Fine, I'll refute your petty argument.
You're saying that if a post in Spam was made anywhere else, it would be deleted and post count would drop. That makes sense.
But if I posted a topic about StarCraft II in community speak, and whether by accident or purpose it was deleted instead of moved to the Gaming forum, and the post count was dropped, it would be the exact same issue.
Posting a spam topic in Community Speak, which was moved to Spam would be fine, and the post could should could there because that is the ONLY PURPOSE of that forum.
Just like the gaming board's ONLY PURPOSE is to contain topics on the subject of gaming.
Would you agree with this statement?
Oh, something else I forgot to mention. If gaming was posted in a board other than gaming, the idealistic response by moderation would be its deletion due to it not conforming to the community rules. This would process would be best described for the post count as being incremented by one and then decreased by one resulting in zero. Technically, a post count by your definition is how many times you posted, but how come deleting a post removes from that count? In my opinion, since in gaming the posts are allowed to not be deleted as they are given a place to exist and since if they were not there your post count would not be incremented by posting them, not incrementing the post count is acceptable due to the visibility of their existence.
I rest my !@#$% case.
I like how you are putting down my arguments simply because you do not agree with them. By the Community Rules and Regulations, a user is asked to post in the correct board category as best they can. It also says that spam will not be tolerated. Posts other than spam will be considered to be moved and will never be deleted (I cannot remember a case where they were), but since spam is not tolerated globally,
There have been instances where a post has been moved out of spam because it was too serious. This local to global move is alright as it qualifies to exist there. Global to local though is something else. Spam idealistically is just considered to be deleted because it does not live up to the global rules. If it were moved there, then it does not really get users into the mindset to just post it there originally.
Spam is not something that was wanted here, we just allow it to exist. Like Andrew said, boards that not everyone can see should not be counted into the statistics by his argument, and that ties in here too.
