constructive music-centered community
--We're being cliquey.
Both of these are related to spam, but I think one question we need to address is where exactly does something begin being spam? In the News and Feedback thread, I-Pie, myself, and Glaze made a little joke that took up three posts. No big deal; I wouldn't quite call that spam, since we weren't derailing the thread; we were making a point (that the lake of tildes was on Circuit's side, not MLR's), albeit in a slightly silly way.
Two users immediately jumped in and basically went "OMG SPAM OMG GUYS STOP SPAMMING." At this point, these users had indeed derailed the thread from its topic, and had eaten up almost as many posts are our "spam". Honestly, it was just a little bit of isolated silliness. If we had gone on for a page in a half, then yes, it would have been spam. But the problem here was more caused by people who were ALARMED BY SPAM than by anyone actually spamming.
Evidently, spam's on everyone's mind. That's why we're here to discuss it.
So here's a question: what makes my Dwarf Fortress thread /not/ spam? It has absolutely nothing to do with music, and it is indeed a bit cliquey (although it doesn't have to be, everyone is free and encouraged to post in it).
This isn't a rhetorical question, or an accusatory one. What quality does this thread have that Makkon didn't descend on it like an angelic avenger of justice?
On the subject of clique-age, yes, it is indeed a bit of a problem. I have no idea how to address this issue. But I'd rather have an actively participating cliqueish community than see this board utterly dead and disengaged.
If Makkon wants us to post more constructively, then appointing Jackle App as a mod is not the answer (even though Jackle App goes with modship like bread with butter or Applejack with Rainbow Dash). That might make us cut down on all this alleged spam (I'm going to reiterate that alarmism about spam is now causing more trouble than the spam itself, which seems in my eyes to be winding down somewhat), but it isn't going to make us a model community that engages everyone. That's going to take something different.
TL;DR this is a thread for discussing spam issues. Not Jackle's moderator appointment thread, not anywhere else.
>inb4 someone just reads the thread title and jumps to conclusions without reading this post