*DELETED*

[Graeme Dice]

Wade said:
Also, "spammy" should mean some thing repeated over and over.
My post was just giving information in a professional advertisement way.

That's right. It was an advertisement, which makes it clearly bad form. Why are you coming here and expecting people to support you in your blatant attempt to troll/spam?

[Renegade 13]

[stoner voice]
Hey man, can't we all just, you know, take it easy and chill out on the negative vibes here? *cough, cough* *uses hands to wave away bluish smoke* *cough, cough* Let's just all be like one happy family, man!
[/stoner voice]

Sorry, I just wanted to do that!

[StarShadow]

Is that you Zaphod? Oh...my....god...WHAT did you do to Marvin???

[Yimboli]

Galciv2 was fun for about 2 months. SE4 is still fun 5 years later. That's all that matters to me - if Frogboy's forum microcosm is naive, I'm fine with that. But I don't view this as us vs. them. I agree with Puke - "the more successfull each one is, the better for both."

I echo Graeme Dice's comment... but add that while your heart is in the right place, your method needs refinement. SE should be celebrated, and I'd like to see it spread around some more to a wider user base. So I slip in a post about SE every now and then on the galciv forums, but yours was too much. Space Empires forum-goers are above flamboyance.

There are more constructive ways. Please let this go and chalk it up to lessons learned =)

[capnq]

Wade said:Also, "spammy" should mean some thing repeated over and over.

I think posting a large chunk of the the contents of a link that you just recommended counts as repetitive.

Here are the feature lists from www.malfador.com.

Us geezers who can remember when the "high speed" setting on their modem was 1200 bps would consider everything from the above quoted line on as a waste of bandwidth.

[geoschmo]

I think the problem was your post sounded too much like an ad. If you had made a similer post here about another game it probably would get deleted too. At the least you'd get some wet noodle lashes from the moderators, depending on our mood and whether you were a regular poster here. If someone registered and that was their first post we'd almost definetly consider it spam and chunk it.

It's not a fear of competition, it just makes good business sense. If you made a post that sounded more like a regular fan that was just expressing an opinion about another game or asking what other people thought, we wouldn't think twice about it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

First modem was 300 baud.